Music Man

I don't play the piano much these days, but when I did I used to enjoy playing (or trying to play) the early music of Alexander Scriabin, who died a hundred years ago this year.  Musically way ahead of his time his idiosyncratic style  paved the way for composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky.  Although his later stuff is too atonal for my tastes, his earlier pieces are harmonically quirky whilst remaining tuneful. Indeed he always cited Chopin as one of his exemplars.  His music very quickly fell out of fashion after his death and is little performed today but he deserves to be remembered.