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Skriabin tends to be viewed nowadays as a bit of an island as a Romantic composer, caught up in his own world of mysticism, using music and colour to bridge reality and divinity in a soliptic language. He tends to have been eclipsed by composers like Schönberg and Stravinsky. As a theosophist, Skriabin believed that one way of achieving a knowledge of God was via spiritual extasy. I love his music. The Poem of Extasy (1908), Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910) and the late symphonies are transcendent.
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