Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin born on 6 January 1872 died on 27 April 1915 was a Russian composer and pianist. In his early years he was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin, and wrote works in a relatively tonal, late Romantic idiom. Later, and independently of his highly influential contemporary, Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a substantially atonal and much more dissonant musical language, which accorded with his personal brand of metaphysics. Scriabin was influenced by synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his atonal scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also influenced by theosophy. n 1894 Scriabin made his debut as a pianist in St. Petersburg, performing his own works to positive reviews. For a period of five years, Scriabin was based in Moscow, during which time the first two of his symphonies were conducted by his old teacher Safonov. By the winter of 1904, Scriabin and his wife had relocated to Switzerland, where he began work on the composition of his Symphony No. 3. The work was performed in Paris during 1905. Scriabin gave his last concert on 2 April 1915 in St. Petersburg, performing a large programme of his own works.