Steinar_Lund skrev:
I morgenkonserten på P2 idag ble det bl.a. spilt Brahms' variasjoner over et verk av Haydn. Jeg fikk dessverre ikke med meg hvilket verk han varierte over, og jeg fant heller ikke noe på NRKs nettsider. Kan noen hjelpe meg?
Klipper fra wikipedia:
Despite the title of the work, there has been much debate since about 1950 over whether the theme is actually by Haydn. In 1870, Brahms's friend Carl Ferdinand Pohl, the librarian of the Vienna Philharmonic Society, who was working on a Haydn biography at the time, showed Brahms a transcription he had made of a piece attributed to Haydn titled Divertimento No. 1. The second movement bore the heading "St. Anthony Chorale".
While current usage still prefers the original title, Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale is the name favored by those who object to possibly perpetuating a misattribution. Even that name, however, tells us very little. To date, no other mention of the so-called "St. Anthony Chorale" has been found. Some sources state the Divertimento was probably written by Ignaz Pleyel, but this has not been definitely established. Even so, a further question is whether the composer of the Divertimento actually wrote the "St. Anthony Chorale" or simply quoted an older theme taken from an unknown source.