Friedrich Kiel - Op. 17, Variations and Fugue in F minor w/ sheet music 

Спасибо автору этого ролика! Никогда не слышал эту прекрасную музыку!!!

This oozes German romanticism. Yet it doesn't fall into the excesses of many romantic composers, it keeps a dignified, 18th century bearing.

Magical, stupendous.

There is a legend that Kiel's Variations op. 17 were the model for Brahms's Handel Variations. This is not true. Brahms came to know Kiel's work shortly after completing his own. Ernst Rudorff was witness when Brahms read through Kiel's score the first time. According to Rudorff Brahms said, not amused: "What are my Handel Variations other than this piece!"

The modern piano sounds awful.

Var. 13 sounds like both a quote of Mazeppa and one of Brahms's Paganini variations

Very nice, but people do not play quite that fast. It sounds fantastic though.