Most of the music discussed here is what is termed 'classical' music. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.2 in C Minor, ' Little R.Moondog - Bird's Lament and Symphonique No.Beethoven - Violin Sonata In C Minor, Opus 30 No.Dohnányi - Variations On A Nursery Tune.Sonny Boy Williamson II - Your Funeral and My Tri.Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor.Albert Ketèlby - Dance Of The Merry Mascots.Brüll - Konzertstuck For Piano and Orchestra.Rimsky-Korsakov - Piano Concerto In C-sharp Minor.It must be a charnel-house." When the Scherzo comes to a thundering close in D flat Major some nine-odd minutes later, (some say a triumphant close) in the same rhythm as the opening, the 'bad' joke has been transformed.Ĭhopin's Scherzo No.
One of Chopin's students said of the opening of the Scherzo, "For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted enough. There is something ominous from the very beginning of the piece. 2 In B-flat Minor is hardly a laughing matter.
Scherzo is an Italian word that means 'joke', but the Scherzo No. Everything in Chopin comes from the heart, from emotion, and serves musical expression. He brought to his piano works a type of technical quality that is by no means easy, but at the same time it is not an empty display of rapid finger work. He brought the Mazurka, the national dance of Poland, into the concert hall and helped establish the form of the piano Nocturne.Ĭhopin has been called the poet of the piano, and many consider him to be the greatest of all the composers for the instrument. Frederic Chopin was a virtuoso of the instrument, and the vast majority of his compositions were for the piano.