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Mysterium is an unfinished musical work by composer Alexander Scriabin. He started working

on the composition in 1903, but left it incomplete when he died in 1915. Scriabin planned that

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the work would be synesthetic, exploiting the senses of smell and touch as well as hearing. He

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wrote that
"There will not be a single spectator. All will be participants. The work requires special
people, special artists and a completely new culture. The cast of performers includes an
orchestra, a large mixed choir, an instrument with visual effects, dancers, a procession,

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incense, and rhythmic textural articulation. The cathedral in which it will take place will not

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be of one single type of stone but will continually change with the atmosphere and motion of

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the Mysterium. This will be done with the aid of mists and lights, which will modify the

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architectural contours."
Scriabin intended the performance to be in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, a week-long

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event that would be followed by the end of the world and the replacement of the human race

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with "nobler beings".

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At the time of his death, Scriabin had sketched 72 pages of a prelude to the Mysterium, entitled

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Prefatory Action. Alexander Nemtin spent 28 years reforming this sketch into a three-hour-long
work, which was eventually recorded.

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CD Review
Biography of Scriabin, including a description of the Mysterium
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Scriabin in the Himalayas
"Scriabin's Mysterium and the Birth of Genius" by Emanuel E. Garcia

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