Diabelli

[ dee-ah-bel-ee ]

noun

1. An·to·ni·o [ahn-, toh, -nee-oh], 1781–1858, Austrian composer and music publisher.

Example Sentences

Historically, composers have gone one of two ways: by revisiting the beginning, as in the Aria of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, or with the potential for further development, as in Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations.

From New York Times

Slowly, slowly, Mitsuko Uchida adds to her Beethoven discography — these “Diabelli” Variations now joining her five sonatas and two surveys of the piano concertos, with Kurt Sanderling and Simon Rattle.

From New York Times

For a long time, Small has had a bucket-list desire to perform Beethoven’s famously challenging Diabelli Variations.

From Washington Post

“The Diabelli to me is much more than music,” he says.

From Washington Post

For inspiration, he looks back to the tenacity of Fleisher, but also to contemporaries like Anton Kuerti and Stephen Kovacevich, both pianists who suffered near-fatal strokes — Kuerti’s onstage during a 2013 concert in Miami — and both of whom went on to full recoveries, including performances of the Diabelli Variations.

From Washington Post