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The Variations retain most of Paganini's original material for solo violin. [1] As Paganini's original composition, it is structured as a theme with variations, presenting the theme, a total of twelve variations, and a final coda. The additional twelfth variation before the coda is Lutosławski's only structural alteration in the piece.
Paganini Variations, Book I, Book II: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Beggerow, Alan (January 23, 2014). "Brahms - Studies For Pianoforte, Variations On A Theme Of Paganini Opus 35". Musical Musings Blog. Hansen, Kelly Dean (January 9, 2009). "Opus 35 Listening Guide - Variations on a theme of Paganini (Studies for Piano)".
Paganini's theme is stated on strings with the piano picking out salient notes, after the first variation. Rachmaninoff likely got the idea of having a variation before the theme from the finale of Beethoven's Eroica symphony. [4] Variations II to VI recombine elements of the theme.
It is scored in various sections: a) Prelude. Whirlwind - b) Start of the Storm - c) Prayer - d) Alarm at Sea - d) Great Storm - e) General Alert - f) Calm (Andantino cantabile) – g) Finale (Theme, 2 Variations and Coda). Violin and Piano reduction by Daniele Zanettovich - World modern première - video on YouTube: 1828: 53: E pur amabile [2 ...
Variations is a classical and rock fusion album. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by his younger brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.. The Lloyd Webber brothers were always very close but their two different careers (a rock musical composer and a classical cellist) meant that a collaboration seemed unlikely.
Mark Hambourg – Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1902), for solo piano; Marc-André Hamelin – Variations on a Theme by Paganini, for solo piano (2011) Helloween – used in the opening guitar solo of Future World on the High Live album; Toshi Ichiyanagi – Paganini Personal, for marimba and piano
Since Paganini, many variations on the theme have been written, most notably those by Jean-Baptiste Arban, Del Staigers, Herbert L. Clarke for the cornet, trumpet, and euphonium, Francisco Tárrega and Johann Kaspar Mertz for classical guitar, Ignace Gibsone and Louis Moreau Gottschalk for piano, and Giovanni Bottesini for double bass. [3]
Piatigorsky was also a composer. His Variations on a Paganini Theme (based on Caprice No. 24) was composed in 1946 for cello and orchestra and orchestrated by his longtime accompanist Ralph Berkowitz; it was later transcribed for cello and piano. [15] Each of the 15 variations whimsically portrays one of Piatigorsky's musician colleagues.