Wyschnegradsky - Twenty-four Preludes in Quarter-tones; No. 3

Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is typically acknowledged as a microtonal composer who spent most of his creative life in Paris and Germany developing his theories and “ultrachromatic scales.“ Before his emigration to Paris in 1920, he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and became an avant-garde composer. Wyschnegradsky was clearly a disciple of Scriabin’s music. He actually experienced something like an epiphany after hearing Scriabin’s works and thereafter became a mystic, abandoned hi