Johannes Brahms -- Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn -- Score

Sometimes a piece of music has a very descriptive name, sometimes a name that evokes all kinds of imagery, and sometimes the name is a simple straightforward description. But sometimes you have a piece like this, with a name that's actually highly misleading. This isn't Brahms' fault, of course. The piece of music he based his variations on, a wind serenade, seems to have been attributed to Haydn, possibly to increase sales, or possibly just by accident. Modern scholarship is fairly well agreed that Haydn never wrote it, with some suggestions that it came from Ignaz Pleyel, but that isn't definitive either. Even the title of "St. Anthony Chorale" doesn't have any source before the piece Brahms started with. But regardless of where it came from, Brahms took the unusual ten-bar phrases and turned them into one of the best-known examples of an orchestral theme-and-variations.
Score sourced through the International Music Score Library Project / Petrucci Music Library: ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e2/IMSLP262873-PMLP03585-Brahms_Werke_Band_3_Breitkopf_JB_7_Op_56a_scan.pdf
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[@alvinlee3870]

7:40 variation 5

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9:45 variation 7

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13:09 Finale

[@alanbean4243]

Very nice

[@SynchroScore]

Glad you like it!

[@ratbill2633]

2:10

[@lacoral78]

Thanks for your work .... its great. Could you add the links to go streight to each variation??... please???

[@yu-hengwang8338]

Thanks for the music to the Haydn Variations on such high resolution score video. Love the work you are doing. I was just wondering how the music to these videos are licensed. Is the original owner contacted and asked if the music can be used? Is the music taken from a specific place where copyright is dealt with? Do you just take the music from somewhere and put a disclaimer in the description and KZbin marks that the music is not owned? Would love to know.

[@SynchroScore]

Well, the majority of the music that I use is taken from KZbin itself. Now, KZbin has agreements with record labels such that their music can be played in KZbin videos, and the record label receives the resulting ad revenue in compensation. Even if I were otherwise eligible for monetization of my videos, that money would still go to the copyright holder of the original recording. I do have a disclaimer that I do not own the component parts of the video as standard language in my descriptions, and if you look below the, you can see the license and publisher listed by KZbin, along with a link to their version of the original recording. There are still sometimes problems, with a few of my videos getting blocked, some of them by accident due to the automated system identifying the wrong performer. And, I'm more than happy to take requests for future videos.

[@brucewang5073]

No one puts 2:03, VARIATION I

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10:09

[@yuna3386]

Var 6 8:32

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Var 5 7:41

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Var 4 6:05

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Var 3 4:19

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Var 2 3:21

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Var 8 12:12

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10:58