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Who performed the first private performance of Variations on a Theme by Haydn?
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms.
The first private performance of the two-piano version of Variations on a Theme by Haydn was performed by Johannes Brahms and his close friend Clara Schumann at a private gathering in Bonn, Germany, in August 1873.1