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03 10 variations on a theme by Gluck
03 10 variations on a theme by Gluck
Artist: Walter Schenkman
Category:
Classicism
Composer:
W. A. Mozart
Supported languages: Italiano
Extended description:
The art of the variation
as practiced by Beethoven and near contemporaries
as practiced by Beethoven and near contemporaries
Mozart wrote his 10 Variations on Gluck's "Unser dummer Poebel meint" (our dumb peoples think...) in a single August day in 1784 as a tribute to his great operatic predecessor, Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck, some 40 years his senior, repaid the compliment by treating both the young Mozart and his wife to dinner in a fine restaurant.
The simple lines of Gluck's theme are clearly heard in the first few variations of Mozart's work. In the later variations of the series, Mozart complicates matters by placing those lines in the bass and providing new counterpoints in the upper voices. He also introduces free cadenzas at various points towards the close of this charming composition, which is otherwise generally considered to be one of the finest among his numerous sets of variations for piano solo.
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