Scherzo

Music: Frederic Chopin - Scherzo No 1 in B minor, Op 20 2 comments | Leave a comment

February 28th, 2002 2002

But the masterpiece was undoubtedly the last, a symphony in silver-grey and pink, a pure melody of colour which I feel sure Whistler would call a Scherzo, and take as its visible motive the moonlight wandering in silver mist through a rose-garden; unless indeed he saw this dress, in which case he would paint it and nothing else, for it is a dress such as Velasquez only could paint, and

Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

I recall laughing, along with the entire Queen Elizabeth Hall audience in London, when the Beaux Arts played the movement in Charles Ives's trio headed "The Scherzo is a joke".

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He does, however, observe most (but not all) of the repeats in the Scherzo, which is all too rarely done.

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The "Scherzo" is shimmering with playfulness, and, in the Beethoven fashion, has a tender intermezzo amoroso.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

There is an allegro, then a "Scherzo" in E flat minor, the "March," and a short

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

More than to any one of the master's scherzos, the name capriccio would be suitable to his third "Scherzo," Op. 39, with its capricious starts and changes, its rudderless drifting.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

The absence of scorn distinguishes the fourth "Scherzo," Op. 54, from the other three; but, like them, although less closely wrapped, it wears dark veils.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Allegretto scherzando was taken to represent the usual Andante, the Tempo di Menuetto, the familiar "Scherzo" and, as the two movements thus interpreted seemed rather paltry, and none of the usual effects could be got with them, our musicians came to regard the entire symphony as a sort of accidental hors d'oeuvre of Beethoven's muse -- who, after the exertions with the A major symphony had chosen "to take things rather easily."

On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848

Movement 2 (Tema con variazioni) Part 09: Variation 8 'Scherzo'.

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