This man's son Julian composed five preludes before meeting his untimely end in a boating accident at age eleven.
This man's son Julian composed five preludes before meeting his untimely end in a boating accident at age eleven. Like Schumann, this man abandoned his career as a performer when he injured his hand in a bout of excessive practicing. He was notoriously fearful of his sixth piano sonata, which he never performed in public. Some of his later pieces take as their basis a synthetic six note chord known as the "mystic" chord. This composer created a symphonic work that used a color organ known as the "Chromola." Besides composing Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, he created a piece meant to be performed in the Himalayas for seven days. For 10 points, name this synesthetic Russian composer who intended his Mysterium to precede the end of the world.
This man's son Julian composed five preludes before meeting his untimely end in a boating accident at age eleven.
Alexander Scriabin