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In From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli: Influence and
Independence, music scholar and noted pianist Alfred Kanwischer
gives readers an extended exploration in which each of Beethoven's
33 pieces that comprise the Diabelli Variations (Op. 120) is
caringly examined and assessed for its ingredients, actions,
personality, and influence on the whole. Counterpoint abounds, not
only in the fugal variations, which are closely parsed, but
throughout the Diabelli, revealing the noticeably Baroque character
of the technical compositional devices Beethoven employs.
Throughout his study, Kanwischer integrates comparisons with Bach's
immortal Goldberg Variations. Both sets stand alone as among the
greatest keyboard variations in the Western canon. During their
creation, both composers were nearly the same age, at the zenith of
their art, and in similarly felicitous frames of mind.Kanwischer
underscores twenty essential similarities, from the use of melody
and melodic outline and the comparability among variations in size,
parallel design, ebullient outlook, increasing contrasts, daring
virtuosic flights, Shakespearean blend of comic and tragic, and
their respective cumulative rises to spiritual transcendence. From
Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli takes readers on a journey
of discovery that is lively and stimulating. It considers not only
questions of influence but those of insight and understanding,
offering a work useful not only as a reference but as a guide to
performers, music instructors and devotees. This work also includes
70 visually annotated interpretive musical examples as aids to
understanding.
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