Chopin - Scherzo no.1 in B minor Op.20 (Yoffe)

Описание: Chopin Scherzo no.1 in B minor Op.20

Dina Yoffe

When did Chopin write his first Scherzo? When did it occur, this ‘fulminating’ at the piano, this documenting of an eruption of emotion stronger than anything he had ever expressed? When did he conceive of a work that seems to anticipate that formula for a well-constructed drama, attributed to Tolstoy: start fortissimo, then just carry on crescendo to the end? Did Chopin write these bars around the turn of 1831 in Vienna, in an atmosphere of acute solitude, when he confessed to one of his Warsaw friends: ‘if I could, I would move all the tones that my blind, furious, unfettered feelings would incite’? Or a couple of years later, in Paris, when in white gloves and brillant mood, ‘pulled from all sides’, as he related to another of his friends, he entered the foremost society, since thence, as he wrote, ‘apparently issues good taste; at once you possess great talent if […] the Princess de Vaudemont was protecting you’?

Source: https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/komp...

A theatrical piece in my opinion. Two poles apart, something fast and aggressive, and something that sounds like the voices of mystical creatures singing magical songs in your ear.

Sheet: https://imslp.org/wiki/Scherzo_No.1%2...)