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Beethoven, Ludwig van: Bagatelle in a minor WoO 59 (Für Elise)

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Setting: Piano
Length: 12 pages
Weight: 0.071 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1347
Other reference: HN 1347
ISMN: 9790201813479
There are probably very few piano students who have not tried their hand at this piece, it is undeniably one of the most popular classical piano pieces today. And yet unanswered questions still remain. They not only concern details in the musicaltext but also its famous nickname: Is ''Elise'', the reading in the dedication in the autograph, even actually correct? Or should it read ''Therese''? And whom might Beethoven have actually meant? The most recent findings with regard to these questionsar
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