How many version of Fur Elise piano ?

Question

I have been searching this sheet for piano. I dont know why there are a lot of version. Would you recommend me the original one and easy note for basic student with the website please!
Thank you very much!

Answer 1

There is ONLY ONE VERSION. And it's not for a beginner. the other ones are NOT part of the standard repertoire. i hate to see such masterpieces 'simplified' just for people to be able to play them earlier.

PLEASE, wait and later on play the original version itself. Beethoven wrote ONE Fur Elise. there couldn't possibly be more than one version.

Answer 2

Fur Elise Full Version

Answer 3

I actually like Carmina Burana by Orff...it is totally overplayed and like the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, is not given any credit for it's other valuable movements (and there is rarely mention of Orff's other works)....but still the piece in its entirety is a great choral work and interesting for it's orchestration and use of percussion. Btw....love the 31.5 comment. HA!

For people that still love Fur Elise...that's ok...everyone has to start somewhere in classical music...and classical music can be daunting to those that don't know a lot about it. But know this....for every one piece that you know and love, there could be 50 pieces that are infinitely more amazing and are still waiting to be heard. With Classical music (as opposed to pop) it is an adventure. You have to seek out the music that you like....it is not thrown in your face and played ad nauseum until you know it from memory.

Answer 4

First of all there is only one version of Fur Elise. Now there are many arragements of Fur Elise. However, if you're a basic student I wouldn't recomend it for you. (Mabye just the beginning anyway) Good luck!

Answer 5

I agree with al. I'm close to suicide myself from the small-mindedness of people who just seem to know and ask questions about:
Für Elise
Moonlight Sonata (or, more specifically, just the first movement, ignoring the other 31.5 sonatas!)
Pachelbel Canon (I'm very close to ending it now!)
O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana

What about the other thousands of beautiful pieces??

Yes, there's only ONE Für Elise - it's a Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59 and was written around 1810. Why would he write more then one version?

And don't roll your eyes, muse - we're just a bit bored and fed up reading the same things over and over and over again...

Answer 6

*rolls eyes at the first post*

I played a simplified version of it back when I first started piano, when I was about 9. Try looking for the Alfred's Basic Piano Library books; I believe my version of it came from an Alfred book.

Or, there's this:

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=340285358511739755&target=smp_detail.html%26sku%3DAP.6707FP2X&s=pages-http%253A//search.yahoo.com/search%253B_ylt%253DA0geu7W5JilHsI4ADNVXNyoA%253Fp%253Dsheet%252Bmusic%25252C%252Beasy%252BFur%252BElise%2526y%253DSearch%2526fr%253Dmy-vert-web-top&e=/sheetmusic/detail/AP.6707FP2X.html&t=&k=&r=wwws-err5

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/downloads/Beethoven/Eliza.html

Edit: I rolled my eyes at the first poster not because he was tired of hearing the same questions about the same composers/pieces all the time (god knows I'm tired of that, as well). I rolled my eyes when he said that the person who asked the question shouldn't dare to play a simplified version since they're learning to play piano. It's a very silly thing to say to someone who is honestly just trying to learn an artform. I highly doubt any musician who posts on Y!A was born with the natural ability to play the original, full versions of any of the pieces we love (or the ones we ridicule).

Answer 7

Blue Sea just asked an innocent question and all you do is bragging about your knowledge and skills. Shame on you guys.