Baerenreiter Verlag Variations for Piano - Mozart/von Fischer - Piano - Book

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Editor: Kurt von Fischer
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Piano

Mozart wrote piano variations throughout his career; the earliest examples date from 1766, while the last work originated in 1791, the year of his death. On his concert tours Mozart drew storms of applause for his improvisations. His sets of variations were written in immediate response to these extempore performances, drawing mainly on the substance oft he theme and its pianistic adornment.

This performing edition contains all of Mozart's piano variations, including the surviving fragments. It consists of the definitive Urtext from the New Mozart Edition, a byword in absolute reliability and an indispensable basis for performances on the highest artistic level.

Contents:

• Preface
• Eight Variations on the song "Laat ons Juichen Batavieren!" by Christian Ernst Graaf in G major K. 24 (= Anh. 208)
• Seven Variations on the Dutch song "Willem van Nassau" in D major K. 25
• Six Variations on "Mio caro Adone" in G major K. 180 (173c) from the Act 2 Finale of Antonio Salieri's opera La fiera die Venezia
• Twelve Variations on a minuet by Johann Christian Fischer in C major K. 179 (189a)
• Twelve Variations on the romance "Je suis Lindor" in E-flat major K. 354 (299a) from Antoine-Laurent Baudron's incidental music for Le Barbier de Seville
• Twelve Variations on the French song "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" in C major K. 265 (300e)
• Twelve Variations on the French song "La belle Francoise" in E-flat major K. 353 (300f)
• Nine Variations on the arietta "Lison dormait" in C major K. 264 (315d) from Nicolas Dezede's comic opera Julie
• Eight Variations on the chorus "Dieu d'amour" in F major K. 352 (374c) from Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry's opera Les Mariages Samnites
• Six Variations on the aria "Salve tu, Domine" in F major K. 398 (416e) from Giovanni Paisiello's Opera "I filosoft immaginarii"
• Ten Variations on the arietta "Unser dummer Pobel meint" in G major K. 455 from Christoph Willibald Gluck's singspiel "Die Pilgrime von Mekka"
• Twelve Variations on an Allegretto in B-flat major K. 500
• Nine Variations on a minuet by Jean Pierre Duport in D major K. 573
• Eight Variations on the song "Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding" in F major K. 613 from the singspiel "Der dumme Gartner" (by Benedikt Schack)
• Appendix - Fragments:
  • 1) Theme for a set of variations for organ or piano in C major K. Anh. 38 (383d) with facsimile of autograph
  • 2) Five variations on "Unser dummer Pobel meint" by Christoph Willibald Gluck in G major K. 455, incomplete early version
  • 3) Two variations on "Come un'agnello" in A major K. 460 (454a) from Giuseppe Sarti's opera "Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode"