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 ...

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 ...

Written 212 years ago by Ludwig van Beethoven, ‘Für Elise’ gets a whole new makeover when you flip the piece upside down... Videos ranged from turning the piece from a 3/8 time signature to 4/4, to ...

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 ...

You wouldn’t think Beethoven’s most popular piano piece would work transcribed into castanet-tempting, flamenco guitar greatness. But, boy it really does. And the fiery flamenco finale is an ending ...

A piece loved by students and amateur pianists, watch Beethoven's "Für Elise" under the expert hands of Australian concert pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. You don’t have to be a classical musical snob to recognize this track—it ...

Beethoven’s love life has long fascinated music scholars primarily because so little is known about it despite some tantalising clues. In his new book, Why Beethoven, music critic Norman Lebrecht, ...

He's been compared to the Kardashians, his namesake is a large, loveable Saint Bernard with its own film franchise, and his music has been the soundtrack for every kind of character arc/action ...