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The oft-told but now questionable story of the origins of this work is that Beethoven at first refused categorically to participate in Diabelli's project, dismissing the theme as banal, a Schusterfleck or ' cobbler's patch ,' unworthy of his time.
Whether Schindler's story is true or not that Beethoven at first contemptuously dismissed Diabelli's waltz as a Schusterfleck ( rosalia / " cobbler's patch "), there is no doubt the definition fits the work perfectly – " musical sequences repeated one after another, each time modulated at like intervals " – as can be seen clearly in these three examples:
He points out that most of the variations do not emphasize the simple features of Diabelli's waltz: " Most of Beethoven's other variations thoroughly transform the surface of Diabelli's theme, and though motivic materials from the waltz are exploited exhaustively, its affective model is left far behind ".
The purpose of the new variations is to recall Diabelli's waltz so that the cycle does not spiral too far from its original theme.
" Parody is used because of the banality of Diabelli's theme.
The first of the three added variations is No. 1, a " mock-heroic " march which immediately follows Diabelli to open the set dramatically, echoing in the right hand the tonic triad of the theme while the left hand simply walks down in octaves Diabelli's descending fourth.
The third and final structural variation, in Kinderman's analysis, is No. 25, which shifts Diabelli's monotonous rhythm from the bass to the treble and fills the bass with a simple figure endlessly repeated in a " lumbering caricature ".
Kinderman summarizes, " Diabelli's waltz is treated first ironically as a march that is half-stilted, half-impressive, and then, at crucial points in the form, twice recapitulated in amusing caricature variations.
At the conclusion of the work, in the Fugue and last variation, reference to the melodic head of Diabelli's theme once again becomes explicit – indeed, it is hammered into the ground.
While Beethoven's first variation stays close to the melody of Diabelli's theme, there is nothing waltz-like about it.
Simple but powerful, Variation 9 is constructed out of the slimmest of materials, consisting of little more than Diabelli's opening grace-note and turn repeated in various registers.
Variation 12 is another divergence from Diabelli's two-part structure.
Diabelli's mild opening turn is turned into the powerful chords, and his repeated chords become a long silence.
For Barry Cooper, this is another humorous variation poking fun at Diabelli's theme.
Diabelli's melody is easily identified, but the harmonic progressions ( see bars 9 – 12 ) are unusual and the overall tonality is ambiguous.
Diabelli's two-part structure is maintained, but without repeats.
It has been suggested, too, that Beethoven is trying to tell us that Diabelli's theme was stolen from Mozart.
Tovey notes that it reproduces the opening of each half of Diabelli's theme quite simply, although the rest is very free, adding that " as a reaction from the impressively thoughtful and calm fughetta it has an intensely humorous effect ".
The structure is a foreshortening of Diabelli's theme.
Melodically, it is based on Diabelli's falling fourth, used in many of the preceding variations, as well as, most strikingly, on the least inspired, least promising part of Diabelli's theme, the note repeated ten times.

Diabelli's and between
Diabelli's firm continued to publish Schubert's work until 1823 when an argument between Cappi and Schubert terminated their business.

Diabelli's and .
As Schubert's total compositions number nearly 1000, Diabelli's firm was able to publish " new " Schubert works for more than 30 years after the composer's death.
Diabelli's publishing house expanded throughout his life, before he retired in 1851, leaving it under the control of Carl Anton Spina.
A sonatina of Diabelli's, presumably Sonatina in F major, Op.
Beethoven does not seek variety by using key-changes, staying with Diabelli's C-major for most of the set: among the first twenty-eight variations, he uses the tonic minor only once.
These chords lead back to Diabelli's C-major for Variation 33, a closing minuet.
At some point, Beethoven certainly did accept Diabelli's proposal, but rather than contributing a single variation on the theme, he planned a large set of variations.
From the earliest days this enigma has drawn comment, and the widest possible range of opinions of Diabelli's theme have been expressed.
Maynard Solomon in The Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination expresses this idea symbolically, as a journey from the everyday world (" Diabelli's theme conveys ideas, not only of the national, the commonplace, the humble, the rustic, the comic, but of the mother tongue, the earthly, the sensuous, and, ultimately, perhaps, of every waltzing couple under the sun " to a transcendent reality.
A careful study of these late additions reveals that they stand out from the others by having in common a return to, and special emphasis on, the melodic outline of Diabelli's waltz, in the mode of parody.
Without such a device, considering the great variety and complexity of the set, Diabelli's waltz would become superfluous, " a mere prologue to the whole.
But the added, structural variations recall Diabelli's waltz, not Bach or Mozart or Cramer, and clearly highlight its most unimaginative aspects, especially its repetition of the C major tonic chord with G emphasized as the high note and the static harmony thus created.
It opens the concluding section of the series which moves from the ridiculous to the sublime, from Diabelli's waltz to Beethoven's minuet, along the way incorporating the history of music from Bach, through Mozart, to the world of Beethoven's own last piano sonatas.
Diabelli's theme, a waltz with off-beat accents and sharp changes in dynamics, was never intended for dancing.
Commentators do not agree on the intrinsic musical value of Diabelli's theme.

composition and Youth
He performed the same composition at Carnegie Hall with the Vermont Youth Orchestra on September 14, 2004 and with the New York Philharmonic on September 12, 2009.
Among them was Sonic Youth, who later quoted the song " Come on Down " on its own composition " Nevermind ( What Was It Anyway )".
No common ideology united the UPC, the composition of which ranged from the near reactionary Onama to the radical John Kakonge, leader of the UPC Youth League.
In 2003, the SBS Radio and Television Youth Orchestra gave the premiere of Sydney Singing, a composition by Sculthorpe for clarinet solo ( Joanne Sharp ), harp solo ( Tamara Spigelman ), percussion solo ( Peter Hayward ) and string orchestra.
" Rumours in the Air " from Midnight Madness appeared on the former, while the latter featured " Wild and Innocent Youth ," a rollicking Blades-Keagy composition that never saw release on a Night Ranger album.
After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music.

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