Adagio, Allegretto und Variationen über "The Ploughboy"

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1838) was in his time a
highly esteemed pianist and composer, who excelled
particularly in improvisation. He studied, among others,
with Mozart, Albrechtsberger and Salieri. In his extensive
creative output, the variation form is found ever and ever
again, so e. g. in his early "Three Variations for Piano,
op. 1". The present arrangement for oboe and piano is
based on the first of these, its theme being "The Plough
Boy", taken from the opera "The Farmer" by William
Shield (1750-1819).

Because of the clear division between melody and
accompaniment, the piece seems especially well suited
for an arrangement of this kind and it reminds of the only
work originally written for oboe and orchestra of
Hummel's: Adagio and Tema con variazioni, op. 102.

The arrangement has the same key and nearly the
same musical text as Hummel's version for piano.
A few additional dynamic marks and articulations
more appropriate to the wind instrument have been
supplemented by the editor.