Piano Street - piano sheet music
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
July 05, 2008, 01:40:21 PM

Home Help Search Piano Chat
There are currently 3 users in the Piano Street chat rooms! Welcome in!
Piano Forum  |  Piano Board  |  Repertoire  |  Topic: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Fur Elise = Fur Therese  (Read 754 times)
presto agitato
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 619


Fur Elise = Fur Therese
« on: October 20, 2006, 07:31:46 PM »

Did you know that the orginal title of this ultra-famous piano work is "Fur Therese". The editor made a big mistake LOL.

Beethoven also dedicated one of his piano sonatas to Countess Therese von Brunsvik
Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major Op 78
Logged

The masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the cocomposer what he ought to have composed.

--Alfred Brendel--

piano sheet music of Sonata 24

piano sheet music of Für Elise
Waldszenen
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 1069


Re: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2006, 05:43:10 AM »

Good you noticed Smiley

It was probably why Therese rejected Beethoven's futile marriage proposal. Sad
Logged

Fortune favours the musical.
faulty_damper
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 1447


Re: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2006, 09:19:46 AM »

It looked like "Elise" with his handwritting.
Logged
ksnmohan
PS Silver Member
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 120


Re: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2006, 03:56:22 PM »

It was not quite  the Editor. The discoverer of this piece, Her Ludwig Nohl, "mistranscribed" the title when he gave the work for publishing in 1865. Beethoven's autographed title had been obviously lost.

Quoting from Wikipedia

"In some parts of Taiwan, Iran and most probably in other countries, the tune is played by garbage trucks to notify people to bring their trash out to be picked up.

In Brazil and Turkey the tune is played on trucks that sell gas cylinders to notify people that the truck is nearby"

Music for the ears indeed for today's Thereses and Elises living in these countries!
Logged
kempff1234
PS Silver Member
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 101


Re: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2006, 04:04:28 PM »

It was not quite  the Editor. The discoverer of this piece, Her Ludwig Nohl, "mistranscribed" the title when he gave the work for publishing in 1865. Beethoven's autographed title had been obviously lost.

Quoting from Wikipedia

"In some parts of Taiwan, Iran and most probably in other countries, the tune is played by garbage trucks to notify people to bring their trash out to be picked up.

In Brazil and Turkey the tune is played on trucks that sell gas cylinders to notify people that the truck is nearby"

Music for the ears indeed for today's Thereses and Elises living in these countries!

As an Iranian, I am ashamed of this...
Logged
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
Piano Forum  |  Piano Board  |  Repertoire  |  Topic: Fur Elise = Fur Therese
Jump to:  



Most popular classical piano composers:
Piano Street Sheet Music Library, complete list:
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Piano Forum | Powered by SMF 1.0.9.
© 2001-2005, Lewis Media. All Rights Reserved.
Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
o
Page created in 0.074 seconds with 26 queries.