Anna Rubin
for solo piano
ca. 2'00"
This short piece is part of the ‘Diabelli Recomposed’ project conceived by Claudia Bigos. Fifty worldwide composers participated in composing variations on the famous tune made famous by Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Furore Verlag (Germany) has published this piece in “Diabelli Recomposed,” Edition 10413.
Ludwig Dreams of Igor is a whimsical smash-up of well-known fragments of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps with the opening tune of the Diabelli Variations. The famous bi-tonalism of Le Sacre pervades the variation while melodic fragments of each composer are intertwined. The shared love of bombast cements their true brotherhood.
The piece premiered as part of a grand performance of all fifty pieces at the Hanover Music Academy in 2023.
Click here to watch a performance (YouTube; go to 2:12:23).