Leonid Sabaneyev - Poème Op.7, No.3

Sabaneyev (1881-1968) was a Russian musicologist, music critic, composer and scientist. He was the son of Leonid Pavlovich Sabaneyev, a famous hunting expert, and his brother Boris was also a musician. His musical studies were under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev and Paul de Schlözer at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in mathematics and physics from Moscow University in 1908. This fact makes this composer even more interesting to me, graduating also in mathematics. He then made a special study of Alexander Scriabin, and became an authority on that composer (synthetic chord). His first book on Scriabin was published in 1916. He was both a conservative and a progressive; his ideas included a scale comprising 53 notes and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music". He also had several science works on mathematics and zoology. This is in a set of 3 pieces, which were published 1913, shortly before WW I.