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Anton DIABELLI (1781-1858)
Anton DIABELLI was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van BEETHOVEN wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.DIABELLI was born in Mattsee near Salzburg. He was trained to enter the priesthood, but also took music lessons with Michael Haydn. He moved to Vienna to teach the piano and guitar before becoming partners with Pietro Cappi in 1818 and setting up a music publishing firm with him.
The composition for which DIABELLI is now best known was actually written as part of a publishing venture. In 1819, he decided to try to publish a volume of variations on a waltz he had penned expressly for this purpose, with one variation by every important Austrian composer living at the time, as well as several significant non-Austrians. Fifty composers responded with pieces, including SCHUBERT, an eleven-year-old Franz LISZT, and Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL. Carl CZERNY was enlisted to write a coda, and they were published as Vaterländischer Künstlerverein.
BEETHOVEN, however, instead of providing just one variation, provided thirty-three, and his were published in a volume of their own in 1824. They constitute what is generally regarded as one of the greatest of Beethoven's piano pieces and as the greatest set of variations of their time, and are generally known simply as the Diabelli Variations.
[Biography extract from Wikipedia]
Please find below Arrangements of Anton DIABELLI's Pieces solely published by FLEX Editions.
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