Scriabin

Scriabin's early works are lush, Chopin-influenced piano pieces, but his style underwent a dramatic transformation around 1903. He developed the "mystic chord" — a six-note synthetic harmony — and moved toward an increasingly chromatic, almost atonal language. His orchestral works Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire explore synaesthesia and spiritual transcendence. He planned a grand multimedia work called Mysterium that would unite all arts and senses, to be performed in the Himalayas, which he believed would trigger the end of the world and humanity's spiritual transformation. He died at 43 from sepsis caused by a lip infection before this work could be realized. His harmonic innovations anticipated developments that Schoenberg and others would explore.