Scherzo in D minor is Sergei Rachmaninoff's earliest surviving composition for orchestra, composed when he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. It is quite short, taking between four and five minutes to play.
Date of composition | 1888 (5-21 February 1888) in Moscow, Russia |
Premiered | 1945, November 2nd in Moscow, Russia |
First published | 1947 |
Dedicated to | Dedicated to his cousin Alexander Siloti |
Type | Scherzo |
Tonality | D Minor |
Instruments | Orchestra |
Autotranslations beta |
Sergueï Rachmaninov: Scherzo en ré mineur Sergej Vasil'evič Rachmaninov: Scherzo in re minore Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow: Scherzo d-moll |