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How many variations are in the finale of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E Minor?
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Johannes Brahms
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The finale of Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E Minor contains 30 highly intricate variations.1
This movement is structured as an extended chaconne, featuring variations built upon a repeated bass melody that Brahms derived from J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 150.213