I want to know if it was written for anyone special, or if there was a story behind the song, of if Beethoven just wrote it to write it.....
2007-11-28 04:24:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
"Für Elise" (German for "For Elise") is the popular name of the "Bagatelle in A minor", WoO 59, a piece of music for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, written approximately in 1810.
Beethoven scholars are not entirely certain who "Elise" was. The most reasonable theory is that Beethoven originally titled his work "Für Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), whom Beethoven intended to marry in 1810. However, she declined Beethoven's proposal. In 1816 Therese Malfatti, who was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Malfatti von Rohrenbach (1769-1829), married the Austrian nobleman and state official Wilhelm von Droßdik (1771-1859). When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the piece Ludwig Nohl mistranscribed the title as "Für Elise".
2007-11-28 04:31:03 · answer #1 · answered by happymommy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It has been said that Beethoven was always in love, but never with the same woman for longer than 6 months.
2007-11-29 02:05:51 · answer #2 · answered by suhwahaksaeng 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first answer is correct but I bit of advice ; NEVER, ever play it in public. Many people have heard it ten thousand times and are quite sick of it.
2007-11-28 12:09:17 · answer #3 · answered by brian777999 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have no idea but happymom should get the points because she did her research!
2007-11-28 04:32:44 · answer #4 · answered by ice38034 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋