Scherzo in D minor (Rachmaninoff)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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 is quite short, taking 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] It is dedicated to his cousin Alexander Siloti, and it was intended to be part of a larger work because it is headed "Third movement".
The model for the work is the Scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.[3] Rachmaninoff had earlier transcribed Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony for two pianos, and the Scherzo also has echoes of that work.[4]
The piece is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B♭), 2 bassoons, horn (F), trumpet (B♭), 2 timpani, violins I, violins II, violas, cellos and double basses.
The first performance of both the Scherzo and another early work, Prince Rostislav,[5] took place in Moscow on 2 November 1945, conducted by Nikolai Anosoff. The Scherzo was published in 1947.
References
- ↑ CD Baby
- ↑ bnet
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Talk Classical
- ↑ Chandos CD notes
External links
- (Russian) Piano.ru - Sheet music download
- (Russian) Chubrik.ru - Audio download
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about a classical composition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
