Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) - Sonatine für das Pianoforte und Guitare (1834)

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Anton Diabelli! 🎉🥂 Composer: Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) Work: Sonatine für das Pianoforte und Guitare, (1834) Performers: Rita Maria Flеrеs (fortepiano); Mario Sicca (1930-2023, guitar) Painting: Franz Ludwig Catel (1778-1856) - Volksfest bei Pozzuoli (1823) HD image: Further info: Listen free: No available --- Anton (Antonio, Antoine) (Blasius) Diabelli [Diabelly] (Mattsee, nr Salzburg, 5 September 1781 - Vienna, 7 April 1858) Austrian publisher and composer. He was a choirboy in the monastery at Michaelbeurn, and at Salzburg Cathedral. He studied for the priesthood at the Munich Latin School, but continued his musical work, submitting his compositions to Michael Haydn, who encouraged him. On the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries, Diabelli, who had already entered that at Raichenhaslach, embraced the career of a musician, went to Vienna (where Joseph Haydn received him kindly), taught piano and guitar for a living, and in 1818 became a partner of Cappi, the music publisher, assuming control of the firm (Diabelli & Co.) in 1824. He published much of Schubert’s music, but underpaid the composer, and complained that he wrote too much. In 1852 he sold his firm to CiA. Spina. A facile composer, he produced an opera, ’Adam in der Klemme’ (Vienna, 1809), masses, cantatas, chamber music, etc., which were consigned to oblivion; however, his sonatinas are still used for beginners and guitar players, and his pastoralmesse (1830) is regularly performed in Austria. His name was immortalized through Beethoven’s set of 33 variations () on a waltz theme by Diabelli.