The mystery of Scriabin As an 11-year-old boy, Vladimir Horowitz met Scriabin briefly and played for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VmLkzzBMM&t=654"I played for Scriabin in 1914, one year before he died... It was at five o'clock at the afternoon... I came there, he was sitting like this
(imitates a person contorted by severe nervous ticks) - Scriabin, he was crazy, you know..."
That's the decisively important detail not a single biographer or contemporary witness ever mentioned about Scriabin.
How it could have looked (although Kissin does not have ticks of the severity suggested by Horowitz about Scriabin):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WDU14w_AZc&t=2402