Scriabin's Prometheus borrows from Beethoven and Chopin. The design for the work is Beethoven's, while the themes are "Chopinesque." This brief reference is couched in a discussion of aesthetics in Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Scriabin. Scriabin is called "one of the most generous borrowers time has brought forth." The music of these composers is compared with the art of Kandinsky and the literature of Pound.

Index Classifications: 1900s

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