Vich Boonrod

AN ANALYSIS OF PIANO SONATA NO. 5, OP. 53 BY ALEXANDER SCRIABIN

Background and Objectives: Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1907) is a transitional work in which the composer moves from a late-Romantic idiom toward a personal harmonic system, and is the first of his sonatas cast in a continuous single-movement form. Its pitch organisation draws extensively on the “m...