Diabelli Variations (Part 2) Vaterländischer Künstlerverein

I. Theme (Anton Diabelli) II. Variation V4 by Carl Czerny [00:51] III. Variation V16 by Johann Nepomuk Hummel (S.161) [01:56] IV. Variation V21 by Conradin Kreutzer [03:22] V. Variation V24 by Franz Liszt (S.147) [04:21] VI. Variation V26 by Ignaz Moscheles [05:30] VII. Variation V28 by Franz Xaver Mozart [06:43] VIII. Variation V38 by Franz Schubert (D.718) [08:12] IX. Coda, by Carl Czerny [10:07] The composition for which Diabelli is now best known was actually written as part of an adventuring story. In 1819, as a promotional idea, he decided to try to publish a volume of variations on a "patriotic" waltz he had penned expressly for this purpose, with one variation by every important Austrian composer living at the time, as well as several significant non-Austrians. The combined contributions would be published in an anthology called Vaterländischer Künstlerverein (Patriotic Society Artists, or Patriotic Artists Association). Fifty-one composers responded with pieces, including Beethoven, Schubert, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Franz Xaver Mozart (son of the famous Wolfgang Amadeus),and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt (although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved). Czerny was also enlisted to write a coda. Beethoven, however, instead of providing just one variation, provided 33, and his formed Part I of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. They constitute what is generally regarded as one of the greatest of Beethoven's piano pieces and as the greatest set of variations of their time, and are generally known simply as the Diabelli Variations, Op. 120. The other 50 variations were published as Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein. Included in this video is the actual waltz theme written by Diabelli, and then the variations by Czerny, Hummel, Kreutzer, Liszt, Moscheles, F.X. Mozart, Schubert, and the concluding coda written by Czerny.