Works Inspired
- Dialogue avec 33 variations de L. van Beethoven sur une valse de Diabelli, a 1971 dialogue between writer Michel Butor and Beethoven.
- 33 Variations, a 2007 play by Moisés Kaufman, explores the story of the variations' composition.
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