Diabelli

It seems that Dr. Brandt is obsessed with his "Diabelli" Variations, and has decided to spend her final days examining the composer's sketchbooks in order to find out what inspired him to write an hour-long set of variations on an ordinary little waltz tune.

Jane Fonda and Beethoven -- Together on Broadway 2009

His last three years were occupied with three piano sonatas, the "Diabelli Variations" and five string quartets, works in which Mr. Sachs detects an urge on the composer's part to turn self-revelation into a universal message.

Destiny in D Minor 2010

Diabelli (Don Amendolia), a 19th-century music publisher, asks the most important composers of the Austrian Empire, including Schubert, Liszt and Beethoven, to write a variation on his work for a proposed book.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: 33 Variations, Two Men of Florence 2009

Grieg's, however, is a monumental set of variations on a theme, rather like Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations."

A Pianist's Pilgrimage 2008

Grieg's is a monumental set of variations on a theme, rather like Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations."

Norwegian Mood 2008

By the way, I heard a concert by Paul Hersh once in which, like Kahane, he played the Diabelli and Goldberg's back to back I don't remember which was first.

How Lisa Hirsch 2007

I am reminded of Donald Francis Tovey's remark about the musical form of theme and variations — if a theme is near perfection, and complete in itself, it is not nearly so eligible as a subject for variations; while an indifferent theme, even the "cobbler's patchwork" theme Diabelli gave Beethoven, can bear seeds which a greater mind can bring, quite wonderfully, to fruition.

Too Perfect Hoffmann, Donald 1967

Accordingly, accompanied by the publisher, Diabelli, he called at

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

Beethoven's great Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli were actually described in the publisher's puff as worthy of their kinship with the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

His next commission was a simple one, consisting of an order early in the spring of 1823 from Diabelli, composer and head of a large publishing house in Vienna, for six variations on a waltz by him

Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905