In a concluding gesture its composer brings back the original theme in bras
In a concluding gesture its composer brings back the original theme in brass, while in the concluding fugue the instruments again enter from highest to lowest. Its theme was chosen from another composer's incidental music for a drama entitled Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, which explains its alternate title of Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. FTP, name this 1946 orchestral piece written to appeal to adolescent audiences, a work by Benjamin Britten.
In a concluding gesture its composer brings back the original theme in brass, while in the concluding fugue the instruments again enter from highest to lowest.
{Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra} (acc. early {Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell})