Did You Know? Ludwig von Beethoven composed his piece Fur Elise (“For Elise,” pronoucned eh-LEE-se) on a manuscript dated Apr. 27, 1810. We don’t know who Elise was, though it is suspected that “Elise” is a penmanship “typo” for “Therese” and that she is Therese Malfatti, a friend and student of Beethoven to whom he proposed marriage, though she turned him down. A musical recording of Fur Elise can be heard on the page linked. By the way, I call square dances to this tune! LEARN MORE.
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Your German pronunciation is off. It should be pronounced, “Eh-LEE-sÉ™.”
Yeah, that makes sense. Fixed it. Thanks!
What an idiotic women; to turn down one the greatest composers of all time for rich idiot, oh well guess that confirms the theory “Girls don’t like boys, girls like cars and money
Or that some women have the good sense to turn down moody, self-absorbed, if brilliant, creative geniuses.
I speak from experience South Coast, who knows if Therese had accepted Ludwig’s proposal he might have mellowed
I, too, speak from experience, Jack. Sometimes they don’t. (But congratulations! 🙂 )
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