| Composition Year | 1854 |
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| Genre Categories | Pieces; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player |
| Related Works | Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, by Robert Schumann Theme and Variations, WoO 24, by Robert Schumann Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op.23, by Johannes Brahms |
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| Work Title | Theme in Es major |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Schumann, Robert |
| Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | see WoO 24 |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IRS 157 |
| Key | E-flat major |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1854 |
| First Publication. | 1893 |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | piano |
| Related Works | Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, by Robert Schumann Theme and Variations, WoO 24, by Robert Schumann Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op.23, by Johannes Brahms |
| External Links | All Music Guide (for the set of 5 variations on this theme, WoO 24, by the composer) |
| Extra Information | More or less identical (but shifted down by a fifth) to the theme of the slow movement of the violin concerto in D minor WoO 23 (September-October 1853), but Schumann believed that he was hearing it for the first time when he wrote it down in 1854, as the story goes?... (indeed this theme- on which Schumann also began to write variations himself - his Geister-Variationen, 5 variations on this theme - WoO 24... - is mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the violin concerto.) - Schissel
Further note: the variations WoO 24 were not published until 1939. In "Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters" there is an annotated exchange between Brahms and Joachim in which Brahms expresses his concern that Clara would not approve of his using this theme for a published set of variations, because of the very personal circumstances (he already had composed the variations, which in the event he published with her blessing (she did request that he not note the date that Schumann composed the theme on his score), and which were then dedicated to Julie Schumann). |
