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