Editing Diabelli Variations (section)

===Variation 29: ''Adagio ma non troppo''===

The first of three slow variations, this appears to be the beginning of the end: "The composer transports us into a new, more earnest, even melancholy realm of feeling. It might be regarded as beginning the Adagio of this Variation-sonata; from this Adagio we are carried back, by the grand double fugue, Variation 32, into the original bright sphere of the [[tone poem|tone-poem]], the general character of which receives its seal in the graceful Minuetto-Finale". (von Bülow) Brendel's title for this variation is ''Stifled sighs (Konrad Wolff)''.

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