"Variations" Sheet Music by Alexander Goehr

$12.99 
Scored For: Piano
Composers: Alexander Goehr
Pages: 16
This product does NOT support transposition or digital playback
SKU: 489686
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Series: Edition Schott
Publisher ID: Q41779

My piece is subtitled ‘Homage to Haydn’. Why? Because it is modelled on Haydn’s Variations in F minor/major. But modelled does not imply pastiche or imitation. From Brahms onwards (if not before) there are countless examples of pieces modelled on others in a variety of ways. To do this does not imply a closeness to the original, rather inevitably a distance from it. I don’t know whether a listener would be the wiser for knowing the original. In any case a composition must stand on its own feet. Alexander Goehr