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The music was published as part of Nohl's Neue Briefe Beethovens (New letters by Beethoven) on pages 28 to 33, printed in Stuttgart by Johann Friedrich Cotta. [5] The version of "Für Elise" heard today is an earlier version that was transcribed by Ludwig Nohl.
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"Für Elise" (German: "For Elise") is the popular name of the "Bagatelle in A minor", WoO 59, a work for solo piano written by Ludwig van Beethoven in about 1810. The work is widely familiar and has been frequently adapted for use in works of popular culture .
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
It had the inscription "Für Elise am 27 April zur Erinnerung von L. v. Bthvn" [For Elise on 27 April (1810) as memento by L. v. Bthvn]. Indeed, Anna Milder-Hauptmann named her "Elise" in a letter to her. [1] During the days before Beethoven's death, she and her husband Hummel visited Beethoven several times, and cut and saved a lock of his hair.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Bagatelles, Op. 126 for solo piano were published late in his career, in the year 1825. [1] Beethoven dedicated them to his brother Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven (1776–1848), [ 2 ] and wrote to his publisher, Schott Music , that the Opus 126 Bagatelles "are probably the best I've written".
Piano Sonata No. 17: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; A lecture covering the compositional process on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 31, No. 2; A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 31, No. 2; Recording of this Sonata by Alberto Cobo; Recording of this Sonata by Serg van Gennip
The title of Beethoven's work, 'Drei Equale für vier Posaunen' is derived from the mediaeval Latin musical term ad equales or a voce (or a parte) equali.It designates two or more performers who sustain an equally difficult and important part ('equal voices') in either vocal or instrumental music, written for a particular restricted range of voice parts.