Diabelli
Americannoun
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Beethoven’s 33 variations on a theme by a certain businessman named Diabelli seems tailor-made for Tharp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
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
He does display impatience, though, with pianists who attempt what Brendel calls "the greatest of all piano works", Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, before they are ready.
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 Anton Schindler
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