Für Elise (WoO 59)

Ludwig van Beethoven · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Classical · Piano

The Bagatelle in A minor (1810), complete with all repeats: the A refrain, the bright F major episode, the dramatic D minor episode over an A pedal, the arpeggios and the final return of the theme. Fingering on the refrain and the B episode.

▶ Play this piece with the interactive score

How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• The E–D♯ motif uses fingers 5–4 with a loose wrist. The left-hand arpeggios hand over to the right hand without a gap: practise both hands in Wait mode. One pedal per arpeggio (bars 2, 3, 4…), lifted on the rests. Section B: dotted rhythms, count the sixteenths carefully.

More pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven

• Sonata Op. 49 No. 2: I. Allegro ma non troppo
• Sonata Op. 49 No. 2: II. Tempo di menuetto
• Minuet in E-flat major WoO 82
• Sonata Op. 49 No. 1: I. Andante
• Prelude in F minor WoO 55
• Sonata No. 25 (1st Movement: Presto alla tedesca) (Op. 79)
• Sonata Op. 79: II. Andante
• Sonata Op. 2 No. 1: III. Menuetto

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