Fantasie in B minor, Op. 28 (Scriabin)
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The piece was composed in 1900. Scriabin taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1898 to 1902, and this Fantasie was the only piano piece he composed during the period when he was so busy as a professor. (However, there is an anecdote that he seems to have forgotten about writing this piece).
It is a transitional piece written between the Third Sonata, which is the end of Scriabin’s early period and shows a late romantic style, and the Fourth Sonata, which is considered to be the beginning of his middle period, when more originality such as the frequent use of dissonances and chromatic scales appears. It is a single movement piece in sonata form, and is a profound and dramatic output that makes full use of virtuosity, with a remarkable canonical treatment of the theme
