I. Taneieff. While still continuing
the Cadet courses, he was enrolled as a student at the Moscow
Conservatory of Music. He studied the pianoforte with Vassily Safonoff,
counterpoint first with Taneieff and later with Arensky. His studies
both in the Conservatory and in the corps were completed by 1891. In
1892 he toured Europe for the first time as pianist, playing in
Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Petrograd. The
next five years Scriabine devoted to both concert-tours and
composition. In 1897 he became Professor of Pianoforte, playing at the
Moscow conservatory, remaining such for six years. He resigned from his
post in 1903 in order to devote himself entirely to composition and
concertizing, living principally in Beattenberg, Switzerland, and in
Paris. It is during that time that he seems to have been converted to
Theosophy. He spent 1905-06 in Genoa and in Geneva. In February, 1906,
Scriabine embarked on a tour of the United States. He played in New York
City, Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati and other cities. The next years
were spent in Beattenberg, Lausanne and Biarritz. From 1908 to 1910,
Scriabine lived in Brussels. Then he returned to Moscow, touring Russia
in 1910, 1911 and 1912. In 1914 he visited England for the first time.
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