Chopin, Frédéric. (1810–1849) Scherzo pour piano dédié à Mademoiselle Adèle de Furstenstein, opéra 31. INSCRIBEDFolio, 19 pp. [PN] 2494. First edition of Chopin's Scherzo no. 2 in B flat major, a work which, like so much of his extraordinary music, permanently resides in the consciousness of even the most unmusical of us. Schumann compared its tempestuous strains to a Byronic poem, "so overflowing with tenderness, boldness, love and contempt." According to Wilhelm von Lenz, a pupil of Chopin, the composer described the famous sotto voce opening as a question to