In describing the ending, commentators are often driven to superlatives. Gerald Abraham calls it "one of the strangest passages Beethoven ever wrote". Kinderman describes the transition as "one of the most magical moments in the work":  Tovey's description of this dramatic moment is:  Technically, von Bülow admires in the closing four bars "the principle of modulation chiefly developed in the master's last creative period ... the successive step-wise progression of the several parts while employing enharmonic modulation as a bridge to connect even the remotest tonalities." Brendel's title for this variation is "To Handel". Tovey comments:  Brendel's title for this variation is "To Mozart; to Beethoven" explaining:  Solomon describes the closing bars as "the final image – of a tender, songful, profound nostalgia, a vantage point from which we can review the purposes of the entire journey."