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Social Media, Authenticity & How Not to Play Beethoven’s Für Elise

July 19th, 2012 in Articles by | 31 comments

Counting the beat correctly in one of the world’s most popular piano pieces, Für Elise by Beethoven, is certainly not a bagatelle… As every piano teacher knows, students often have problems playing the right number of beats in bars 14 and 37. If you are not a piano teacher, just watching around on YouTube easily confirms this fact. More surprisingly […]

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