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''Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge'', Op. 10, is a work for string orchestra by Benjamin Britten. It was written in 1937 at the request of Boyd Neel, who conducted his orchestra at the premiere of the work at that year's Salzburg Festival. It was the work that brought Britten to international attention.〔(Music Web International )〕 ==Background== Benjamin Britten studied with Frank Bridge from 1927. In 1932 he began writing a set of variations on a theme from one of Bridge's works, as a tribute to his teacher, but he was distracted by other matters and the work went nowhere.〔(Classical Archives )〕 In May 1937,〔(Linn Records )〕 the organisers of the Salzburg Festival invited Boyd Neel and his orchestra to perform three works at that year's Festival, in August, only three months away. One of those works had to be a previously unperformed work by a British composer. Neel knew Britten from having conducted his film score for ''(Love From a Stranger )'' in 1936,〔 so he asked him to write a new work for a string orchestra. Britten accepted the commission and immediately started work on a new set of variations on a theme by Bridge.〔 Britten took as his theme the second of Bridge's ''Three Idylls for string quartet'', Op. 6, No. 2.〔(Naxos Direct )〕 The first sketch was completed in 10 days,〔 and the work was fully scored by 12 July.〔 He dedicated the work "to F.B. A tribute with affection and admiration".〔 Both Bridge and Britten attended rehearsals of the work.〔 The work was given its concert premiere, as planned, on 27 August 1937 in Salzburg. However, its broadcast premiere occurred two days earlier; it was played live on Radio Hilversum on 25 August.〔(Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music )〕 Its British premiere took place on 5 October of the same year.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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