Introduction and Variations on 'Le carnaval de Venise'

Demersseman wrote Introduction and Variations on ‘Le carnaval de Venise’ for saxophonist # Louis Adolphe Mayeur, a student of Adolphe Sax. Mayeur went on to write his own version Grande fantaisie brillante sur ‘Le carnaval de Venise’. Both works are based on the folk song O Mamma, Mamma Cara, which was popularized in 1829 by Niccolò Paganini in his theme and twenty variations he called Il Carnevale Di Venezia," Op. 10.