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Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
For the first time: The
complete Diabelli Variations
Ludwig van Beethoven:
33 Variations
on a Waltz op. 120
and
. Variations on a
Given Theme
Composed by Vienna’s
Most Excellent
Composers and Virtuosos
“Diabelli Variations”
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Edited by Mario Aschauer
With notes on performance practice by the
editor
☞ BA 9656 · approx. € 27.95
To appear in December 2019
from: Variations on a Given Theme · BA 9656
Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations”, written between 1819 and 1823,
mark the pinnacle of his œuvre for variations and next to Bach’s
“Goldberg Variations” form one of the most important contributions
to this genre. In addition to Beethoven, 50 other
composers from Austria, mainly Vienna, followed Diabelli’s call to
create variations for his famous waltz, among them Czerny,
Moscheles, Fr. X. Mozart, Schubert, the 11-year-old Liszt and
J. N. Hummel.
The variations first printed by Diabelli fictively as “Fatherlandish
Union of Artists Part I” (Beethoven’s op. 120) and “Part II” (the 50
variations of Vienna’s “most excellent composers and virtuosos”) are
presented here by Mario Aschauer for the first time in one edition.
Furthermore the variations of Part II appear in an Urtext edition for
the first time. The musical text is based on a meticulous study of the
sources and for the first time relevant discrepancies between the
main sources are presented in light grey print.
New Issue Title
New Publications II/2019 · The Programme 12