The last opus of Alexander Scriabin as a musical "sketch" of the mystery

The article is devoted to the last piano opus by A.N. Scriabin - Five Preludes Op. 74 - in whose music one can see a certain artistic intention associated with the general idea of Scriabin - a musician and thinker. For a number of years the composer was completely absorbed in the idea of the Mystery. The grandiose plan involved the involvement of all mankind in a synthetic action in which civilization and culture would come to an end of their existence. The ecstatic feeling was to become the condition of unity in the last act of creation. The obvious impracticability of the Mystery was expressed in a compromise - the creation of a Preliminary Action. In the last years of his life, Scriabin devoted more and more time to composing music and poetic texts for his mystery plan. Refusing to compose major symphonic works, Scriabin worked on piano miniatures and sonatas, the composition of which he considered an intermediate result on the way to his main goal. Researchers note a significant change in the musical language during this period of creativity. The circle of images that worried the composer at that time was connected with the Mystery. The poetic texts of the Preliminary Act and the music composed during the last year of his life resonate in a peculiar way. This is especially true of the cycle of miniatures - Five Preludes Op. 74. Their sound reveals an extra-musical content, in which one can see the ideas and images of the Mystery in a folded form or in "sketches".