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Anton Diabelli
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Anton Diabelli, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2313 / CC BY SA 3.0 • #1781_births • #1858_deaths • #19th-century_classical_composers • #19th-century_male_musicians • #Austrian_classical_composers • #Austrian_male_classical_composers • #Austrian_opera_composers • #Austrian_people_of_Italian_descent • #Austrian_Romantic_composers • #Composers_for_piano • Anton Diabelli, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber Anton （or Antonio） Diabelli （5 September 1781 – 8 April 1858） was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. • Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations. • Diabelli was born in Mattsee near Salzburg, then in the Archbishopric of Salzburg. • A musical child, he sang in the boys' choir at Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn. • By the age of 19 Diabelli had already composed several important compositions including six masses. • Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria. • He remained there until 1803, when Bavaria closed all its monasteries. • In 1803 Diabelli moved to Vienna and began teaching piano and guitar and found work as a proofreader for a music publisher. • During this period he learned the music publishing business while continuing to compose. • In 1809 he composed his comic opera, Adam in der Klemme. • In 1817 he started a music publishing business and in 1818 he formed a partnership with Pietro Cappi to create the music publishing firm of Cappi Diabelli. • Cappi Diabelli became well known by arranging popular pieces so they could be played by amateurs at home. • A master of promotion, Diabelli selected widely-accessible music such as famous opera tune arrangements, dance music and popular new comic theatre songs. • The firm soon established a reputation in more serious music circles by championing the works of Franz Schubert. • Diabelli recog...
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