Originally Posted by Sasquatch

I think Robert Schumann is very underrated, he is remembered as being very eccentric and for ending up in a mental institution but he wrote some very beautiful music. His friend Brahms was one of his biggest supporters and helped him and his family a lot but in the end his insanity cut his career way too short.

I think Scriabin wrote a piece called "The Divine Poem" and I have a 3 CD set of his solo piano works but other than the fact he was from Russia and a friend of Sergei Rachmaninov he is not widely known.