2, the first of his compositions that was published in Germany.
Without inquiring too curiously into the exact time of its production and into the exact meaning of "a few quarter-hours," also leaving it an open question whether the composer did or did not revise his first conception of the Variations before sending them to Vienna, I shall regard this unnumbered work--which, by the way, in the Breitkopf and Hartel edition is dated 1824--on account of its greater simplicity and inferior interest, as an earlier composition than the Premier Rondeau (C minor), Op.

1, dedicated to Mdme.

de Linde (the wife of his father's friend and colleague, the rector Dr.Linde), a lady with whom Frederick often played duets.

What strikes one at once in both of them is the almost total absence of awkwardness and the presence of a rarely-disturbed ease.

They have a natural air which is alike free from affected profundity and insipid childishness.