Vaterländische Künstlerverein

VATERLÄNDISCHE KÜNSTLERVEREIN (Society of Artists of the Fatherland). A name which has become famous through Beethoven's op. 120. ‘The Fatherland’ here means Austria. Schindler (Life of Beethoven, ii. 34) says that in the winter of 1822-3, the publishing firm of Diabelli & Co. in Vienna formed a plan for issuing a collective set of variations for the pianoforte. No fewer than 51 composers, among whom were the first Viennese masters of the time,editorialNote 2