Beethoven's Diabelli VariationsOxford University Press, 1999 - 220 páginas Beethoven's Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, his longest and most complex piece for piano, stands beside the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the late quartets as one of the monumental achievements of his last period. In this first extended study of these variations, William Kinderman investigates their compositional origins and explores them in the context of Beethoven's other works of this time. Kinderman shows how the composer transforms, parodies, and ultimately transcends Diabelli's commonplace waltz in a fascinating series of historical allusions to other composers in the final variations. Kinderman's discussion provides considerable insight into Beethoven's working methods and illuminates the structure of the finished work, and ultimately the nature of the creative process itself. This new reissue of Kinderman's classic text includes a free CD of his celebrated recording of the Diabelli Variations, described by Andras Schiff as "a very vivid sounding experience." |
Conteúdo
The Interrupted Genesis of the Variations | 3 |
The Early Sketches 1819 | 11 |
9 | 26 |
Plans for the Closing Variations Vars 26 27 30 | 38 |
The Late Sketches 18223 | 45 |
Vars 32 | 52 |
The Autograph Vars 29 | 58 |
50 | 76 |
61 | 84 |
Beethovens Treatment of the Theme | 96 |
The Opening Variations | 110 |
Preface | 133 |
216 | |
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Adagio Alan Tyson Allegro Arietta Artaria Artaria 201 ascending Autograph Leaf Bach bass Beethoven Beethoven's compositional process Beethoven's late Beethoven's sketches beginning bifolium Bonn cadence chromatic close coda composed contains contrast countersubject descending fourth Diabelli Variations Diabelli's theme Diabelli's waltz diminished-seventh chord dissonant dominant Don Giovanni early sketches Engelmann Sketchbook entries evidence finished four bars Fughetta Fugue genesis Goldberg Variations harmonic idea Landsberg linear Ludwig van Beethoven maestoso manuscript march variation material melodic metre Minuet Missa Solemnis modulation Montauban Montauban Fragment movement musical Ninth Symphony Nottebohm octave opening Paris 58B Paris 77A Paris 96 parody passage phrase Piano Sonata piece poco progression Quartet relationship repetition rhythm rhythmic Robert Winter second half sense sequences shown in Ex sketches and drafts sketches in Wittgenstein slow variation sonority structure subdominant syncopated tempo texture thematic tonal tonic transcription transition treble triad vivace West Berlin Wittgenstein Sketchbook fol