Alexandre Scriabine

Mysterious and visionary Promethean figure of early twentieth-century Russia: in 1910 with The Poem of Fire, he conceives the first multimedia performance in history (composing an entire score for “Keyboard for Light”); in 1913 he reaches atonality with Piano Sonata No. 10; before his death, from a trivial septicemia, he envisions the synesthetic experience of Mysterium to be staged for 7 days in a Himalayan temple. The Nikola Tesla of classical music.