It’s one of Beethoven’s best-known works – but the identity of its dedicatee has been the subject of years of confusion. Who actually was Elise? Beethoven’s Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor is rarely ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 It is overplayed all over pop culture. But the pianist Igor Levit says it is “one of the most beautiful pieces I know.” By Joshua ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Or was it for Therese? Beethoven gave the piece to a woman by that name. But he didn’t write it for her ...

It's one of the most famous pieces of piano music, but Beethoven's ‘Für Elise’ has a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect. Marcus is not just your average bank, and with them we're ...

Now a leading Beethoven expert has come to the conclusion that there never was an Elise — or at least not one that Beethoven knew. In a book due to be released in May, Why Beethoven, Norman Lebrecht ...

Für Elise has become one of the most widely recognizable classical pieces in the world. It has appeared in commercials, movies, and even garbage trucks in Taiwan. So how did it get so popular, and is ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama- When the lights went down Tuesday night, the Propst Von Braun Center Arena lit up and the volume went waaay up. The famed Trans-Siberian Orchestra took the stage with its rock ...