Chopin: Scherzos for Piano SoloFrdric Chopins 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there is little about them that is joke like, despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo, Robert Schumann asked: how should seriousness be attired, when even a joke is veiled in black?. Now that the Scherzi nos. 14 have been published