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in reply to a message by Anneza
...that Für Elise was really called "Für Louise"? Apparently Beethoven didn't write very well, so "Für Louise" was read as "Für Elise". It was a mystery, since no one could find out who Elise was. Then, many years later, a Beethoven "scientist" read the original manuscript and saw that "Elise" really was "Louise", the name of a girl Beethoven had loved.
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
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Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the lights
~J.K. Rowling
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Good grief! I am amazed and delighted to know that - thanks, Caprice. I'd always believed that she was a young pupil for whom he wrote it as a practice piece ... presumably the real one would have been known as or pronounced as Louisa (Luise) in the German way, unless French names were fashionable at the time. These are deep waters!
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