A Year with Alexander Scriabin — A 52-Week Guided Music Journal

A Year with Alexander Scriabin: A Weekly Journal Inspired by Music, Mysticism & Ecstatic Vision

Spend a year exploring Alexander Scriabin through 52 moments of music, ambition, fragility, desire and visionary imagination. From his Moscow childhood and early Chopinesque piano language to the ecstatic sonatas, colour experiments and unfinished Mysterium, the journey follows a composer whose music increasingly pushed against the boundaries of conventional form and expression.

Across 52 weekly experiences, the journey unfolds through four distinct sections:

Section I — Moscow Childhood, Piano Hunger & the Wounded Hand
Explore Scriabin’s early life, Conservatory years, devotion to Chopin, damaging hand injury, first publications and the beginnings of a musical identity shaped by sensitivity, ambition and physical limitation.

Section II — Salons, Desire & the First Fires of Ecstasy
Follow the intensification of Scriabin’s personal and musical world through relationships, European salons, the Fifth Sonata, The Poem of Ecstasy, Vers la flamme and Prometheus.

Section III — Theosophy, Orchestral Splendour & Cosmic Self-Dramatisation
Enter Scriabin’s increasingly visionary world of late sonatas, philosophical ideas, public charisma and the vast ambitions surrounding Mysterium.

Section IV — Late Sonatas, Fragile Body & the Unfinished Mystery
Reflect on Scriabin’s final music, sudden death and unfinished artistic vision, returning to earlier works while considering the contradictions and extraordinary creative legacy he left behind.

Each week combines a full-page visual opening, a substantial listening and reflection essay, recommended listening, focused observation prompts and a dedicated Journal Notes page.

Inside the experience:

• 52 structured weekly experiences
• Four thematic sections
• Recommended listening each week
• Substantial contextual and reflective essays
• Listening, looking and noticing prompts
• Reflection questions
• Dedicated Journal Notes pages
• Return to Contents navigation
• Instant digital PDF format

A year-long invitation to hear Scriabin not simply as a mystic or eccentric, but as a composer whose music transformed fragility, sensuality and restless ambition into an increasingly extraordinary world of sound.