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Theme and Variations is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3.The ballet was made for Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre), and premiered on November 26, 1947, at the City Center 55 Street Theater, with the two leads danced by Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch.
The Four Temperaments or Theme and Four Variations (The Four Temperaments) [1] [2] is an orchestral work and ballet by Paul Hindemith. Although it was originally conceived as a ballet for Léonide Massine , [ 1 ] the score was ultimately completed as a commission for George Balanchine , who subsequently choreographed it as a neoclassical ballet ...
Anton Arensky's Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky (1894) is among his most popular compositions. Variation sets have also been composed by notable twentieth-century composers, including Sergei Rachmaninoff (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra, and his variations for solo piano on themes by Chopin and Corelli),
Ludwig van Beethoven: 8 Variations on "Une fièvre brûlante" from Richard Coeur-de-lion, WoO 72 (piano) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 8 Variations in F major on the choir "Dieu d'amour" from Les mariages samnites, K. 352 (piano) Anton Reicha: Variations on a Theme by Grétry and a Rondeau, Op. 102 (piano)
The theme begins with a repeated ten-measure passage which itself consists of two intriguing [citation needed] five-measure phrases, a quirk that is likely to have caught Brahms's attention. Almost without exception, the eight variations follow the phrasal structure of the theme and, though less strictly, the harmonic structure as well.
Thematic transformation (also known as thematic metamorphosis or thematic development) is a musical technique in which a leitmotif, or theme, is developed by changing the theme by using permutation (transposition or modulation, inversion, and retrograde), augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation.
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Op. 17 – Variations (6) on a Theme; for flute and piano; Op. 18 – Suite and Variations; violin solo; Op. 19 – Divertimento; for strings;