List of compositions by Alexander Scriabin

This is a list of compositions by Alexander Scriabin.

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin

The list is categorized by Genre, with Piano works organized by style of piece. The list can be sorted by Opus number and WoO number (mostly early works published posthumously) and Anh number (mostly fragmentary works), by clicking on the "Opus" header of the table. Sorted in this Opus/WoO/Anh order, duplicate entries (those listed initially under more than one genre) are moved to the bottom of the list with the unused genre headers.

The majority of Scriabin's works have opus numbers. His work can be divided into three (somewhat arbitrary) periods, based on increasing atonality: early, 1883–1902 (Opp. 1–29); middle, 1903–1909 (Opp. 30–58); and late, 1910–1915 (Opp. 59–74). The development of Scriabin's style can be traced in his ten published sonatas for piano. The first four are in the Romantic style. Initially the music is reminiscent of Chopin, but Scriabin's unique voice, present from the beginning, becomes fully present even in these early pieces. With the fourth and fifth sonatas, Scriabin explored more complex, chromatic harmonies. Each of the following sonatas are often highly dissonant and have a new form of tonality that some describe as atonal and others describe as simply different from conventional tonality. Vers la flamme was intended to be the eleventh sonata, but he was forced to publish it early due to financial concerns. Most of Scriabin's sonatas consist of only a single movement; the first and third are the only ones with multiple movements typical of the sonata form.

List of compositions

Opus	Title	Scoring	Date	Notes
Orchestral works
	Rondo	orchestra	1883–87	no details available
A18	Scherzo in F major	string orchestra	1888 (1889?)	fragment; reconstructed by Daniel Bosshard 1987 as 2nd mvt. of "Andante and Scherzo" with Anh 20
20	Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor	piano & orchestra	1896
W24	Symphonic Allegro in D minor	orchestra	1896(–97?)	unfinished; possibly intended as a movement of a symphony; completed by Alexander Gauk 1949 as "Symphonic Poem in D minor", recorded by Boris Demchenko (cond), released Melodiya LP 1972, CD 1993; also arranged for piano solo by Leonid Sabaneyev as Poème (en forme d'une sonate) published 1926 as No. 2 of 2 Oeuvres posthumes with his piano solo arrangement of Fantaisie, WoO 18; also arranged for piano solo by Nikolai Zhilyayev published 1928
24	Rêverie	orchestra	1898	also arranged for piano four-hands by Alexander Winkler at the request of Scriabin, published 1899
A20	Andante in A major	string orchestra	1899	fragment; reconstructed by Daniel Bosshard 1987 as 1st mvt. of "Andante and Scherzo" with Anh 18
26	Symphony No. 1 in E major	orchestra, with chorus and soloists	1900	also arranged for piano four-hands by Alexander Winkler at the request of Scriabin, published 1900
29	Symphony No. 2 in C minor	orchestra	1902	also arranged for piano four-hands by Vasily Kalafati at the request of Scriabin, published 1903
43	Le divin poème (The Divine Poem), Symphony No. 3 in C minor	orchestra	1903	also arranged for piano four-hands by Lev Konyus (Léon Conus) at the request of Scriabin, published 1905
54	Le Poème de l'extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), (Symphony No. 4)	orchestra	1907	also arranged for 2 pianos by Lev Konyus (Léon Conus) at the request of Scriabin, published 1908
60	Prométhée, Le Poème du feu (Prometheus, The Poem of Fire), (Symphony No. 5)	orchestra, with piano, organ, clavier à lumières, and chorus	1910	also arranged for 2 pianos by Leonid Sabaneyev at the request of Scriabin, published 1913
Piano works
Album Leaves
W17	Feuillet d'Album de Monighetti (Album Leaf for O. I. Monighetti) in A-flat major (Monighetti's Album Leaf)	piano	1889	published 1947
45#1	Feuillet d'album (Album Leaf) in E-flat major, No. 1 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 45	piano	1904
W25	Feuillet d'Album (Album Leaf) in F-sharp major	piano	1905	published 1905
58	Feuillet d'Album (Album Leaf)	piano	1910
Dances
51#4	Danse languide (Languid Dance), No. 4 from 4 Morceaux, Op. 51	piano	1906
57#2	Caresse dansée (Dancing Caress), No. 2 from 2 Morceaux, Op. 57	piano	1908
73	2 Danses Guirlandes (Garlands) Flammes sombres (Dark flames)	piano	1914
Etudes
A8	Étude in D-flat major	piano	1887	fragment only
A9	Étude in F-sharp major	piano	1887?	fragment only
2#1	Étude in C-sharp minor, No. 1 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 2	piano	1887
W22	Étude in D-sharp minor	piano	1894	intended as No. 12 of 12 Études, Op. 8, but discarded; published 1947
8	12 Études C-sharp major F-sharp minor B minor B major E major A major B-flat minor A-flat major G-sharp minor D-flat major B-flat minor D-sharp minor	piano	1894
42	8 Études D-flat major F-sharp minor F-sharp major F-sharp major C-sharp minor D-flat major F minor E-flat major	piano	1903
49#1	Étude in E-flat major, No. 1 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 49	piano	1905
56#4	Étude, No. 4 from 4 Pièces, Op. 56	piano	1908
65	3 Études (Allegro fantastico) (Allegretto) (Molto vivace)	piano	1911–12
Fantasies
W6	Sonate-Fantaisie (Sonata-Fantasy) in G-sharp minor	piano	1886	published 1940
W18	Fantaisie in A minor	2 pianos	1892–93	many catalogues and publications date this 1889, but the unpublished manuscript is dated Dec 1892 – Jan 1893; intended for piano & orchestra, the 2nd piano part is clearly an orchestral reduction, while the 1st piano is clearly the soloist; however, it is not clear if this is the original working version to be later orchestrated, or a reduction from a now-lost orchestral score; if the latter, the lost orchestral score might be the version composed in 1889; 2nd piano part orchestrated by G. Zinger, recorded by Igor Zhukov (p) Mikhail Yurovsky (cond), released Melodiya LP 1972, CD 1993; 2nd piano part orchestrated by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, recorded 1998 Rozhdestvensky (cond) Viktoria Postnikova (p), released Chandos 1999; rearranged by Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson that redistributes the 2 piano parts more equally between them, published 1940, various recordings; also arranged for piano solo by Leonid Sabaneyev published 1926 as No. 1 of 2 Oeuvres posthumes with his piano solo arrangement of "Symphonic Allegro", WoO 24
19	Sonate-Fantaisie (Sonata-Fantasy) No. 2 in G-sharp minor	piano	1897
28	Fantaisie in B minor	piano	1900
Fugues
W12	Fugue in F minor	piano	1888
–	Fugue in F minor	2 pianos	1888?	arrangement of WoO 12
W13	Fugue in F minor	piano	1888
–	Fugue in F minor	2 pianos	1888?	arrangement of WoO 13
W20	Fugue à 5 voix (Fugue in 5 parts) in E minor (Fuga a 5)	piano	1892	published 1916
Impromptus
A13	Valse-impromptu in E-flat major	piano	1887	fragment only
2#3	Impromptu à la mazur (Impromptu-Mazurka) in C major, No. 3 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 2	piano	1889
7	2 Impromptus à la mazur (2 Impromptu-Mazurkas) G-sharp minor F-sharp major	piano	1892
10	2 Impromptus F-sharp minor A major	piano	1894
12	2 Impromptus F-sharp major B-flat minor	piano	1895
14	2 Impromptus B major F-sharp minor	piano	1895
Mazurkas
W14	Mazurka in B minor	piano	1884
W11 W15 W16	3 Mazurkas C major B minor F major	piano	1886 1889 1889	published 1893
2#3	Impromptu à la mazur (Impromptu-Mazurka) in C major, No. 3 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 2	piano	1889
3	10 Mazurkas B minor F-sharp minor G minor E major D-sharp minor C-sharp minor E minor B-flat minor G-sharp minor E-flat minor	piano	1889
7	2 Impromptus à la mazur (2 Impromptu-Mazurkas) G-sharp minor F-sharp major	piano	1892
25	9 Mazurkas F minor C major E minor E major C-sharp minor F-sharp major F-sharp minor B major E-flat minor	piano	1899
40	2 Mazurkas D-flat major F-sharp major	piano	1903
Morceaux
2	3 Morceaux Étude in C-sharp minor Prélude in B major Impromptu à la mazur (Impromptu-Mazurka) in C major	piano	1887 1889 1889
9	Prélude et Nocturne Prélude in C-sharp minor Nocturne in D-flat major	piano left-hand	1894
45	3 Morceaux Feuillet d'album (Album Leaf) in E-flat major Poème fantasque (Whimsical Poem) in C major Prélude in E-flat major	piano	1904
49	3 Morceaux Étude in E-flat major Prélude in F major Rêverie in C major	piano	1905
51	4 Morceaux Fragilité (Fragility) Prélude in A minor Poème ailé (Winged Poem) Danse languide (Languid Dance)	piano	1906
52	3 Morceaux Poème in C major Enigme (Enigma) Poème languide (Languid Poem) in B major	piano	1907
56	4 Pièces Prélude in E-flat major Ironies in C major Nuances Étude	piano	1908
57	2 Morceaux Désir (Desire) Caresse dansée (Dancing Caress)	piano	1908
59	2 Pièces Poème Prélude	piano	1910
Nocturnes
W3	Nocturne in A-flat major	piano	1884–86(–85?)	published 1910
5	2 Nocturnes F-sharp minor A major	piano	1890
9#2	Nocturne in D-flat major, No. 2 from "Prélude et Nocturne", Op. 9	piano left-hand	1894
61	Poème-Nocturne	piano	1912
Poems
32	2 Poèmes F-sharp major D major	piano	1903
34	Poème tragique (Tragic Poem) in B-flat major	piano	1903
36	Poème satanique (Satanic Poem) in C major	piano	1903
41	Poème in D-flat major	piano	1903
44	2 Poèmes C major (Lento) C major (Moderato)	piano	1904
45#2	Poème fantasque (Whimsical Poem) in C major, No. 2 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 45	piano	1904
51#3	Poème ailé (Winged Poem), No. 3 from 4 Morceaux, Op. 51	piano	1906
52#1	Poème in C major, No. 1 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 52	piano	1907
52#3	Poème languide (Languid Poem) in B major, No. 3 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 52	piano	1907
59#1	Poème, No. 1 from 2 Pièces, Op. 59	piano	1910
61	Poème-Nocturne	piano	1912
63	2 Poèmes Masque (Mask) Étrangeté (Strangeness)	piano	1912
69	2 Poèmes (Allegretto) (Allegretto)	piano	1913
71	2 Poèmes Fantastique (Fantastic) En rêvant (Dreaming)	piano	1914
72	Vers la flamme (Toward the Flame), Poème	piano	1914
Preludes
	Prélude in D minor	piano	1883	no details available
2#2	Prélude in B major, No. 2 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 2	piano	1889
9#1	Prélude in C-sharp minor, No. 1 from "Prélude et Nocturne", Op. 9	piano left-hand	1894
11	24 Préludes C major A minor G major E minor D major B minor A major F-sharp minor E major C-sharp minor B major G-sharp minor G-flat major E-flat minor D-flat major B-flat minor A-flat major F minor E-flat major C minor B-flat major G minor F major D minor	piano	1888–96	#4 was originally an unfinished Ballade, Anh. 14, written in 1887. Its themes were reworked in 1888 and retitled Prélude, intended in a group of Morceaux. After #6 and the Prélude of Op. 2 were written in 1889, only the Op. 2 was grouped into a Morceaux collection, and #4 and #6 were put aside. After writing another Prélude #10 in 1893–94, Scriabin decided in 1895 to write a set of 24 in all the major and minor keys, and included the 3 previously-written in the new set. The remaining 21 were written 1895–96.
13	6 Préludes C major A minor G major E minor D major B minor	piano	1895
15	5 Préludes A major F-sharp minor E major E major C-sharp minor	piano	1896
16	5 Préludes B major G-sharp minor G-flat major E-flat minor F-sharp major	piano	1895
17	7 Préludes D minor E-flat major D-flat major B-flat minor F minor B-flat major G minor	piano	1896
22	4 Préludes G-sharp minor C-sharp minor B major B minor	piano	1897
27	2 Préludes G minor (Patetico) B major (Andante)	piano	1901
31	4 Préludes D-flat major/C major F-sharp minor E-flat minor C major	piano	1903
33	4 Préludes E major F-sharp major C major A-flat major	piano	1903
35	3 Préludes D-flat major B-flat major C major	piano	1903
37	4 Préludes B-flat minor F-sharp major B major G minor	piano	1903
39	4 Préludes F-sharp major D major G major A-flat major	piano	1903
45#3	Prélude in E-flat major, No. 3 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 45	piano	1904
48	4 Préludes F-sharp major C major D-flat major C major	piano	1905
49#2	Prélude in F major, No. 2 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 49	piano	1905
51#2	Prélude in A minor, No. 2 from 4 Morceaux, Op. 51	piano	1906
56#1	Prélude in E-flat major, No. 1 from 4 Pièces, Op. 56	piano	1908
59#2	Prélude, No. 2 from 2 Pièces, Op. 59	piano	1910
67	2 Préludes (Andante) (Presto)	piano	1913
74	5 Préludes (Douloureux, déchirant) (Très lent, contemplatif) (Allegro drammatico) (Lent, vague, indécis) (Fier, belliqueux)	piano	1914
Scherzos
W4	Scherzo in E-flat major	piano	1886
W5	Scherzo in A-flat major	piano	1886
46	Scherzo	piano	1905
Sonatas
W6	Sonate-Fantaisie (Sonata-Fantasy) in G-sharp minor	piano	1886	dedicated to Natalya Sekerina; published 1940
A11	Sonata in C-sharp minor	piano	1887	fragment only
W19	Sonate in E-flat minor Allegro appassionato Andantino Presto	piano	1887–89	published 1986 with 2nd mvt completed by someone else; revised as Op. 4 unfinished first published separately in 1947 as "Presto"
6	Sonate No. 1 in F minor	piano	1892
19	Sonate-Fantaisie (Sonata-Fantasy) No. 2 in G-sharp minor	piano	1897
23	Sonate No. 3 in F-sharp minor, (États d'âme (Moods))	piano	1898
30	Sonate No. 4 in F-sharp major	piano	1903
53	Sonate No. 5	piano	1907
62	Sonate No. 6	piano	1911–12
64	Sonate No. 7, (Messe blanche (White Mass))	piano	1912
66	Sonate No. 8	piano	1912–13
68	Sonate No. 9, (Messe noire (Black Mass))	piano	1913
70	Sonate No. 10, (Insect Sonata)	piano	1913
Waltzes
W8	Valse in D-flat major	piano	1886	published 1929
W7	Valse in G-sharp minor	piano	1886
1	Valse in F minor	piano	1886
A13	Valse-impromptu in E-flat major	piano	1887	fragment only
38	Valse in A-flat major	piano	1903
47	Quasi-valse in F major	piano	1905
Miscellaneous
W1	Canon in D minor	piano	1883(–84?)	published 1927
	Rhapsodie hongroise (Hungarian Rhapsody)	piano	1883–87	no details available
W9	Variations sur un thème de M'lle Egorov (Variations on a Theme by Mademoiselle Yegorova) in F minor (Egoroff Variations)	piano	1887	published 1947
A14	Ballade in B-flat minor	piano	1887(–88?)	fragment only; some themes used later in Prélude, Op. 11 No. 4
A16	Piano Piece in B-flat minor	piano	1887	discovered to be complete
4	Allegro Appassionato in E-flat minor	piano	1892	revised version of 1st mvt. of Sonate in E-flat minor, WoO 19
18	Allegro de concert (Concert Allegro) in B-flat minor	piano	1896
–	Allegro in D minor	2 pianos	1897?	reduction of "Symphonic Allegro", WoO 24; published 1997
21	Polonaise in B-flat minor	piano	1897
–	Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor	2 pianos	1896–98?	reduction of the orchestral part of Op. 20 for a 2nd piano
49#3	Rêverie in C major, No. 3 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 49	piano	1905
51#1	Fragilité (Fragility), No. 1 from 4 Morceaux, Op. 51	piano	1906
52#2	Enigme (Enigma), No. 2 from 3 Morceaux, Op. 52	piano	1907
56#2	Ironies in C major, No. 2 from 4 Pièces, Op. 56	piano	1908
56#3	Nuances, No. 3 from 4 Pièces, Op. 56	piano	1908
57#1	Désir (Desire), No. 1 from 2 Morceaux, Op. 57	piano	1908
57#2	Caresse dansée (Dancing Caress), No. 2 from 2 Morceaux, Op. 57	piano	1908
63#1	Masque (Mask), No. 1 from 2 Poèmes, Op. 63	piano	1912
63#2	Étrangeté (Strangeness), No. 2 from 2 Poèmes, Op. 63	piano	1912
'71#1	Fantastique (Fantastic), No. 1 from 2 Poèmes, Op. 71	piano	1914
'71#2	En rêvant (Dreaming), No. 2 from 2 Poèmes, Op. 71	piano	1914
72	Vers la flamme (Toward the Flame), Poème	piano	1914
73#1	Guirlandes (Garlands), No. 1 from 2 Danses, Op. 73	piano	1914
73#2	Flammes sombres (Dark Flames), No. 2 from 2 Danses, Op. 73	piano	1914
Other works
W10	Duett in D minor	2 voices & piano	1886
	Fantasie in A minor	instrumentation unknown	1887–88	same as WoO 18?
W21	Romance in A minor	horn (or cello) & piano	1890 (1893–97?)	published 1927
W2	Romance in F-sharp major	voice & piano	1894 (1892–93?)	dedicated to Natalya Sekerina; published 1924
A?	Keistut and Biruta	opera	c.1898	unfinished; completed from sketches by Alexander Nemtin c.1971 as an Oratorio for soprano, baritone, and orchestra, premiered c.1971, recorded c.1971 privately by Nemtin unreleased
W23	"Variations on a Russian Theme" (theme & 11 variations) in G major	string quartet	1899 (1898?)	collaborative composition by Artsybushev, Scriabin, Glazunov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov, Vītols, Blumenfeld, Ewald, Winkler, and Sokolov; Scriabin wrote Variation No. 2; published 1899
50	(opus number reserved or unused)		1905–06
55	(opus number reserved or unused)		1907–08
A?	Mysterium	stage	1903–15	multimedia interactive stage work; unfinished, fragments of "Prefatory Act" in manuscript; "Prefatory Action" completed from sketches by Alexander Nemtin as "Preparation for the Final Mystery" in 3 parts: Part 1 "Universe" 1970–72 Part 2 "Mankind" 1976–80 Part 3 "Transfiguration" 1996; Part 1 recorded 1973 Kiril Kondrashin (cond), released LP 1973, All 3 parts premiered/recorded 1996 Vladimir Ashkenazy (cond), released CD 2000
–	Nuances Op. 52#3, 59#1, 58, 51, 57#1, 57#2, 65#1, 61, 74#5, 71#1, 59#2, 63#1, 63#2, 65#3	ballet		suite of 14 late Scriabin piano pieces orchestrated by Alexander Nemtin 1975, premiered/recorded 1996 Vladimir Ashkenazy (cond), released CD 2000

References

Sources

• Bowers, Faubion (1969,1996). Scriabin, a Biography. (2nd, revised ed.) New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-28897-0. (Includes a catalogue of compositions.)
• Mitchell, Edward (1927). Scriabin. "The great Russian tone poet". A complete catalogue of his piano compositions with thematic illustrations. Introduction and notes. 36pp. London: Hawkes & Son, Ltd. (Lists piano compositions with opus numbers.)

External links

• An extensive collection of free scores of compositions by Alexander Scriabin in downloadable PDF format is available from the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP):
  • Alphabetical list of compositions with links to download pages
  • List by opus number with links to download pages
• Fairly complete list of works from the Scriabin Society