Haydn’s last piano work is also considered to be his most famous single work for this instrument. The minor theme is filled with emotional depth: “a melancholy andante in f minor, with variations, as only a genius can do them, that almost sounds like a free fantasia” (thus described in a review of the time). The form is also demanding: not merely one theme but two one in a major key, the other in a minor one are varied in turn. The autograph gives one to believe that the work was originally intended to be the first movement of a sonata. This single edition has been taken from the recently revised volume of “Piano pieces” (HN 224) and furnished with a detailed commentary.Henle also recently published a facsimile of Haydn’s autograph of the Variations in f minor: HN 3218.?
| Arrangement | Piano |
| Genres | Classical |
| NumberOfPages | 20 |
| Series | Henle Urtext Editions |
| Publisher | G. Henle Verlag |
| Contributors | Joseph Haydn, Franz(Composer) |
| ISMN | 9790201809120 |