Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Variations on Come un’agnello, KV 460/454a

1784 · KV^1,2 460 · KV^3,6 454a

The theme is from Giuseppe Sarti’s opera Fra i due litiganti. There exist two versions of the variations, one incomplete with two variations and one with eight variations. The version with eight variations is possibly spurious.

Recommended editions

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Bärenreiter) · IX/26 · BA 4525-01 · Variationen für Klavier · ed. Kurt von Fischer [version with two variations]
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (Bärenreiter) · X/29/2 · BA 4612-01 · Werke zweifelhafter Echtheit / Band 2: Bläser-Divertimenti, Klavier-Violinsonaten, Klaviermusik · ed. Franz Giegling/Wolfgang Plath/Wolfgang Rehm [version with eight variations and version in G major with six variations]
Bärenreiter · BA 5746 · Variationen für Klavier · ed. Kurt von Fischer [version with two variations]
Henle · HN 116 · Variationen für Klavier · ed. Ewald Zimmermann [version with two variations and version with eight variations]
Henle · HN 117 · Variationen für Klavier · ed. Ewald Zimmermann [version with two variations and version with eight variations]
Könemann · K 112 · Variationen · ed. István Máriássy [version with two variations]

Version with two variations

These variations are incomplete.

Duration: 4'

Difficulty: 2

Variations on Come un’agnello, KV 460/454a

Version with eight variations

These variations are possibly spurious.

Duration: 12' 30"

Difficulty: 3.5