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He has been conveniently called a mystic, but unless it is understood as comprehensively implying a symbolical expression of mystical ideas, the term can hardly convey to us the full extent of the composer's separation from the ordinary musician - mystic who, while devoting himself to the exposition of a spiritual idea, is content to rely more or less upon the approved musical paraphernalia.
With Scriabin, the process is distinct in two particulars from that employed by other composers evincing a spiritual tendency. From the moment of entrance into his second period his mind was occupied almost exclusively with the problems of psychic evolution, but he differs from the composer of Parsifal in that instead of devoting himself to the con. Sideration of the soul of the human individual his concern is with the Universal Soul, which for him symbolises the phenomenon of Creation and, in its application to humanity, the self-assertion of individuality. In his music is portrayed the condition of this Soul in presence of various antagonistic elements, and in that ceaseless creative activity regarded by him as its function. The second point of difference is that his musical substance is something quite remote from the established conception of harmony.
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He has been conveniently called a mystic, but unless it is understood as comprehensively implying a symbolical expression of mystical ideas, the term can hardly convey to us the full extent of the composer's separation from the ordinary musician - mystic who, while devoting himself to the exposition of a spiritual idea, is content to rely more or less upon the approved musical paraphernalia.
With Scriabin, the process is distinct in two particulars from that employed by other composers evincing a spiritual tendency. From the moment of entrance into his second period his mind was occupied almost exclusively with the problems of psychic evolution, but he differs from the composer of Parsifal in that instead of devoting himself to the con. Sideration of the soul of the human individual his concern is with the Universal Soul, which for him symbolises the phenomenon of Creation and, in its application to humanity, the self-assertion of individuality. In his music is portrayed the condition of this Soul in presence of various antagonistic elements, and in that ceaseless creative activity regarded by him as its function. The second point of difference is that his musical substance is something quite remote from the established conception of harmony.
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