Listening Guide – Movement 2: Scherzo

Transcript It is obvious from the outset that the scherzo movement caricature is the march of the first movement. But dramatically it goes far beyond that, Mephistopheles and mimicry of fausty and heroism, that it during the first movements development section becomes the scherzo focal point, if not, its raison d’etre. The first movement’s heroic […]