Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op.24 (Piano)

Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24 (Piano)

- Urtext edition based on all known sources and the latest musicological findings

- With optimum page turns

- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)

- Includes fingering and suggestions on performance practice (Ger/Eng)

Christian Köhn is a pianist with a deep understanding of Brahms’ piano music.  Now he has edited a new Urtext edition of Brahms’ Variations (1861) on an eight-bar theme from Handel’s Keyboard Suite No. 1 (Suite de pièces de Clavecin, Vol. 2).

Köhn has drawn on every available source and incorporated the most recent musicological discoveries.  With his fingering, a well-presented layout and optimum page turns, the volume meets all the demands of a practical performing edition. A detailed foreword illuminates the work’s genesis and sources while presenting valuable information on contemporary performance practice. 

This scholarly-critical edition of the Handel Variations adds a central work to Bärenreiter’s comprehensive series of Brahms’ piano music in Urtext editions.