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A scherzo (/ ˈ s k ɛər t s oʊ /, UK also / ˈ s k ɜːr t-/, Italian:; plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata.
Scherzo in D minor is Sergei Rachmaninoff's earliest surviving composition for orchestra, composed when he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. [1] It takes between four and five minutes to play. The manuscript is dated 5-21 February 1888, when Rachmaninoff was still only 14. An unknown hand has changed this date to 1887. [2]
The Scherzo in F-sharp minor is one of the few surviving examples of Dmitri Shostakovich's early works, [1] along with five of his Eight Preludes for piano. [2] It is commonly dated as being written during the autumn or early winter months of 1919, the composer's first year at the Petrograd Conservatory (now the Saint Petersburg Conservatory), when he was aged 13.
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Overture. (Andante con moto in E minor [2] – Allegro in E major and time [3]) (sketched and completed in April 1841) [1] Scherzo. Vivo, in 6 8 time and in C ♯ minor, [4] whose theme is based on that of the overture. [1] It has a trio section in D ♭ major, in contrasting 2 4 time [5] whose material reappears as the coda of the movement. [6 ...
The Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C ♯ minor by Frédéric Chopin. He began composing it 1838 in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain, and completed it back in France by the end of 1839. [1] This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzi, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur.
This scherzo is scored for solo piano and has a duration of only two minutes. As is customary, the scherzo has an ABA structure and is in 3 4. The scherzo part itself starts in G minor, initially marked Allegro by Stravinsky, but later changed to Vivo, probably by Richter himself. [4] The trio is marked Moderato and modulates to G major. During ...