VARIATIONS FOR PIANO

Composer's Note:

VARIATIONS FOR PIANO (1967; rev. 1982) is a student work composed when I began private study with a teacher.  My teacher, Myron Fink, a brilliant musician and composer, identified some compositional “tricks” I tended to rely on.  His assignment was to compose a set of variations for piano in which each variation was distinctly different from the others.  Variations for Piano was the result.  After making a few revisions I decided it was good enough to be seen.

The Theme is followed by twelve variations, with the last being a four-voice fugue.