The new Scriabin : enigma and answers / [by] Faubion Bowers ; with an introduction by Vladimir Ashkenazy de Bowers, Faubion - 1973

Newton Abbot : David & Charles, 1973. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 210 pages : music, 1 portrait ; 23 cm. Notes; Originally published: New York : St Martin's Press, 1973. Includes bibliographical references (page 206) and index. Contents; Introduction / Vladmir Ashkenazy -- Broad stream : different currents -- Beginning life -- Middle years -- Russian return -- Last years -- Mysticism -- Creative process -- Harmonic system -- Ten sonatas -- Five symphonies -- In performance. Subjects; Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich 1872-1915. Composers Soviet Union ; Biography. Composers Russia ; Biography. Russian music Critical studies. Russian music Skr a bin, Aleksandr - Critical studies.