#anton diabelli
Diabelli : Here is a tune. I want each and every one of you to compose a variation of it so I can drop a dope-ass collection.
Czerny and 49 other composers : With pleasure!
Schubert : Oh, such a delighful idea ! Here’s a waltz. Or do you prefer a fugue? I have a few Lieder here….
8 years-old Liszt : I’ll do it for candy.
Beethoven : No.
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Diabelli : Ludwig please.
Beethoven:No.
Diabelli : Allright. It’s money, isn’t it? I double your fee.
Beethoven : My noble art is not to be bought. I said no.
Diabelli : I see. Perhaps this tune is outside your comfort zone indeed. You feel -uncomfortable- with it. Perhaps this simple variation might be…. out of your mastery range?
Beethoven : …
Diabelli : …
Beethoven : …. Hold my wine.