28 Variations

Full title 28 Variations on an original theme op. 15 / 28 Variationen über ein achttaktiges Thema op. 15
Date composed 1907
Details Composition completed October 1907.
Performance duration: ca. 9 min.
Manuscript sources NYPL JOB 73-158, holograph score (4 folded folios). Title page gives original title as 30 Variationen über ein kurzes Thema für Klavier (mit 3 Pedalen); the number 30 was then crossed out and replaced with the number 28. Also on title page: Wien, 6. Oktober 1907. Date at conclusion of score: 21./X. 1907.
Publication details Originally published in 1923 by Universal Edition (performing score, U.E. 6367). Publisher of record now ACA.
Availabiity Performing score available from ACA; score for perusal or study available from KWF.
Recordings Leonore Aumaier (CD: Camerata CMCD 280245, Weigl, Müller-Hermann, Webern: Cellomusic of the Fin de Siècle in Vienna, 2011).
Joseph Banowetz (CD: Naxos 8.572423, Karl Weigl: Isle of the Dead, Six Fantasies, Pictures and Tales, Night Fantasies, Dance of the Furies, 2012).
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28 Variations on an original theme op. 15 / 28 Variationen über ein achttaktiges Thema op. 15
Leonore Aumaier

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)
24 November 1931 Vienna, Streicher Hall, Neue Wiener Musikgemeinde: Marianne Munk Weissberger, piano. Also on program: songs by Wilhelm Kienzl.
24 November 1931 Vienna, Streicher Hall, Neue Wiener Musikgemeinde: Marianne Munk Weissberger, piano. Also on program: songs by Korngold, Kienzl, Theodor Streicher, and Alban Berg; and chamber works by Kornauth and Franz Schmidt.
18 June 1935 Vienna: Hans Pawlitzo, piano. Also on program: songs by Egon Wellesz; Ernst Kanitz; Josef Rinaldini; Paul Pisk, with Margarete Herbst, soprano.
26 November 1941 New York, Studio Club, YMCA, New Collegium Musicum, First Concert of Chamber Music: Charles Rosen, piano. Also on program: works by Daniel Gregory Mason; Ed. Horsman; E. Charles; Edward Harris; Hans Heller; Charles Haubiel; Rosy Geiger-Kullman; Kurt Roger.