Sonata-fantasie in G minor

Alexander Scriabin began working on his Second Sonata, Op. 19 "Sonata-fantaisie" in Genoa in 1892 and completed it in the Crimea in 1897. The seaside locations where Scriabin was working on the Sonata influenced its musical imagery. According to Scriabin’s biographer Yuri Engel, the Sonata had a program: ‘The first movement is a quiet southern night at the seashore. In the development - a dark, agitated, deep sea. The E-major section is caressing moonlight after darkness.