Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Or was it for Therese? Beethoven gave the piece to a woman by that name. But he didn’t write it for her ...

Fire up any online piano lesson or sheet music platform and one of the most popular pieces will inevitably be Beethoven’s Für Elise, the ubiquitous bagatelle that the whole world wants to play. This ...

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 Barone Even if you don’t know “Für Elise,” you know “Für Elise.” A ...

How it started: ‘Für Elise’. How it’s going: ‘Esile Rüf’. Beethoven’s piano miniature ‘Für Elise’ is one of the most famous pieces ever written – every young pianist has had a bash at playing that ...

Like Giulietta Guicciardi, Therese Malfatti was a pupil of Beethoven's, and - as with Giulietta - he fell in love with her and decided to propose marriage to her. His plans came to naught, probably ...

(REUTERS) - Classical piano musician "Slava" Svjatoslav Presnyakov gave one of the most famous pieces in classical music, Beethoven's Fur Elise, a new 1920s twist. Presnyakov told Reuters he wanted to ...

(CBS) - Chances are that you're familiar with Beethoven's "Fur Elise" (or would immediately recognize it if you heard it). But have you ever heard it played on classical guitar? Okay, maybe, maybe not ...

I arrived in Taipei last Friday, for a one-month visit. It's a resplendent, occasionally maze-like city, filled with hidden tea houses and tangled-up skyscrapers, outpourings of people, alley cats and ...