
Huneker exults, "What masterly writing, and it lies in the very heart of the piano! A hundred generations may not improve on these pages.

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.



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