{"id":67740,"date":"2021-01-27T09:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=67740"},"modified":"2021-01-27T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:50:04","slug":"beethoven-sparks-of-joy-the-diabelli-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/01\/27\/beethoven-sparks-of-joy-the-diabelli-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven: Sparks of Joy \u2014 The Diabelli Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We continue the commemoration of Mozart\u2019s Birthday in the Beethoven Year with one of the last piano works Beethoven ever composed: the Diabelli Variations. The publisher Anton Diabelli wrote a simple waltz and circulated it to 13 composers, requesting a single variation from each. Beethoven initially scoffed at the idea, but then produced a mammoth set of 32 variations in which he took the trivial theme and subjected it to the most through-going transformations imaginable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Variation number 22 is easily recognized as the opening aria in Mozart\u2019s opera Don Giovanni in which the servant Leporello laments his lot in life(from a 1954 performance conducted by&nbsp; Wilelm Furtwangler \u2013 you can stop listening after about two minutes, or continue to watch the whole opera).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/XPYjqz7nToY?t=428\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is Sviatoslav Richter playing Diabelli Variation number 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Diabelli Variations, Op. 120: Variation 22: Allegro molto\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jeaIylLqxRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, listen to the entire set of Beethoven variations, played here by Alfred Brendel, and&nbsp; you will hear how Beethoven takes Mozart\u2019s theme and weaves it into the harmonic structure of Diabelli\u2019s waltz. Ingenious!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/l3qktiSzwMI\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue the commemoration of Mozart\u2019s Birthday in the Beethoven Year with one of the last piano works Beethoven ever composed: the Diabelli Variations. The publisher Anton Diabelli wrote a simple waltz and circulated it to 13 composers, requesting a single variation from each. Beethoven initially scoffed at the idea, but then produced a mammoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":63774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-67740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-beethoven-sparks-of-joy","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67752,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740\/revisions\/67752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}