Event listing: Andreas Staier fortepiano | Wigmore Hall | Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 19:30

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Wigmore Hall36 Wigmore Street, London, Greater London, W1U 2BP, United Kingdom

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Various	Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, variations on a theme by Anton Diabelli
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	6 Bagatelles for piano, Op.126
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	33 Variations for piano in C major "Diabelli Variations", Op.120

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Andreas Staier

Fortepiano

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Andreas Staier reinvents the Diabelli Variations

David Allen, 21st June

The story of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations is well known. The composer and publisher Anton Diabelli wanted to promote his new firm, and chose to do so by inviting fifty composers of varying fame to write a variation on his own waltz theme. Beethoven was, of course, the dominant figure in Vienna at the end of the 1810s, and his variation was to be the highlight.

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