- Chorale Prelude on 'La Folia' Pasquini, Bernardo: - Partite Diverse di Follia. Listen to Vivaldi's Trio sonata for two violins and basso continuo (Variations on La Folia) performed by Jordi Savall with Hesperion XXI: The ‘theme of Corelli’ upon which Sergei Rachmaninov based his piano Variations Opus 42 is in fact ‘La Folia’ too. It originated in the dance music of Portugal. “There was a version of it used in The Addams Family.

Rachmaninov was very taken with its potential for variation treatment, and during the summer of 1931 he composed the 'Variations on a Theme of Corelli'. In most literature La Folia ceased to exist in the middle of the 19th century with a convulsion in the 1930's with the variations by Rachmaninoff and Ponce.

Par la suite il change les harmonies, la structure… Marin Marais, La Folia.

Elle aussi écrite en duo, Marais reprend exactement la mélodie de la variation 0.

But in fact the theme of La Folia has never been so popular for composers as in the last decades. La Folia, également appelée Follia (en italien) ou Folies d'Espagne, est une danse apparue au XV e siècle probablement au Portugal dont le thème a servi pour des variations à plus de 150 compositeurs , de Lully à Sergueï Rachmaninov en passant par Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, et Vangélis Papathanassíou.. Huit dernières mesures du thème (conséquent) :

La Folia is a music charity and production company that brings together instrumentalists, singers, actors, dancers, visual artists and writers to create new music, original projects and ground-breaking performances under the artistic directorship of Howard Moody.. Click here to read about Stone Songs. Corelli's ability to develop new music from this existing harmony might remind you of the way jazz musicians freely borrow today. Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Russian: Вариации на тему А. Корелли, Variatsii na temu A. Korelli), Op. Farrinel's Ground, from Apollo's Banquet; Faronell's Division on a Ground, from The Division Violin; Faronells Division on a Ground Les Variations sur un thème de Corelli (russe : Вариации на тему А. Корели, Variatsii na temu A. Koreli), Op. “La Folia has been used in films a lot of times before in different ways,” Adam Grannick, a film-maker and Folia devotee, tells BBC Culture. Kreisler introduced Rachmaninov to the tune 'La Folia', which he believed to be by Corelli, but which is of more ancient Portuguese origin.

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Now, let’s hear Sergei Rachmaninov’s 1931 Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op.

42, is set of variations for solo piano, written in 1931 by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.He composed the variations at his holiday home in Switzerland.