Sonatina, Op.54
Sonatina · Op. 54
Anton Diabelli 1781–1858
Sonatina
Form
Op. 54
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Themes & character
Elementary sonatina·Beside Clementi and Kuhlau·Clear textures·Standard teaching
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 54
- Form
- Sonatina
About the piece
A sonatina from the body of teaching material that has kept Diabelli's own music in circulation, sitting alongside Clementi's Op. 36 and Kuhlau's sonatinas in the standard student progression.
He was a shrewd and generally decent publisher who supported Schubert when few others would, issuing a substantial quantity of his music, though the terms were not always to the composer's advantage.
The composer
Anton Diabelli
1781–1858
Anton Diabelli 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.
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