Fur Elise Malfatti - From L.V.Beethoven. by LBJ2
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Fur Elise Malfatti - From L.V.Beethoven.
Recently i told the story about the origin of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata.
It can be seen and read here:
Click here to see my former "Moonlight" sonata gallery post
This post, is the story about Beethoven's "Fur Elise". Also known as "Bagatelle WoO 59".
Click here to hear a beautiful version of "Fur Elise"
"Fur Elise" is without doubt, the most famous and beautiful piece, he ever wrote.
But why did he write it.. and for whom is it written and dedicated?
And why did i make the choice of posting this as humor?
"Fur Elise" is written in 1810. It's original name is "Fur Therese".
It is written 9 years later than "Moonlight" sonata.
And it is dedicated to Miss Therese Malfatti. She studied music and piano playing at Beethoven's.
She was 18, and Beethoven was 39 years old. And Beethoven fell in love with her.
It was quite normal at that time, and not illegal, at all. #;oD There were only very few lawyers back then.
This is where it turns into humor... but also where tragedy and comedy, unite.
Beethoven was invited to a party(soiree), at the Malfatti residence.
He had planned to play "Fur Elise" at the party, in front of the whole family, and all the important Malfatti business connections. And on the same occasion, ask Monsieur Malfatti, for Therese's hand, with the purpose of marriage.
There was punch, at most parties at that time. And Beethoven had a lot of it.#:o)
But Beethoven did not anticipate the powers.. of Signore Malfatti's exceedingly strong punch. #;oD
So Beethoven became drunk... #:o)... so drunk.. that he could not play "Fur Elise" on the piano, nor could he ask for the hand of Therese.
Punch can be tricky. You never really know how much alcohol is in it... untill you hit the ground #;oD
So..Beethoven screwed it up... no marriage with Therese Malfatti.
Therese asked Beethoven to write the title of the composition, on the top of the note sheet.
And Beethoven wrote "Fur Therese".. but when a drunk person write.. the handwriting is so crippled..That almost no one can read it...
Not even Beethoven's publisher could read it... so he interpreted it to be "Fur Elise".
This is the story.. about how and why.. "Fur Therese" also known as "Bagatelle WoO 59".. later known as "Fur Elise"..Was born.
Still.."Fur Elise" is very much alive, 200 years after it was written and dedicated by Beethoven, to Miss Therese Malfatti, with love. Young students in 2009, still learn to play the beautiful "Fur Elise" on the piano.
It is easy to play, and beautiful... that is why it survived for 200 years. And it will be here long after we are gone.
What i really like about the story of "Fur Elise" is... that it tells us how much Beethoven was alive.
He was more than a dried out old bugger, spending all of his life at the piano.
He was man, he loved life, women, punch, music #:o).. and everything life has to offer.
Comments (22)
emmecielle
Wonderful composition, Lars! interesting story... I don't know it... thanks for sharing! :)
JeffersonAF
Excellent my friend.
Minda
wow! glad i open my puter and see your post,Love the story and excellent scene lars and this is very interesting, Thanks for another awesome work..:)
lyron
Excellent scene. Fantastic work!!!
bakapo
what a wonderful scene... so full of great characters. thanks for the story behind the song, it's a fun story but too bad he didn't get the girl. I guess punch can have a kick. LOL!
BessieB
Such great characters Lars, excellent work.
stick
Awesome scene. Great job on the time period, I imagine this is before they had the punch.
magnus073
Lars I must say you are amazing my friend. You take time to share with us the behind the scenes stories of greats like Beethoven that few know. This one really had me smiling as it is one almost all can relate to and your right it does shine a new light and presents him in a more amiable way.
Faemike55
It is a very beautiful song and one that I hope to learn someday! thank you for breathing life into the song and its origins!
pops
What a great story Lars. Both funny and very interesting
Cimaira
Wonderful scene.
renecyberdoc
my first thinking with no disrespect is the old farth loved only young flesh-hehehehe. but then at the time the people died younger especially the women in childbed,so it was not unusual that a guy got married 2-3 times. and in fact to smell the light vanille flavor of young flesh hehehehe. wonderful hommage lars and it goes into my favs. no disrespect to ludwig van.
UteBigSmile
Wonderful work Lars, oh' yes this old genius Beethhoven, love the 5th's!!! Hug's Ute
Miska7
Very nice scene. Great characters, poses and lighting! Really nice work!
DennisReed
A classic look & scene Lars! Bravo!
Lunastar
What a wonderful story. Great image to accompany it too. Wonderful work Lars, I'm enjoy the history.
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent image!
NetWorthy
Another fabulous image and musical history lesson - bravo!
jocko500
wonderful cool
Zazou
Excellent !!
three_grrr
You have a wonderful sense of humor besides being a terrific artist. The story behind Fur Elise is very interesting. You are finding some wonderful history for us, history behind the music. I never thought of Beethoven as being an old fart, his music is much too filled with passion to be music written by an old fart, or a fuddy-duddy kind of person. I've long suspected he was a bit of wild man, LOL. A wonderful, wonderful render portraying the history behind the music!
brewgirlca
This is just soooo excellent ... love this bit of ribal history. The scene looks great, we can see him teetering on the edge of his seat with a dazed look about him. Oh what a screw up, one wonders if her father did not anticipate the proposal and really spiked the poor guy.