Julian Alexandrovich Scriabin (né Schlözer; russian: Юлиа́н Алекса́ндрович Скря́бин;12 February 1908 – 22 June 1919) was a Swiss-born Russian composer and pianist who was the youngest son of

Alexander Scriabin Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (; russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин ; – ) was a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed ...

and Tatiana de Schloezer.

Biography

Scriabin was born in

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, Switzerland as Julian Alexandrovich Schlözer. Through his mother, his granduncle was Paul de Schlözer. His father Alexander Scriabin, famous for his innovative piano compositions, had seven children: Rima, Yelena,Later Yelena Aleksandrovna Sofronitkaya (1900–1990), also a pianist. MariaMaria Aleskandrovna Skryabina (1901–1989), an actress at the Second

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, an

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and the wife of director

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. and Leo from his first marriage to Vera Ivanovna Isakovich; and

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, Julian, and

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from his relationship with Tatyana Fyodorovna Schloezer (Shlyotser). His eldest daughter Rima (1898–1905) and his son Leo (1902–1910) both died at the age of seven. By the time of the death of Leo, the composer had already been living for several years with Schloezer and had become estranged from his first family, so much so that the parents did not even meet at the burial of their son Lev (half brother of Julian). He was himself a promising composer and

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, but he died at the age of eleven under mysterious circumstances. In the last year of his life he wrote four preludes in his father's style, the authorship of which is questioned by some researchers. Those preludes were published for the first time 95 years after his death by Edition Octoechos. Musicologists have described Julian Scriabin both as a successor of his fatherLemer, p. 30 and as an early representative of the early Russian and Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s.Irina Ivanova, "Russkaia muzyka nachala XX veka"
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in Kyiv Oblast, four years after the death of his father. His body was found in the

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river.

Notes

References

*''The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'', 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993.

Bibliography

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