Karol Szymanowski
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Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Szymanowski in 1922
Nowy Świat 47 street, Warsaw, where Szymanowski lived and composed in 1924–29
Villa Atma, Szymanowski's house in Zakopane, now the Karol Szymanowski Museum
Autograph of the Stabat Mater score commissioned by Bronisław Krystall, 1926
Alexander Scriabin
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Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, independently of his contemp
Karol Szymanowski
…in the late 19th and early 20th century. Szymanowski's early works show the influence of the late Romantic German school as well as the early works of Alexander Scriabin, as exemplified by his Étude Op. 4 No. 3 and his first two symphonies. Later, he developed an impressionistic and partially atonal style, represented…
Scriabin in 1909
Scriabin as a child
Zverev's students in the late 1880s. Scriabin, with military attire, is second from the left. Rachmaninoff is the fourth from the right.
Scriabin (sitting on the left of the table) as a guest at Wladimir Metzl's home in Berlin, 1910