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The Piano Sonata No.5, Op. 53, is work written by Alexander Scriabin in 1907. This was his first sonata to be written in one movement, a format he retained from then on. A typical performance lasts from 11 to 12 minutes. ==Composition== After finishing his symphonic poem ''Le Poème de l'Extase'', Op.54, Scriabin did not feel comfortable living in Paris. In early September 1907 he wrote: "Life is fearfully expensive, and the climate is rotten. The air in the areas where we could find an apartment big enough for us at a reasonable price is frightful () you cannot make any noise. You have to wear house slippers after 10 at night."〔Letter to Morozova, early September 1907.〕 Scriabin decided to go to live in Lausanne with his pregnant wife Tatyana,〔She would give birth to their son Julian in February 1908.〕 since he found the place to be cheaper, quieter, and healthier, and only 7 hours away from Paris. Also, he had his music being printed there, as he had recently broken his long-term partnership with publisher M.P. Belaieff due to financial discrepancies.〔Faubion Bowers: Scriabin, a Biography, second edition. 1996. Pages 174 and following.〕 In his new peaceful household in ''Edifice C Place de la Harpe'',〔Nowadays Avenue de la Harpe 14.〕 Scriabin could play the piano without fear of complaints from neighbours, and soon began to compose again, alongside the revisions he was making to the score of ''Le Poème''. On 8 December, Tatyana wrote to a friend:
On late December, Scriabin wrote to Morozova about the imminent completion of his new work: "The Poem of Ecstasy took much of my strength and taxed my patience. () Today I have almost finished my 5th Sonata. It is a big poem for piano and I deem it the best composition I have ever written. I do not know by what miracle I accomplished it ()."〔Letter to Morozova, late December 1907.〕 Although the actual writing took only six days, from 8 to 14 December 1907, some ideas had been conceived much earlier. The initial nine bars of the first theme of the exposition, ''Presto con allegrezza'' (mm. 47 ff.), can be found in a notebook from 1905-1906, when Scriabin was in Chicago.〔According to Bowers, this theme is related to the piece "Fragilité," Op.51 No.1, which acts as a preliminary study.〕 Another notebook from 1906 contains the ''Imperioso'' theme (mm. 96 ff.), while elements from the ''Meno vivo'' (mm. 120 ff.) can also be made out, as well as sketched-out passages for a few other sections.〔〔Valentina Rubcova, Preface to the Henle Urtext Edition, 2011.〕〔Known sketches according to Rubcova: Three leaves in two different notebooks from the years 1905 and 1906. Moscow, Glinka-Museum, Fond 31, nos. 92 and 93. Two leaves, probably from the year 1907. Moscow, Glinka-Museum, Fond 31, no. 21〕 Scriabin included an epigraph to this sonata, extracted from his essay ''Le Poème de l'Extase'':〔Not to be confused with his Symphony No. 4 "Poem of Ecstasy", Op. 54.〕 :Original Russian text :''Я к жизни призываю вас, скрытые стремленья!'' :''Вы, утонувшие в темных глубинах'' :''Духа творящего, вы, боязливые'' :''Жизни зародыши, вам дерзновенье приношу!'' :Original French translation :''Je vous appelle à la vie, ô forces mysterieuses!'' :''Noyées dans les obscures profondeurs'' :''De l’esprit créateur, craintives'' :''Ebauches de vie, à vous j’apporte l’audace!'' :English translation :''I call you to life, oh mysterious forces!'' :''Drowned in the obscure depths'' :''Of the creative spirit, timid'' :''Shadows of life, to you I bring audacity!''〔Translation from: Güntehr Philipp: A. Skrjabin, Ausgewählte Klavierwerke, Vol.5 Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1971, Plate E.P. 12588.〕 Five months after its completion, Scriabin published the work himself in Lausanne, producing an edition with 300 copies.〔 He later gave the autograph as a present to his pupil Alfred La Liberté. In 1971 the pianist’s widow gave the manuscript, along with various other documents, to the Scriabin Museum.〔 The work was premiered on 18 November 1908 in Moscow by pianist Mark Meitschik.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piano Sonata No. 5 (Scriabin)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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