2007-09-24 19:39:07 · 12 answers · asked by Moore55 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
I would think that is true, you hear it all the time and it is one of the most beautiful piece of music ever written. Many people when they hear it don't realize they are listening to Fur Elise.
I disagree that something has to be difficult to be beautiful. I think it takes an extraordinary talent to write what some think of simple music and have it be so evokative and beautiful.
Who is the better artist, one that uses a charcoal pencil and does a simple drawing that is beautiful or one who has a whole set of oil paints and brushes and makes mediocre art?
I'd say the wonder of the piece lies in it's simplicity, my opinion anyway.
2007-09-24 19:44:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that anybody has done a survey as to whether it is the most well known *piece* (it's not a song). There are lots of pieces that we hear incessantly -- "The Entertainer", "Love Story", "Spinning Song", "Pachelbel Canon" and a host of others that I frankly don't care if I ever hear again -- including "Fur Elise".
It is amazing to me that with so much music at our disposal, we continually hear these pieces, and folks have such a narrow listening experience that they feel that this is "the most beautiful piece ever written".
At one point in my teaching career, I actually refused to teach it because I couldn't bear to hear it ONE MORE TIME. Nothing against good old Ludwig, but this thing that won't die is not anywhere near the best thing that he wrote -- it is a potboiler. I can wring no beauty out of it.
Back in the days when I actually played in front of people, I would finish a Chopin Mazurka or a Debussy Prelude, or something else that I had labored over to get just right, and people would applaud and then ask "Can you play 'Fur Elise'?
Kind of like the acrobat who does a medal-winning floor routine, and somebody asks, "Can you do a summersault"?
There is better music out there, people.
2007-09-25 02:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by glinzek 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no one most well known piano piece. There are many well known ones such as Fur Elise, Claire de Lune, Moonlight Sonata, Rondo Alla Turka (even though that may be too difficult),etc. By the way, you misspelled Beethoven. Also, Symphony No. 5 is not a piano piece, it is an orchestral piece.
2016-04-06 00:07:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever heard of the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven? Or Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin? Or Clair de Lune by Debussy? Fur Elise is popular because it is made into a cellphone ringtone, thats why so many people know of it. In fact, so many amazing pieces are being turned into ringtones and these ringtones suck! Most of them are those electronic midi files or whatever they are called!
Fur Elise is pretty, yes, but when I think about paino music or when I ask other people about it, Fur Elise doesn't really come up, and I'm surrounded by classical musicians, being one myself. So, I don't think it's the most well known.
2007-09-24 20:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by Mary R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is certainly one of the most played, but the most well known - I don't think so, I am willing to bet if most people heard it that would recognize it but wouldn't know what it is called. I would say the most "well known" piano piece (there are no piano songs, a song has lyrics) is, believe it or not, "Chopsticks."
I'd love to believe that it was Fur Elise or maybe Liebestraum or even the Moonlight Sonata, but no...
2007-09-25 02:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is one of the many popular piano songs.
2007-09-26 03:17:22 · answer #6 · answered by Your Guide 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most well known? My guess: "Heart and Soul". Even musical idiots can (and often do) play it. Instantly recognizeable even by the aforementioned musical idiots. Remember the floor keyboard scene in "Big"? Yeah. THAT one.
(edit) ... lots of people think this is called "Chopsticks" - it is similar, but the one people think of and dabblers play is "Heart and Soul".
2007-09-24 19:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by Katie W 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's certainly easy to say whether or not you've heard it before, but I doubt many people would be able to actually name it if they heard it.
2007-09-25 05:48:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because it's also popular to non classic music fananatics
2007-09-26 08:17:26 · answer #9 · answered by Rode|ette ۩ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah. its only a grade 3 piece, so simple to pay. those who think that it is the most popular, dont even understand music. how about pieces from tchaichosky, chopin...
2007-09-24 19:42:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋