Diabelli
Americannoun
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In 1967, at age 19, he made his grand-scale New York debut, performing Beethoven’s notoriously difficult Diabelli Variations at Philharmonic Hall.
From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2020
The metaphor for the fast ending might be the string quartet as particle accelerator, shooting "Diabelli" particles into each other and seeing what new particles with dazzlingly strange properties might result.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2015
One of the world's greatest pianists, Andras Schiff, played his 60th birthday concert on Saturday - a hugely demanding programme of the Goldberg Variations by Bach and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2013
Mr. Serkin took an outgoing, celebratory approach to the Diabelli waltz that is the subject of these variations, letting its mundane qualities speak for themselves without stressing them.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
Diabelli, who was apprehensive of having too large a volume, when he heard of twenty-five Variations, was at last obliged to accept thirty-three Variations instead of seven, for his eighty ducats.
From Life of Beethoven by Schindler, Anton
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