Prepare the topping with lightly whipped cream, infused with 3 to 4 dashes of Mozart white chocolate liqueur and slowly pour it over a spoon for a perfect topping. No decoration. We're marking the historic end of an era. For years, our friend Michelle Philippe has been our show's "voice of history," but she's leaving public radio to pursue her writing and acting career. There are several theories, however, which I will lay out in order of most to least likely.
Beethoven had a doomed love affair with a woman named Therese Malfatti. We aren't quite sure exactly how they broke up, but we do know that he proposed, and she either said no right away, or strung him along for a while and then said no.
Either way, Therese then married someone else. Beethoven and Rockel were close friends until she married Beethoven's frenemy, Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The least likely scenario is that Beethoven wrote the piece for another woman nicknamed Elise - Juliane Katharine Elisabet Barensfeld , who used "Elise" as a variant first name. She was a musical child prodigy who was Therese Malfatti's neighbor and conceivably could have been her student.
This theory holds that Beethoven was willing to do anything for his one great love, Therese, including writing a quick piece of music for one of her favorites. To whom is a sad, longing love song dedicated?
Probably to the lost love of Beethoven's life, Therese. This is because musical compositions have a specific naming system that references type, key, and a numbering system. Let's unpack each of the components of this title separately. This is the piece of music's type other types include sonatas, etudes, symphonies, and so on. A bagatelle is a short, lighthearted, and generally frivolous piece of music.
Similar words have also been used to describe this piece. Sometimes the title uses the word "Albumblatt," which means "album leaf" - a short, pleasant, usually solo piano piece that friends could easily share by pasting into each other's musical albums. A Minor. Keys are divided into major and minor, depending on the intervals between the notes used in the scale.
Here, the minor key is a technical way to convey which notes should be played higher or lower than the corresponding natural notes. It also tells us about the musicality of the piece. In Western music, music in a minor key sounds sad , helping with the sense of longing and wistfulness that characterizes the melody.
WoO Usually, composers number their published pieces of music, using the Latin term "opus" which means "work" and whatever number followed in sequence from the last piece of the same type. Because of this, much of his work has been assigned numbers by later publishers, using the German term "werk ohne opuszahl" meaning "work without opus number" and abbreviated as WoO and a number in sequence. Now that we've explored the history and romance behind the work, let's check out what's under the hood.
As we already saw from its title, this piece is in the key of A minor. In other words, its first section main theme A is repeated between its other sections themes B and C. The first section is the famous melody that everyone knows, with the right hand playing the melody itself and with the left hand playing arpeggios chords played note by note instead of all at once. The other sections are more challenging, incorporating the keys E major, C major, G major, and F major.
The repeated central theme's A minor key builds a melancholy, longing mood. Note that capital-R Romanticism has nothing to do with small-r romance. Instead, Romantic music was characterized by ideas of revolting against Industrial Revolution and the perceived triumph of hyper-rationalism. Romanticism instead embraced a preoccupation with nature, an imagined glorious past, and beautifully terrifying and unknowable spiritual and emotional experiences.
As he got progressively more deaf, his pieces got higher and higher. It seems almost strange then that, at the time it was composed, the piece was relatively incidental. See more Beethoven News. Discover Music. See more Beethoven Music. Beethoven, who eventually went completely deaf, could still hear some sounds and voices at this time. Hoffman together! Before she became Mrs. After the third lesson, they decided to date instead. Want to learn how to play this beautiful work yourself?
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