{"product_id":"2026200010510-secondhand-the-new-scriabin-enigma-and-answers","title":"The New Scriabin: Enigma And Answers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew composers have provoked as much fascination, controversy, and mystical devotion as Alexander Scriabin, the Russian pianist-composer whose music and philosophy challenged the very foundations of Western tonality. The New Scriabin: Enigma and Answers by Faubion Bowers — introduced by the legendary pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy — presents a penetrating reassessment of Scriabin's life, his theosophical obsessions, and the radical harmonic language that defined his later works. Bowers chronicles the composer's meteoric rise in fin-de-siècle Russia, his intoxicating blend of mysticism and music, and the enduring questions that surround his legacy with the authority of a scholar who knew Scriabin's world intimately.\n\nBowers writes with a rare combination of musicological rigour and biographical warmth, situating Scriabin within the turbulent cultural landscape of early 20th-century Europe while arguing passionately for his rightful place among the great innovators of modern music. The result is a work that illuminates not only the man behind the myth, but the strange, visionary universe his music inhabits — leaving the reader to wonder whether Scriabin was a prophet ahead of his time, or an enigma that can never be fully solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130710335707,"sku":"2026200010510-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e9e4d67f-2ce2-4eef-a1b8-ece8cebe8dd8.png?v=1786589006","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010510-secondhand-the-new-scriabin-enigma-and-answers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}