a short musical composition, generally in time, of a light and playful style. It is more rapid than the old minuet. Some excellent examples of the scherzo are to be found in Beethoven's works; among others, one in his second Symphony, op. 35, in D major.

SCHEUFFELIN, or SCHAEUFFELEIN, HANS LEONARD, a celebrated old German painter and wood-engraver, was born at Nürnberg about 1490. Haus was placed early with Albrecht Dürer, with whom he became a great favourite. A good painting by Scheuffelin is his "Taking Down from the Cross," in Nördlingen, executed in 1521. He died at Nördlingen in 1539 or 1540.