Diabelli variations
The Variations Diabelli indicate a series of Variation S for Piano made up in the years 1820 by about fifty German and Austrian type-setters on short a Valse that the editor of music Anton Diabelli had proposed with their imagination. Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt counted among those.
33 Variations on a waltz of Diabelli of Beethoven (opus 120)
Beethoven was inspired the most by all: in 1823, it composed on this thirty-three topic variations and published them under the opus 120, with a dedication with Antonia Brentano. Diabelli itself earlier accommodated this work visionary like the best attempt of the kind since the Variations Goldberg of Bach, made up eighty years. The concern of the variation pushed until the dissolution of the topic is an aspect characteristic of the musical thought of the last period of Beethoven: besides the type-setter preferred for his collection the title 33 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli (literally 33 transformations on a waltz of Diabelli ) at the end Variazionen .
Variations of the other type-setters
These variations were published in a collection, alphabetically.
Orientation discographic
- Schnabel (1937)
- Serkin (1957), Sony
- Arrau (1985), Philips
- Richter (1986), Philips & (1988) Moscow Studio Files
- Brendel (1991), Philips - Alfred Brendel had recorded work in 1964 for Vox,
- Pollini (1998), DG
- Kovacevich (1968), Philips
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