Variations on a Theme of Corelli

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Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Russian: Вариации на тему А. Корели, Variatsii na temu A. Koreli), Op. 42, is a group of 20 variations on Arcangelo Corelli's Sonata for violin, violone, and harpsichord (Op. 5, No. 12), composed by Russian Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1931. Corelli's work was itself a set of variations on the Folia theme, which was popularly used as the basis for variations in Baroque music.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great...

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Folia

La Folía (also spelled "Follia") is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes on record. It originated in the Iberian Peninsula. The epithet 'Folia' has several meanings in music. There is for instance a folk tune with the name Folia at the Canary Islands and a 'Folia de Reis' in Brazil...

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