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Johnstone Creations – JOHANNES BRAHMS (Haydn) – Main theme from the St. Anthony Variations – this music has been specially produced for FOUR CELLOS or CELLO ORCHESTRA. Ideal for use in the Cello class etc. by young cello orchestras.

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – General Score (5 pages in all)

PDF 2 – All individual cello parts (6 pages in all)

The tempo indication is – Andante

General difficulty of the music – other brief Information:

EASY

The Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, now also called the Saint Anthony Variations, is a work in the form of a theme and variations, composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1873 at Tutzing in Bavaria. It consists of a theme in Bb major based on a “Chorale St Antoni”, eight variations, and a finale. The work was published in two versions: for two pianos, written first but designated Op. 56b; and for orchestra, designated Op. 56a. The orchestral version is better known and much more often heard than the two-piano version. The first performance of the orchestral version was given on 2 November 1873 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Brahms’s baton.

Brahms composed the work on this theme entitled “Chorale St. Antoni” found in a wind ensemble composition. At the time Brahms discovered it, the wind ensemble piece carried an attribution to the composer Joseph Haydn. Subsequent research has concluded that the wind piece Brahms used as a source does not fit Haydn’s style. Pleyel has been cited as a possible composer. Today the wind ensemble piece remains without clear attribution. A further question is whether the composer – whoever it was! – of the divertimento actually wrote the “St. Anthony Chorale” or simply quoted, in turn, an older theme taken from an unknown source. To date, no other mention of a “St. Anthony Chorale” has been found. The theme begins with a repeated ten-measure passage which itself consists of two intriguing five-measure phrases, a quirk that is likely to have caught Brahms’s attention.

The four cello version is transposed into C Major in order to make cello ensemble performance more comfortable. All four parts have interesting contributions. The first part uses the first four positions, whilst the other three are in first position (although with occasional extensions.)

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