Frédéric Chopin

Scherzos (Chopin)

Frédéric Chopin's four scherzos (or scherzi) are single-movement pieces for solo piano, composed between 1833 and 1843. They are often linked to Chopin's four ballades, composed in roughly the same

Pieces#

The four scherzos are: * The Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20, was published in 1835. As to its genesis dates, nothing more is surely known. * The Scherzo No. 2 in B minor, Op. 31, was composed between 1835 and 1837 in Paris. * The Scherzo No. 3 in C minor, Op. 39, was composed 1838–1839, begun in the Valldemossa Charterhouse, Mallorca. * The Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54, was presumably composed in the summers of 1842 and 1843 in Nohant.

Recordings#

The four scherzos are part of the established Chopin piano repertoire and have been recorded by many well-known pianists, including Vladimir Horowitz, Alfred Cortot, Walter Gieseking, Arthur Rubinstein, Emil Gilels, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Maurizio Pollini, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dinu Lipatti, Sviatoslav Richter, Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Emanuel Ax, Andrei Gavrilov, John Ogdon, Ivo Pogorelich, Yundi Li, Seong-Jin Cho, Murray Perahia, Krystian Zimerman and Boris Berezovsky.

Composer: Frédéric Chopin