Editing Diabelli Variations (section)

===Variation 24: ''Fughetta'' (''Andante'')===
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Lyrical and beautiful, greatly contrasting with the preceding variation, an allusion to Bach. Tovey describes this variation as "a wonderfully delicate and mysterious web of sounds on a [[Figure (music)|figure]] suggested partly by the treble and partly by the bass of the first four bars of the theme. Acting on a hint given him by the second half of Diabelli's theme, Beethoven [[Melodic inversion|inverts]] this in the second half of the fughetta."<ref name="Tovey, Donald Francis p. 131">{{Harvnb|Tovey|1944|p=131}}</ref> Kinderman compares it with the concluding fugue in the last movement of the [[Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)|Sonata in A{{music|flat}}, Op. 110]] and to the mood of "certain quiet devotional passages in the [[Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)|''Missa Solemnis'']]", both of which were composed in this same period.<ref>{{Harvnb|Kinderman|1987|p=106}}</ref> Brendel's title for this variation is ''Pure Spirit''.

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