Mendelssohn: Variations for Piano
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Editor: Holger M. Stüwe Instrumentation: Piano Binding: ISMN: 9790006535781 Size: 9.6 x 12.2 inches Pages: 86 Urtext / Critical Edition Description The Variations, Op. 54 were intended to be serious as they were contributed to a benefit album in aid of the Beethoven memorial in Bonn. The attribute refers less to the musical character of the work than the composers desire to write something quite different from the usual applause-seeking Variations brillantes of the period. And it is exactly this compositional skill which pianists, composers and music historians have ringing in their ears, when they describe Mendelssohn's Variations serieuses, Op. 54 as one of the key works of the Romantic piano repertoire. The Variations, Op. 54 gave the composer the impetus to study this music form in great depth. Following on directly from this work, Mendelssohn wrote the Variations in E-flat, Op. 82 and B-flat major, Op. 83, published posthum