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HAYDN_Piatti_Johnstone – Air and Variations (Hob. VI6, mvt. 3) – SOLO CELLO OR SOLO VIOLA AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Other Identification:
This piece appeared in a volume of pieces supposedly prepared by William Henry Squire, and indeed published in 1913. But after conversing with a number of specialists musicians it now appears that this arrangement was carried out previously by the great Italian cellist Alfredo Piatti.

So, where did the original piece come from? Here!:

Haydn – Sonata No. 6 in C Major for Violin and Viola, Hob. VI:6, mvt. 3: Tempo di Menuet, Variazione

I have belief that this piece was once played a lot, but in recent decades it has half disappeared from the cellists’ repertoire. It was even recorded by Pau Casals (see below).

Movements or sections:
Consists of the theme, and four variations.

Instrumentation:
SOLO CELLO AND STRING ORCHESTRA
or
SOLO VIOLA AND STRING ORCHESTRA

The music is available in 5 PDFs:
PDF 1 – Orchestral Score, orchestrated Johnstone
PDF 2 – All orchestral individual parts
PDF 3 – Originally ‘Piatti’ arranged cello and piano version
PDF 4 – Soloist VIOLA Part
PDF 5 – Soloist CELLO Part

Approximate difficulty:
SOLOIST – Difficult
Other parts – Easy to medium

Links (Audio – Visual), and known performances given by:
Minuet In C Major with Variations” Haydn, Cello, Pablo Casals Col 5821

At about 4 minutes duration I feel this could make a great ‘encore’ after playing a Haydn or whatever classical concerto with orchestra!

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