The piano piece, Fr Elise, well-known to music students, was written by whom?
Für Elise Für Elise Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO59, Bia515) for solo piano, commonly known as "Für Elise" (, English: "For Elise"), is one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular compositions. It was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) forty years after his death, and may be termed either a "Bagatelle" or an . The identity of "Elise" is unknown; researchers have suggested Therese Malfatti, Elisabeth Röckel or Elise Barensfeld. The score was not published until 1867, 40 years after the composer's death in 1827. The discoverer of the piece, Ludwig Nohl, affirmed that the
The Well-Tuned Piano 20th century." In his book, "Four Musical Minimalists", Keith Potter states that "The Well-Tuned Piano" is significant, "in the contexts of musical minimalism, of musics working at the interface between composition and improvisation, and of twentieth-century music for solo piano." The tuning of the piano used in "The Well-Tuned Piano" is the most important aspect of the piece. When Young dates the piece as 1964-73-81-Present, the years 1973 and 1981 identify significant changes in the tuning. Young has always performed "The Well-Tuned Piano" on a Bösendorfer Imperial Piano, which is larger than a standard acoustic grand piano, spanning eight complete