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." 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."
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