


The trio, filled with longing, takes on a pianistic complexity. The gorgeous melody overlies a six-note-per-measure left-hand accompaniment of exceeding richness. It must be a charnel-house." The melody, marked "con anima", is repeated three times during the lengthy proceedings, the last time bringing us to the coda in a magnificent key change. Schumann compared this scherzo to a Byronic poem, "so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt." According to Wilhelm von Lenz, a pupil of Chopin, the composer said that the renowned sotto voce opening was a question and the second phrase the answer: "For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted (tombe) enough. The work was composed and published in 1837, and was dedicated to Countess Adèle Fürstenstein. His works are mainstays of Romanticism in 19th-century classical music.The Scherzo No. Chopin invented musical forms such as the ballade and was responsible for major innovations in forms such as the piano sonata, waltz, nocturne, étude, impromptu and prelude. Though technically demanding, Chopin's style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than virtuosity. A Polish patriot,Ĭhopin's extant compositions were written primarily for the piano as a solo instrument. In Paris, he made a comfortable living as a composer and piano teacher, while giving few public performances. In November 1830, at the age of 20, Chopin went abroad following the suppression of the Polish November Uprising of 1830–31, he became one of many expatriates of the Polish "Great Emigration." He was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsaw, to a Polish mother and French-expatriate father, and in his early life was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist.

He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets. Frédéric Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period.
