2/4 time
A seamless transition is achieved by ending Variation 3 with the single note C# and beginning Variation 4 with another single note C#.
The pace is faster now with the marking poco più moto and the energy of pairs of repeated sixteenth notes, alternating between the two hands, marking a quick beat. Above this ceaseless pulsing is a gentle melody in a long phrase of four bars.
The central section breaks the phrase into shorter versions lasting only two bars, increasing in intensity for three versions, thenfalling away for the fourth with a diminuendo and sostenuto.
One of Brahms's late works, the Intermezzo, Op. 119, No. 2 in E minor, is similar to this variation.
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