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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.
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.
The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler is a ... the tonal plan of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and Mahler's Symphony No. 6, with the Scherzo/Andante order of ...
The scherzo borrows a theme from Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 7 (1824) by Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801–1866), whom Schumann admired. [6] The first and fourth movements borrow a theme which forms the continuous background for "How blessed are they that have endured" in Felix Mendelsohn's oratorio "St. Paul," a work which Schumann praised in ...
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]
After the US premiere, the critic Edwin H. Schloss called the symphony "a work of stimulating originality – music of a freshness, exuberance and warmth", the scherzo "pert, garrulous and brimming with delightful humor" and the cavatina "music of great lyric loveliness". Schloss reported that the work was greeted "with a torrent of applause". [9]
The beginning of Scherzo No. 4 alternates two contrasting textures and harmonies—first subdued chords and then faster arched figures that rise and fall with the dynamics. In summary, Chopin established the one-movement scherzos as a genre in which the piece grew out of the opening fragmentary gestures, heard at the outset in the initial short ...
The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, ... The third movement starts with a scherzo, a playful, march-like weaving of 12