On The Chopin Scherzo

Chopin's scherzo is a single-chapter piano solo which has distinctive contrast and enormous structure. It's Chopin's production of inevitable enthusiasm and imagination. He developed this form which belongs to other style into a independent musical composition style. There are differences between this kind of scherzo and its previous styles. Chopin's scherzo is no longer defined to frolic and amusement. On the contrary, it implies deep and complex content. This paper tries to grasp Chopin's creation methods of his four works from macroscopic angle, and discuss his creation thoughts concretizing scherzo's creation characteristic from microscopic angle, and last hold the profound contents of these works from performance, based on the analysis of the following aspects: expanding of scherzo by Chopin, works creation and performance.