A 36-week-old baby hears ‘Für Elise’ in utero, and can’t help but slip on their dancing shoes... It’s been stipulated for a while that babies in the womb enjoy – nay are positively stimulated by – the ...

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 ...

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 ...