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My favorite musical composition story is Beethoven's Fur Elise. He started writing the song for his student, whom he was in love with. She wasn't very good, so
by winrid 4y ago
My favorite musical composition story is Beethoven's Fur Elise. He started writing the song for his student, whom he was in love with. She wasn't very good, so the song was easy.
Then he found out she got engaged, and he made the rest of the song super difficult so she could never play it.
You can listen to the song and hear when his heart breaks: https://youtu.be/CQIDLhBJ2y4 https://youtu.be/CQIDLhBJ2y4
- gattilorenz 4y agoI'm not sure there's enough evidence for this theory, but it does sound amusing
- winrid 4y agoThis may be true. I've heard it enough times that I forget to question it. But it's fun. :)
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- ternaryoperator 4y ago> Then he found out she got engaged, and he made the rest of the song super difficult so she could never play it. It is very unlikely that this story is anything more than a fanciful tale: The dedicatee of the piece is unknown; the work was found in papers long after Beethoven's death and was unknown before that. So, the prospect of there being someone who was told the story and wrote it down, even though it's recorded nowhere is close to nil. See the Wikipedia article for more details.
- codeflo 4y agoSpeculation is fun, if you’re aware that you’re not doing science. Another fun theory I’ve read is that the piece was called “Für X” for different values of X at different times. According to this theory, Beethoven intentionally didn’t publish it so that he could continue to use the same piece to impress different women, “Look what I wrote for you”. Efficient.
- lupire 4y agoThe Beautiful South, Song For Whoever: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q_gAM1BXQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q_gAM1BXQ Bo Burnham, Repeat Stuff: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9c0UeYhFc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9c0UeYhFc