Some famous examples of this form are Charles Ives' "Variations on America" and Mozart's "Twelve Variations on Vous dirai-je, Maman" K. 265/300e, a French folk song that most people now know as ...

In 1955, a young man from Canada stood the classical music world on its ear. Glenn Gould’s recording of Bach harpsichord music on a modern piano was one of the most significant musical events of the ...

Thanks to Copland, Haydn, Beethoven and Schumann, nothing could come close to being predictable, monotonous or less than disarming. And one aspect of the concert never varied: Ax's eloquent artistry.

Our "How to Listen" series takes on Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” How variations on a Chilean protest song form a modern classic.

It was a genre of music into which he had never before ventured, thinking variations almost a form of musical ‘sheep counting’ (in the most respectful sense) and thus perfect for an insomniac. Luckily ...

What makes Bach's Goldberg Variations tick? Pianist Jeremy Denk reveals how Bach's musical DNA — a simple strand of bass notes — is fleshed out into the beautiful melody that fuels the Goldbergs.

Edvard Grieg's "Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folksong (1876) was a work so personal that the composer would only perform it privately.

It seemed a simple request. In 1819, an Italian music publisher named Anton Diabelli asked Ludwig van Beethoven to be among the composers who would write a variation on a simple little 50-second ...

Flash musical: College exam interrupted by variation on "Les Miserables" By William Goodman September 29, 2011 / 3:02 PM EDT / CBS News ...