How to play FUR ELISE - Ludwig van Beethoven [Main Section] Piano Tutorial

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A Piano tutorial on how to play the main section from Fur Elise by Ludwig van Beethoven (Bagatelle in A minor Wo0 59).

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Some general information about Fur Elise:

Fur Elise was not published during Beethoven's lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) forty years after his death, and may be termed either a Bagatelle or an Albumblatt. The identity of "Elise" is unknown; researchers have suggested Therese Malfatti, Elisabeth Röckel or Elise Barensfeld.

The piece is basically in rondo form, ABACA. It is in A minor and in 3/8 time. It begins with an A minor theme marked 'Poco moto' (in some motion), with the left hand playing arpeggios alternating between A minor and E major. The same motifs follow around C major and G major, before returning to the original theme.

It has been suggested that the letters that spell 'Elise' can be decoded as the first three notes of the piece. Because an E♭ is called an Es in German and is pronounced as "S", that makes E–(L)–(I)–S–E: E–(L)–(I)–E♭–E, which by enharmonic equivalents sounds the same as the written notes E–(L)–(I)–D♯–E.

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