Cavatina from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville

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Anton Diabelli owes his fame in large part to Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed a brilliant set of 33 variations based on his Waltz, opus 120. Diabelli was the owner of a very successful publishing house (Capi & Diabelli) that specialized in arranging and publishing works by popular composers of the day. This composition is one of the earliest examples of a capitalization on the demand for virtuoso works based on those popular composers.

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