Piano Sonata No. 7 (Scriabin) The Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64,
subtitled White Mass, was written by Alexander Scriabin in 1911.
As one of the late piano sonatas of Scriabin's career, the music
is highly chromatic and almost atonal. The White Mass is closely
related to its predecessor, the sixth sonata. Both works were
written in 1911–12 and have structurally and stylistically more
in common than any other pair of Scriabin sonatas. Scriabin
reportedly feared the sixth sonata, considering the work to be
corrupted by demonic forces and going so far as to refuse to
play the work in public. Scriabin composed his seventh sonata as
an exorcism against the darkness of the sixth sonata, subtitling
the work White Mass in order to reflect its celestial nature. He
intended the mood of the piece to be ecstatic, evoking images of
winged flight, voluptuous rapture and overwhelming forces. The
composer was especially fond of the piece, probably due to its
messianic context and perfected structure, which features more
contrast