After Waltz, Op. 1, this work was composed in August 1886 and published posthumously in 1947. For Scriabin, who gained attention at school by playing the piano at a school festival at the Cadet Corps, and was subsequently often asked by classmates to perform dance music such as waltzes and mazurkas, it is conceivable that waltzes and mazurkas naturally found their way into his compositions. In contrast to Waltz, Op. 1, it begins with a sudden crescendo. This abrupt dynamic shift, the leaps in the left-hand octaves, and the handling of rests are frequently observed in works such as the Sonata-Fantasy (1886). Furthermore, many of the techniques he would employ towards his late period were already evident in his compositions from this time.