Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 (“33 Variations on a Waltz”)

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Beethoven wrote the 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120, commonly known as the “Diabelli Variations”, between 1819 and 1823. Martin Cooper writes, “The variety of treatment is almost without parallel, so that the work represents a book of advanced studies in Beethoven's manner of expression and his use of the keyboard.”