I am about to put the lid down on the piano keyboard in my 6th-grade music class when a particularly animated student runs up to me and says excitedly, “Teacher, I can play ‘Für Elise’!” I encourage ...

On April 27, 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven finished a piano bagatelle that he never intended for the public to hear. He scribbled a dedication on the top of the page and tucked it away. The world didn't ...

Für Elise, if it had been written 200 years later… A pianist has imagined what Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ (Bagatelle No.25 in A minor) might sound like if it had been composed by Ludovico Einaudi. In a ...

The identity of the muse for Für Elise has long puzzled experts. A new book suggests it was named by someone else, after the composer’s death It is one of classical music’s most famous compositions ...

Those tinkering initial piano notes, as the fingers dart between E and D# are ingrained into every person’s mind. So easy to play, yet so hard to master the following flow up the keyboard that expands ...

Für Elise has become one of the most widely recognizable classical pieces in the world. It has appeared in commercials, movies, and even garbage trucks in Taiwan. So how did it get so popular, and is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 It is overplayed all over pop culture. But the pianist Igor Levit says it is “one of the most beautiful pieces I know.” By Joshua ...