Beethoven's Diabelli Variations is a monumental work that stands alongside Bach’s Goldberg Variations as one of the two greatest sets of variations for piano ever composed. In early 1819 the music ...
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In 1819, Anton Diabelli, a Viennese music publisher, composed a little waltz and sent it to dozens of composers—he wanted each of them to write and send him a single variation, which he’d publish ...
Igor Levit’s first recording for Sony was of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, and his second of Bach’s six keyboard partitas. His latest release features monumental works by both of those ...
Beethoven's Diabelli Variationsis a monster of a piece. The composer and publisher Anton Diabelli had asked the great and the good among composers of the time (1819) for a variation each on a simple ...
The Music: When, in 1819, music publisher Anton Diabelli invited Schubert, Czerny, Hummel, Liszt and Beethoven to write a variation on his, let’s be frank, spectacularly rubbish waltz theme, Beethoven ...
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp 34, 35 and 76). It’s been long discontinued but he’s now returned to that ...
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