Für Elise, if it had been written 200 years later… A pianist has imagined what Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ (Bagatelle No.25 in A minor) might sound like if it had been composed by Ludovico Einaudi. In a ...

Marian Rivera is a proud mom to her six-year-old daughter Zia as the actress gave a glimpse of the kid playing Beethoven’s classic piano piece “Fur Elise.” Zia sat by the piano and played a part of ...

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 ...

A colourised illustration (after an original Hammann engraving) depicts Ludwig van Beethoven circa 1870. IMAGE: GETTY IMAGES The identity of the muse for Beethoven’s Fur Elise has long puzzled experts ...

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 ...