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- 6 Variations in F major, Op.34
- Variations and Fugue in E-flat major, Op.35
- 6 Variations in D major, Op.76
- Veränderungen über einen Walzer, Op.120, (C major)
- 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from 'Das Waldmädchen', WoO 71, (A major)
- 24 Variations on 'Venni Amore' by Vincenzio Righini, WoO 65, (D major)
- 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80
- 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63, (C minor)
- 9 Variations on 'Quant'e piu bello', WoO 69, (A major)
- 6 Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento', WoO 70, (G major)
- 12 Variations on 'Menuet a la Vigano', WoO 68, (C major)
- 8 Variations on 'Une fièvre brûlante', WoO 72, (C major)
- 10 Variations on 'La stessa, la stessissima', WoO 73, (B♭ major)
- 7 Variations on 'Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen', WoO 75, (F major)
- 8 Variations on 'Tändeln und Scherzen', WoO 76, (F major)
- 13 Variations on 'Es war einmal ein alter Mann', WoO 66, (A major)
- 6 Variations in G major, WoO 77
- 6 Variations on a Swiss song, WoO 64, (F major)
- 7 Variations on 'God Save the King', WoO 78, (C major)
- 5 Variations on 'Rule Britannia', WoO 79, (D major)
- 8 Variations on the
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Ruth Padel- Beethoven Variations
Ruth Padel- Wariacje Beethovena
Pages: 131
Soft cover
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
English
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Enigma Variations
Musical composition by Edward Elgar
For the Enigma Records compilation album, see Enigma Variations.
Edward Elgar composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations,[a] between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral work comprising fourteen variations on an original theme.
Elgar dedicated the work "to my friends pictured within", each variation being a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances (see musical cryptogram). Those portrayed include Elgar's wife Alice, his friend and publisher Augustus J. Jaeger and Elgar himself. In a programme note for a performance in 1911 Elgar wrote:
This work, commenced in a spirit of humour & continued in deep seriousness, contains sketches of the composer's friends. It may be understood that these personages comment or reflect on the original theme & each one attempts a solution of the Enigma, for so the theme is called. The sketches are not 'portraits' but each variation contains a distinct idea founded on some particular personality or perhaps on some incident known only to two people. This is the basis of the composition, but the work may be listened to as a 'piece of music' apart from any extraneous considera