 The piece draws its inspiration from the main character of the Charles Dickens novel "The Pickwick Papers".Niccolò Paganini wrote a set of highly virtuosic variations on "God Save the King" as his Opus 9.Max Reger wrote "Variations and Fugue on 'Heil dir im Siegerkranz' (God Save the King)" for organ in 1901 after the death of Queen Victoria.