Franz Joseph Haydn - Variations In F Minor
- Komponist: Franz Joseph Haydn
- Serie: Henle Urtext Editions
- Antall sider: 20
- Sjanger: Classical
- Instrument: Piano
- Utgivelsesår: 2003
- Utgiver: G. Henle Verlag
- Utgavenummer: HN 912 ISMN: 9790201809120
Haydn’s last piano work is also considered to be his most famous single work for this instrument. The minor theme is filled with emotional depth: “a melancholy andante in f minor, with variations, as only a genius can do them, that almost sounds like a free fantasia” (thus described in a review of the time). The form is also demanding: not merely one theme but two one in a major key, the other in a minor one are varied in turn. The autograph gives one to believe that the work was originally intended to be the first movement of a sonata. This single edition has been taken from the recently revised volume of “Piano pieces” (HN 224) and furnished with a detailed commentary.Henle also recently published a facsimile of Haydn’s autograph of the Variations in f minor: HN 3218.?
