Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Variations on a Theme of Corelli (Russian: Вариации на тему А. Корели Variatsii na temu A. Koreli) Op. 42 is set of variations for solo piano written in 1931 by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He composed them at his holiday home in Switzerland.The theme is La Folia which was not in fact composed by Arcangelo Corelli but was used by him in 1700 as the basis for 23 variations in his Sonata for violin and continuo (violone and/or harpsichord) in D minor Op. 5 No. 12.