"Für Elise" - The real LOVE story. Did you know..?

Please do not comment about the tempo.I play each (moment in) time differently and I am not going to record another video just to please someone out there .....

wildchild555555 WROTE: Ever since I heard Fur Elise as a child - in movies and such i always felt it was played too slow in tempo... I loved the way you have awoken the emotion, that is usually lost when it is played at it's more contemporaneous pace... Extremely envious of your talents, which i imagine are unrecognizable to others. Take care - FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTOOD WHY THIS TEMPO!



This is the real LOVE story about "Für Elise" (Voor Elise, For Elise, Za Elizu....etc)
Did you know that the original title was Fur Therese?
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Fur Elise" (Für Elise) is probably Beethoven`s most popular piano work, which he dedicated to one of his female piano pupils in 1810.
Beethoven had made the acquaintance of the Malfatti family in Vienna in 1809 through Count Gleichenstein. He, Beethoven, was not only impressed by the culture, refinement and musical taste of the parents, but also by the beauty and intellect of the daughters Therese and Anna. Therese was a very good piano player and became Beethoven`s pupil; she was also the niece of Beethoven`s physician Dr. Malfatti. All this made the Malfatti house very attractive for Beethoven and also resulted in an unusually warm relationship between Beethoven and the Malfattis and a less severe regard for conventional forms. Though Beethoven almost certainly fell in love with Therese, the social difference was too great and nothing is known of a particular intimacy.
Experts are very sure that "Fur Elise" (Für Elise) is dedicated to Beethovens beloved Therese Malfatti. L. Nohl, Beethoven`s biographer possessed the original script and published the work in 1867, but he misinterpreted Beethoven`s handwriting -- instead of Therese he read "For Elise on 27. April, a dedication from L. v. Bthvn."
This kind of work for solo piano is often referred to as a bagatelle because it is quite short. It is in a-minor and is arranged like a short rondo. The initial melody of „Fur Elise" (Für Elise) is repeated several times and is interrupted by contradictory episodes in neighbouring keys
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This Bagatelle was written in about 1810.

One of the versions of the story goes like this:

Beethoven wrote it as a birthday present for one of his pupils, Miss Therese Malfatti. He was probably broke or didn't realize what women would really enjoy!? He was in love with her and even asked her to marry him. Unfortunately, nothing came out of this, as Therese's father (Dr.Giovanni Malfatti, who treated Beethoven in his final illness) objected to the union and she married Baron Von Drosdick in 1816.

Because of his very scruffy handwriting ( he probably wrote in old German) his publisher just spelled it as Fur Elise. In a letter of May 1810 to Therese, Beethoven refers to the Bagatelle - "In this letter, beloved Therese, you are receiving what I promised you."

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[HurtzSoGood2]

How does anyone get Elise out of Therese no matter how bad the writing? Where are your sources for this information? And the tempo is garbage. You don't take a masterpiece and change the tempo because you are "young at heart." Thanks for trying see ya next time.

[Pianostudio]

@HurtzSoGood2 Thanks for taking time and commenting my video.

- Read Wikipedia or Music History!

- Tempo is just as it should be.

- Playing slow is new YouTube-style of amateurs. I play Beethoven's tempo in his own classical style. Check the great pianists like W. Giseking - Beethoven specialist

[lexsis1901]

@Pianostudio

well the thing about music history is right but sometimes wikipedia is a source you cant't trust but can i give you a small tip for the next time you play this? at 3:00 you should play 3 2 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 with you left hand (if you know what im talking about of course;)

i think the rest of the song was just played perfectly

well and about the tempo i love it but

[Pianostudio]

@lexsis1901 Ik denk niet dat de vingerzetting je noemt goed is - simpel het zijn dus geen 2 x 3 maar 3 x 2 noten als je de rechte hand volgt .... en over het verhaal - die heb ik nog op school geleerd in muziek geschiedenis les, en dus waarschijnlijk waar sinds het nu 40 jaar na dato nog in alle tale te lezen is. Dank voor de commentaar :)

[infidel94]

anybody else see her face reflecting from the piano?

[rodriplada]

He/She is right! so u bunch of trolls trashing his/her tempo or resource of information, go get a life

[tyecesilly6]

Actuallyher name was Elise

[darkvampiregirl18]

Cool

[rossyfeliz1]

i like 

[Delalumiere666]

@HurtzSoGood2 actually most interpretations, spetially Beethoven´s aren´t nterpreted correctly, my friend and I study his work and we also edit the interpretations sometimes in order to make them on the right tempo, and the real strenght that Ludwig Van was expressing in them. Cheers

[luludablogger]

I love how peoples fingers flow magically on the key board i would love to learn how to play these wonderful songs Beethoven played.

[bivstvomaria]

Wery good melody ,thank !



[Tinyoak2]

@ipawnallofu *sigh* there hjad to be at least 1 who was going to butcher the man's name in order to pull a beevis and butthead stunt, giggle and say that one word.

[Jimbo4151]

actually, no one knows exactly who he wrote the piece for. he died before it was published. we can only speculate who he wrote it for. one theory is that he wrote it for a student of his whom he wanted to marry, another is that he wrote it for a singer, another says he wrote it for one of his friends, all we know for sure is that he wrote it for somebody and that it is an excellent piece.