Joseph Haydn
Variations in f minor (Sonata) Hob. XVII:6
Joseph Haydn
Variations in f minor (Sonata) Hob. XVII:6
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Editor Sonja Gerlach
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN912
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Description:
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.?