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.

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:

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.

Diabelli's composition Pleasures of Youth: Six Sonatinas is a collection of six sonatinas depicting a struggle between unknown opposing forces.

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.

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.

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.

" Parody is used because of the banality of Diabelli's theme.

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.

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

While Beethoven's first variation stays close to the melody of Diabelli's theme, there is nothing waltz-like about it.

When in 1816 an act of Congress forced the foreign firm out of the United States, its British-born employees, now become American citizens -- Joseph Rolette, Joseph Renville and Alexis Bailly -- continued in the fur business.

When Diabelli died in 1858, Spina continued to run the firm, and published much music by Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.

By 1979 master plan development was handled by the firm of Sasaki & Associates, which continued to work alongside the university in the years that followed.

The firm was eventually closed in 1909, but the ram business was continued by James R Easton.

However, he continued to serve as chairman of his Washington-based Kemp Partners consulting firm and continued his involvement in charitable and political work until his death.

Lohan, who had collaborated with Mies on the New National Gallery, continued with existing projects but soon led the firm on his own independent path.

The deal went through, and while the firm basically became Commodore's production arm, they continued using the name MOS for some time so that manuals would not have to be reprinted.

Even after June 1940, official connections between Opel and America were not broken and monetary gain continued throughout the war which was controlled by the J. P Morgan firm, the Rüsselsheim plant was never given a major role in Germany's war preparations.

Although there was a brief public outcry regarding the high salary in comparison to the size of the country governed, the government's firm stance was that this raise was required to ensure the continued efficiency and corruption-free status of Singapore's " world-class " government.

The death of Henry senior at the age of 82 occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a business man of the same determination, the firm ’ s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.

The unionist tendency is still in evidence today, manifesting sometimes as a scepticism or opposition to devolution, firm support for the continued existence of the United Kingdom in the face of separatist nationalism, and a historic link with the cultural unionism of Northern Ireland.

The importance of paying respect to parents ( and elders ) lies with the fact that all physical bodily aspects of one's being were created by one's parents, who continued to tend to one's well-being until one is on firm footings.

The suit was eventually withdrawn, and the company continued its advertising response by publicly requesting an apology from the suing firm of Beasly Allen.

Callaghan and Wilson however were again adamant that a devaluation of the pound would create new social and economic problems and continued to take a firm stance against it.

After Olmsted's retirement and death, his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., continued the work of their firm, doing business as the Olmsted Brothers.

His firm, Edward Durell Stone & Associates, continued to exist in various forms until 1993.

In March 1946, despite repeated requests from Chiang, the Soviet Red Army under the command of general Malinovsky continued to delay pulling out of Manchuria while he secretly told the CPC forces to move in behind them, because Stalin wanted Mao to have firm control of at least the northern part of Manchuria before the complete withdrawal of the Soviets, which led to full-scale war for the control of the Northeast.

Despite his firm abolitionist stance, throughout his life he continued to express fears of uprising and rule by pardos ( mixed-race people ) and claimed that the governance of heterogeneous societies like Venezuela " will require an infinitely firm hand.

Nonetheless, human sacrifice continued, normally in secret, until West Africa came under firm colonial control.

* James Beeching ( 1788 – 1858 ) was a shipbuilder in the town, and his firm continued after his death well into the 20th century.

Pugin was the father of E. W. Pugin and Peter Paul Pugin, who continued his architectural firm as Pugin and Pugin.