Back in 1873, when Johannes Brahms wrote his now-famous Variations on a Theme by Haydn, folks actually believed the jaunty little theme was written by Haydn. We've since found out otherwise, but it ...

Johannes Brahms thought he was embellishing music by Haydn when he devised his "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" for two pianos. History has proved that the theme is by someone else, but that hasn't ...

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Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

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Before he died at 77, Franz Joseph Haydn composed more than 500 works, including at least 104 symphonies. Last week the Haydn Society, which has been busying itself preparing a catalogue of Haydn ...