What was the nationality of the writer of Scherzo No. 2?
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Scherzo No. 2 (Chopin) The Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31 is a scherzo by Frédéric Chopin. The work was composed and published in 1837, and was dedicated to Countess Adèle Fürstenstein. Robert Schumann compared this scherzo to a Byronic poem, "so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt." According to Wilhelm von Lenz, a pupil of Chopin, the composer said that the renowned sotto voce opening was a question and the second phrase the answer: "For Chopin it was never questioning enough, never soft enough, never vaulted (tombe) enough. It must be a charnel-house." Huneker exults, "What masterly writing, and it lies in the very heart of the piano! A hundred generations may not improve on these pages."
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Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin ( ; ] ; born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising.
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Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (] ), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, "Machado," or "Bruxo do Cosme Velho" (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, nevertheless he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. He was multilingual, having taught himself French, English, German and Greek in later life.
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Franco Scaglia Franco Scaglia (27 March 1944 – 6 July 2015) was an Italian writer and journalist.
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Joyce Lussu Joyce Salvadori (8 May 1912 – 4 November 1998), better known by her married name Joyce Lussu, was an Italian writer, translator and partisan.
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Antonio De Santis Antonio De Santis, Totò (] ; 17 October 1931 - 4 April 2014) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in "Larinese", the dialect of Larino.
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Silvano Ceccherini Silvano Ceccherini (1915 - 1974) was an Italian anarchist and autobiographical novelist.
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Mario Capanna Mario Capanna (born 10 January 1945) is an Italian politician and writer.
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Annibale Caro Fra' Annibale Caro, K.M., (6 June 150717 November 1566) was an Italian writer and poet.
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Carlo Porta Carlo Porta (June 15, 1775 – January 5, 1821) was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the central dialect of the Western Lombard language).
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Santiago Bovisio Santiago Bovisio (September 29, 1903 in Bergamo – July 3, 1962 in Río Cuarto) was an Italian writer and occultist, and the founder of the Sacred Order of American Knights of Fire, which is referred to as "Cafh".
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Ugo Foscolo Ugo Foscolo (] ; 6 February 1778 in Zakynthos10 September 1827 in Turnham Green), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.
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Henry Litolff Henry Charles Litolff (7 August 1818 – 5 August 1891) was a piano virtuoso, composer of Romantic music, and music publisher. A prolific composer, he is today known mainly for a single brief work – the scherzo from his Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor – and remembered as the founder of the "Collection Litolff", a highly regarded publishing imprint of classical music scores.
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Laura Orvieto Laura Orvieto, born Laura Cantoni (March 7, 1876 - May 9, 1955), was a Jewish Italian writer.
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Franco Lucentini Franco Lucentini (] ; 24 December 1920 - 5 August 2002) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.
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Cesare Maestri Cesare Maestri (born 2 October 1929) is an Italian mountaineer and writer.
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Wolfgang Weyrauch Wolfgang Weyrauch (15 October 1904 – 7 November 1980) was a German writer, journalist, and actor. He wrote under the pseudonym name Joseph Scherer.
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Goffredo Parise Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel "Il padrone" "(The Boss)" and the Strega Prize in 1982 for "Sillabario n.2".
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Álvares de Azevedo Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (September 12, 1831 – April 25, 1852), affectionately called "Maneco" by his close friends, relatives and admirers, was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist, considered to be one of the major exponents of Ultra-Romanticism and Gothic literature in Brazil. His works tend to play heavily with opposite notions, such as love and death, platonism and sarcasm, sentimentalism and pessimism, among others, and have a strong influence of Musset, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Goethe and – above all – Byron.
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Dora Melegari Dorette (Dora) Melegari (27 June 1849 – 31 July 1924) was a Swiss writer who wrote in both French and Italian. Three of her early works were written by a ghost writer. In time she was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize.
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Niccolò Tucci Niccolò Tucci (May 1, 1908 – December 10, 1999) was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian.
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Guido del Giudice Guido del Giudice (born August 14, 1957) is an Italian philosopher and writer.