3-465: The Variations on the name "Abegg" in F major is a piece ( theme with variations ) for piano by Robert Schumann , composed between 1829 and 1830, while as a student in Heidelberg , and published as his Opus 1. The name is believed to refer to Schumann's fictitious friend, Meta Abegg, whose surname Schumann used through a musical cryptogram as the motivic basis for the piece. The name Meta
6-415: Is composed of: This article about a classical composition is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . F major F major is a major scale based on F , with the pitches F, G , A , B ♭ , C , D , and E . Its key signature has one flat . Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor . The F major scale is: F major is the home key of
9-521: Is considered to be an anagram of the word " tema " ( Latin ). Another suggestion is Pauline von Abegg. Apparently, when he was twenty years old, Schumann met her and dedicated this work to her, as witnessed in Clara Schumann 's edition of her husband's piano works. The first five notes of the theme are A, B ♭ (B), E, G, and G. This use of pitch names as letters was also used by Schumann in other compositions, such as his Carnaval . It
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