You've heard Beethoven's instantly recognizable "Fur Elise" somewhere, if only in a ring tone or a movie. As the New York Times put it in one appreciation, "Even if you don't know 'Fur Elise,' you ...

On April 27, 1810, Ludwig van Beethoven finished a piano bagatelle that he never intended for the public to hear. He scribbled a dedication on the top of the page and tucked it away. The world didn't ...

Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony completely deaf. He never heard a single note of it performed, yet it remains one of the most emotionally overwhelming pieces of music ever written. That ...

Für Elise has become one of the most widely recognizable classical pieces in the world. It has appeared in commercials, movies, and even garbage trucks in Taiwan. So how did it get so popular, and is ...

I am about to put the lid down on the piano keyboard in my 6th-grade music class when a particularly animated student runs up to me and says excitedly, “Teacher, I can play ‘Für Elise’!” I encourage ...

“Für Elise” may be one of Beethoven’s best-known works, but it’s also one of his most mysterious. The identity of "Elise" has eluded historians and scholars for decades. The bagatelle wasn’t ...

Beethoven's "Für Elise" is one of the most famous pieces of piano music in the world, and now it is also the title of a Blondshell song, though without the diacritic. The new single is the latest ...