{{short description|Musical composition}} {{EngvarB|date=October 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox musical composition | name = Variations | subtitle = for Cello Solo | type = | image = Graham Waterhouse.jpg | caption = Graham Waterhouse in 2011 | composer = Graham Waterhouse | composed = {{Start date|2019}} | catalogue = | performed = {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2020}}|location=Vienna}} | published = {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|2020}}|location=Mainz}}, Schott | scoring = }} '''''Variations for Cello Solo''''' (''Variationen für Violoncello solo'') is a composition written by Graham Waterhouse in 2019. The variations depict characters of personalities. The cellist and composer performed the world premiere in Vienna in 2020. The composition was published by Schott the same year.
== History == The cellist and composer Graham Waterhouse has written many works of chamber music including cello, but few works for solo cello, besides the ''Three Pieces for Solo Cello'' in 1996.<ref name="Culot" /> He composed a set of variations for cello solo in December 2019 for a family gathering. Similar to Elgar's ''Enigma Variations'', the character variations depict family members in characteristic moods, movements and manners. The early variations stay closely to the theme; later variations are more loosely connected to it.<ref name="Score" /> The last variation is expanded to a coda, which returns to a repetition of the theme, as a symbol for the family's continuity.<ref name="Score" />
The composer played the public premiere at the Alte Schmiede in Vienna on 14 February 2020,<ref name="Schott" /> as part of a chamber music program with soprano Beata Beck and pianist Nino Gurevich, including works by Leonard Bernstein, Friedrich Cerha, Richard Dünser, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill.<ref name="Vienna" /> The composition was published by Schott in Mainz the same year,<ref name="Schott" /> dedicated to Young-Chang Cho, the composer's former teacher at the Folkwang Hochschule.<ref name="Score" /> The duration is given as 8 minutes.<ref name="Schott" /> The composition is part of a concert on 6 March 2021 at the Gasteig in Munich, with music by Beethoven and Waterhouse for one to five players, with Katharina Sellheim, David Frühwirth, Namiko Fuse and Konstantin Sellheim.<ref name="Gasteig" />
== References == {{reflist | 30em | refs =
<ref name="Culot">{{cite web | last = Culot | first = Hubert | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/july04/Waterhouse.htm | title = Graham Waterhouse (b. 1962) | date = July 2004 | publisher = musicweb-international.com | access-date = 16 March 2012 }}</ref>
<ref name="Gasteig">{{cite web | url = https://www.gasteig.de/veranstaltungen/-skylla-und-charybdis-kammermusik-von-graham-waterhouse-und-ludwig-van-beethoven.html,v67561 | title = "Skylla und Charybdis" / Kammermusik von Graham Waterhouse und Ludwig van Beethoven | publisher = Gasteig | date = March 2021 | access-date = 5 March 2021 }}</ref>
<ref name="Schott">{{cite web | url = https://schottmusiclondon.com/shop/variaschons-no445467.html | title = Graham Waterhouse / Variations / for violoncello solo | publisher = Schott Music | access-date = 19 October 2020 }}</ref>
<ref name="Score">{{cite book | title = Variations / Variationen / for / für Violoncello solo | publisher = Schott Music | date = 2020 }}</ref>
<ref name="Vienna">{{cite web | url = https://www.alte-schmiede.at/programm/2020-02-14-2000/ | title = Variations - Ludwig - Farao | website = alte-schmiede.at | date = 14 February 2020 | language = de | access-date = 26 October 2020 }}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStrfnxkEuc&t=1764s Graham Waterhouse: ''Variations'' from ''Skylla und Charybdis'' (2021)] on YouTube
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