#carl czerny

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.

…..

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.