Marina Scriabina (30 January 1911 - 28 April 1998) was a Russian artist, author, composer and musicologist, who was the daughter of composer

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and Tatiana Schlözer. Scriabina was born in Moscow. She had two older siblings,

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, and four older half-siblings from her father’s first marriage. After her father’s death in 1915, she lived with her mother in Moscow and Kiev before going to Belgium to live with her maternal grandmother. In 1927, Scriabina moved to Paris to study art at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She also studied music theory with Rene Leibowitz and worked with electronic techniques at Radiodiffusion Francaise, ultimately earning a doctorate in aesthetics in 1967. Her dissertation, entitled ''Representation du Temps et de Vintemporalité dans les Arts Plastiques Figuratifs'', was later published. Scriabina designed art posters. She also wrote and translated works on music and Egyptian art, often working with her uncle Boris de Schlözer. After moving to France, she socialized with Luciano Berio, Henk Badings,

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, Luc Ferrari,

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, Pierre Schaeffer, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Scriabina’s publications included:

Writing

Articles

*La Musique et la Chine Ancienne (Revue française de sociologie, 1962, vol. 3, no 4, pp. 398–406) *Vers une Poésie Radiophonique *Writing, Myth and Creativity in Pharaonic Egypt (with Rosanna Rowland)

Books

*''Au Carrefour de Thebes'' *''Le Langage Musical'' *''Le Miroir du Temps'' *''Notes et Reflexions: Carnets Inedits'' (by Alexander Scriabin; edited & translated by Marina Scriabina) *''Problems de la Musique Moderne'' (with Boris de Schlözer) *''Representation du Temps et de Vintemporalité dans les Arts Plastiques Figuratifs''

Music

Ballet

*''Bayalet''t

Chamber

*''Two Piano Sonatas'' *''Viola Sonata''

Electronic

*''Suite Radiophonique''

Vocal

*Songs

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scriabina, Marina Russian women artists Russian women writers Russian musicologists Russian women composers 1911 births 1998 deaths People from Moscow Electronic music 20th-century musicologists