Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Ed Zubrow:
>
>>The piece then concludes with a fugue; in my limited experience, I don't
>>know of other Variations that use four and a half minute fugues (as opposed
>>to canons).
>
>I can't speak to time, but let me propose the Bach Goldbergs, the Brahms
>Variations on a Theme of Paganini, and the Reger Variations on a Theme of
>Mozart.

Could the final section of Britten's *Young Person's Guide to the
Orchestra* be considered a fugue w/ which a theme w/ variations is
concluded?

Walter Meyer