“My name is Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 [O.S. 25 December 1871] – 27 April [O.S. 14 April] 1915). I was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, I was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and I composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of my influential contemporary Arnold Schoenberg, I developed a much more dissonant musical language that had transcended usual tonality but was not atonal, which accorded with my personal brand of metaphysics. I found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of my scale, while my colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. I’m often considered the main Russian symbolist composer and I’m a major representative of the Russian Silver Age.“