Derek Lim wrote:

>Hi everybody, Just a quick question: Is the last movement of Brahms'
>Fourth Symphony a Chaconne or a Passacaglia? A friend of mine insists
>it is a Passacaglia, but I think it is a Chaconne.

I've always heard passacaglia.  Anyway, according to New Groves and other
sources, the differences between a passcaglia and a chaconne have never
been definitively established.

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