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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Alongside the opening bars of his Fifth Symphony, "Fuer Elise" is one of Beethoven's best-known melodies, prompting scholars down the ...