Word: scherzo
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...Scherzo Waltz from "Boadbil...
...Scherzo, molto vivace...
...fourth number consisted of three solos for Violincello with piano accompaniment, "Sarabande" by Bach; "Moment-Musical" by Schubert and a Scherzo by Klengel. In these pieces Mr. Schroeder showed the greatest feeling and sympathy; he had to give less attention to mere detail and was able to enter more fully into the spirit of music. The first is a slow and rather melancholy movement and the other two are opposite in character and together they make a hard test of the soloist's powers...
...ending, then, quietly, in a soft passage. The second movement is odd in every way, even in its name, "Valse Melancholique," itself a seeming contradiction. The waltz time is sustained but the music is rather funereal than bright. The third movement, the exact opposite of the second, is a "scherzo." There is no regular theme, but an entanglement of a lot of minor ideas which produce no impression but that of confusion. The final movement, a theme with variations, is a technical work of little interest to the ordinary hearer...
...sense of a military hero, but in that of a perfect man. The four movements depict man's various sensations: in the first, youthful and active emotions, followed by the mournful and solemn grief in the magnificent funeral march, the wild impetuosity of the scherzo, and the blending of all the emotions in the finale...