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Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minorOp. 39

Frédéric Chopin

  • Difficulty 9
  • C-sharp minor
  • 6 min
  • 649 measures

The third of Chopin's four Scherzos, composed in 1839 on Majorca and at Nohant, published in 1840 and dedicated to his pupil Adolf Gutmann. Presto con fuoco: stormy octave passages frame a chorale in D-flat major, each phrase of which is answered by a falling cascade of broken chords. This edition follows the 1879 Breitkopf & Härtel collected edition.

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