Every third one is a canon at successively higher intervals, and all are based on the ground bass of an aria that returns at the end of this collection.
Number 25 is the slowest and the last of three in G minor. Number 16 begins with an emphatic G-major chord and is styled after a French overture, while number 30 quotes the tune "Cabbage and turnips have driven me away." Although number 7 is intended to be gigue tempo, Glenn Gould played it slowly. Every third one is a canon at successively higher intervals, and all are based on the ground bass of an aria that returns at the end of this collection. Named for its 14-year-old original performer, this is, FTP, what set of 30 variations by Johann Sebastian Bach?
Number 25 is the slowest and the last of three in G minor. Number 16 begins with an emphatic G-major chord and is styled after a French overture, while number 30 quotes the tune "Cabbage and turnips have driven me away."
{Goldberg} Variations