The actual story of the song for those curious is that Elise was a girl who Beethoven taught, and he fell in love with her. She wasn’t good at piano, so Beethoven wrote her a simple song that even she could play (Für Elise,) but after Beethoven found out she was getting married, he was heartbroken, so he made the rest of the song so hard she’d never be able to play it in its entirety 💀
And he named it Für Elise so no English speaking person would ever pronounce it correctly 😂 Edit bc I keep getting answers to this that take this way too seriously: I am, in fact, not trying to make a statement of what I believe to be fact, bc it obviously isn't. It's just a stupid joke. Thank you Another Edit bc people keep responding very kindly trying to teach me how to say it... thank you, but I am German, I know how to pronounce ü 😂 I just kept seeing a lot of people trying and failing to say it correctly, that's why I made this joke haha
@@ghosteaaa7949 yes obviously xD but the ü is really difficult to pronounce for people who aren't native German speakers and even her name Elise is usually not pronounced how it would be Just think it aligns well that it's a song that's difficult to play and difficult to pronounce for a lot of people xD Edit: it was pointed out that the wording could lead to misunderstanding. Obviously not every non native German speaker will have difficulties with the ü as it exists in other languages too. Basically what I wanted to say was that some native English speaking people (as I said in my first comment with an added exaggeration for comedic effect) would have difficulties. But those native English speakers could still be German speakers if they learned it, only not native German speakers, so what I should have written could have maybe been non-native-German native-English speakers or something ridiculously wordy like that. And since I didn't, and instead shortened it to just non native German speakers, I now realise I created some sort of weird binary of only English and German in the case of ü which is of course silly, bc ü appears in more languages. Sorry for this reckless comment xD
specifically the first minute or so of the piece, which really blows because as decent as this full piece is, it's made even less so by amateur pianists who can barely even play the first section
The crazy thing is, he actually wrote this song for her because he was in love with her. Then when she was with another man, he wrote the second half of the song to be so complex that she would never be able to play It on her piano.
@@ketchupman. And then theres me who never learned about Beethoven at All because she took bk (Art) lessons instead of music lessons. Thought bk would just be drawing and chilling, but it wasnt💔
Its always been one of my faves. It starts out sounding a bit anxious & eery & then turns in to beautiful calming vibes & back to intensity. Absolutely brilliant! Heartache makes for many a great song!
Someone once told me that Elise had either died, broken up with him(which isn’t likely considering the times), or had been caught cheating on him, I can’t remember which one it is, at some point when he was writing the song about her. That’s why it gets angsty at some point in the middle of Für Elise.
it was a simple song because elise sucked at piano and he made the song harder so she couldn't play the song in its entirety because she got married to another man.
@@brandonmanwell Thanks for the compliment. I love your content. You're a skilled piano player, and your vocal range is amazing. I listened to your Beethoven After His 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy, and it was perfect. I was hoping that next you could do Vivaldi's Winter, if you have time. Edit: More surprising? Kinda like my humongous EGO!
@@ElRyo21 Not sure if it is a response to LonelyAlchemist's pfp or just a joke addendum to original comment. It's generally considered a warning sign for a guy to have an anime pfp on twitter/x cause it's a red flag someone might be an incel.
Fun fact/ plot twist: she was actually born on January first so he was probably really hungover from drinking on new years (which would’ve been the day before).
@@fr0nc0I swear to god everything I take the time to write gives me a shitty mark, but whenever I desperately try to put something together in 10 minutes, I get an A
I'm not entirely sure you understand what that means. The joke is he said that because it's not true. That's literally the joke. And he said that this year, not when the song was actually being made
Beethoven dedicated this song to Elise when she was 13 years old💀 She’ll never know Her age too low Though you will say it’s below The legal age Which y’know Is immoral She’s barely undergo Puberty... But back then they forgo Basic morality~
@@abcxyz-dp4rlthey didn’t think it was immoral. If the life expectancy didn’t increase we’d also think it was moral. However, I agree that it is wrong, but you cannot hate a man who was not taught better
I put a 24 hour version of this song to get my daughter (currently 1yo) to sleep because nothing else works the same… Thank goodness for the creation of this song.
I don't mean to be the jerk here, but in this video it looks like he's not playing but just singing. If you follow his fingers they're not on the right keys at the right time
@@ccbird1128 For some reason, he's reversed the video image. What you are reading as bottom notes are actually the top and the top notes are the bottom
Crazy to think that he wrote it for Therese not Elise and that some water damage to the paper changed the name of the composition forever. There was no Elise in his life but there was a Therese he proposed to in the same year he wrote the song 1810. She was also in possession of the original music sheet.
no i have heard that he fell in love with Therese but she rejected him or so and than he started crying. Dont know if it is true bit thats what i have heard atleast
True. There was a woman named Therese Malfatti. She was a student of Beethoven to whom he supposedly proposed in 1810, she turned him down and married an Austrian noble. Some scholars think that his notoriously sloppy handwriting was misinterpreted and it was actually Fur Therese.
@@brandonmanwell My grandfather taught musical analysis and it always infuriated him that this one cr@ppy Beethoven piece had become so popular! Please do the longer version, this is absolutely brilliant!! (so is the Queen of the Night one!...) I've listened to them ten times already
The actual story of the song for those curious is that Elise was a girl who Beethoven taught, and he fell in love with her. She wasn’t good at piano, so Beethoven wrote her a simple song that even she could play (Für Elise,) but after Beethoven found out she was getting married, he was heartbroken, so he made the rest of the song so hard she’d never be able to play it in its entirety 💀
Dang, he took the petty route.
And he named it Für Elise so no English speaking person would ever pronounce it correctly 😂
Edit bc I keep getting answers to this that take this way too seriously: I am, in fact, not trying to make a statement of what I believe to be fact, bc it obviously isn't. It's just a stupid joke. Thank you
Another Edit bc people keep responding very kindly trying to teach me how to say it... thank you, but I am German, I know how to pronounce ü 😂 I just kept seeing a lot of people trying and failing to say it correctly, that's why I made this joke haha
@@audrayliar7480he spoke german so the name of the song was german
@@ghosteaaa7949 yes obviously xD but the ü is really difficult to pronounce for people who aren't native German speakers and even her name Elise is usually not pronounced how it would be
Just think it aligns well that it's a song that's difficult to play and difficult to pronounce for a lot of people xD
Edit: it was pointed out that the wording could lead to misunderstanding. Obviously not every non native German speaker will have difficulties with the ü as it exists in other languages too. Basically what I wanted to say was that some native English speaking people (as I said in my first comment with an added exaggeration for comedic effect) would have difficulties. But those native English speakers could still be German speakers if they learned it, only not native German speakers, so what I should have written could have maybe been non-native-German native-English speakers or something ridiculously wordy like that. And since I didn't, and instead shortened it to just non native German speakers, I now realise I created some sort of weird binary of only English and German in the case of ü which is of course silly, bc ü appears in more languages. Sorry for this reckless comment xD
Bro took petty to a whole new level
"Atleast I know no one will know this stupid song except Elise..."
*song becomes the most popular piano song in history afterwards*
LOL i love this song.
specifically the first minute or so of the piece, which really blows because as decent as this full piece is, it's made even less so by amateur pianists who can barely even play the first section
We grew up knowing this as the garbage truck song lol This is like the one classical piece every single person in my country knows.
@@toohottohandle0_0 Whatt garbage truck song what do you mean the garbage truck plays fur elise?
@@aress_97 Yep
“At least no one in the world will hear this song except Elise” is a very powerful line for some reason
It aged terribly, everyone knows it 😂❤
"then i would have WRITTEN HER A SYMPHONY" OKAYYYYYYY ATE
Fr tho
Real
Frfr
It’s giving phantom of the opera
real people don’t talk like this
the line "Maybe if she said yes to my proposal then I would've written her a symphony" would make the best lines in like a villain song
Real
Like an incel villain of sorts
That line perfectly fits the phantom’s vibe from Phantom of the Opera
Sounds like a hot villain people would make ais out of
He did write a symphony though………
The crazy thing is, he actually wrote this song for her because he was in love with her. Then when she was with another man, he wrote the second half of the song to be so complex that she would never be able to play It on her piano.
I thought it was for his landlord or something ?
@@ketchupman. ......😑
@@ketchupman.......😐
In the video you could literally know it's his lover that denied his proposal.
You didn't even need to research.
Guys that’s what my music teacher told me
@@ketchupman. And then theres me who never learned about Beethoven at All because she took bk (Art) lessons instead of music lessons. Thought bk would just be drawing and chilling, but it wasnt💔
That "SHIT" was personal
"She's not that smart,
She'll never know, I wrote this song in 15 minutes"
Bro just called Elise stupid in 50 languages 💀
Legend has it he wrote the second movement to be way harder because she rejected him, so he wrote a piece he knew she'd never be able to play.
1000 likes and no comment? Lemme fix that
Thats true
Actually it was "Für Therese" (Therese Malfatti), but his handwriting was so bad that the name was read wrong
@@AiceXIVliterally me
Didn’t Beethoven see her getting married or sum and did that. Not cuz of she rejected him
The 'I would have written her a symphony' part sounds really great
Thank you! 😄
Ooo, did you warble 'symphony'? Sounded like ya did. I think that's what made that line so great.
Agreed!
This is the comment I was looking for❤
It really is a good line I listened to that one line a few times
Its always been one of my faves. It starts out sounding a bit anxious & eery & then turns in to beautiful calming vibes & back to intensity. Absolutely brilliant! Heartache makes for many a great song!
At the school concert every year I hear this song around 20 times(played by 8 year olds) lol
@@yeeter_cannon4752💀
''shit, elises birthday is today''
got me dead on the floor💀💀💀
I thought I heard it wrong
He said SHIT Elise's birthday is today
WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT HIS VOICE??? I LOVE IT
THANK YOU! 😊
reall
voice acting is underappreciated nowadays 😭
a true broadway voice
I was looking for this comment, his voice is friggin legendary
Why not
My man got friendzoned so hard one of his most famous works if for the woman who rejected him
Sometimes the greatest pieces of art come from the deepest despair!
@@brandonmanwellFax
Frfr
@@brandonmanwellfacts
You should probably make sure your student isn’t married before writing a song for her, that’s hardly the friendzone 💀
Someone once told me that Elise had either died, broken up with him(which isn’t likely considering the times), or had been caught cheating on him, I can’t remember which one it is, at some point when he was writing the song about her. That’s why it gets angsty at some point in the middle of Für Elise.
She was getting married to another dude. He wrote it so hard so she wouldn't be able to play it
it was a simple song because elise sucked at piano and he made the song harder so she couldn't play the song in its entirety because she got married to another man.
They were never married, he was just inlove with her
Damn, the way you delivered the word "symphony" really made me feel something...
How Beethoven actually felt while writing this:
Haha
Underrated comment for real
@@rengoku7294 That's the whole point of the video this comment ain't contributing shit
That’s… the point of the video
@@rorique6234 POV:Beethoven writing “Für Elise” 🧍♀️ ???????????????
“At least I know that no one in the world will hear this song except Elise…”
*becomes one of the most well known songs in the world*
Oof
That’s part of the joke
Well that aged well
Off topic but your PFP is what I have as my Grandmas contact picture 😭😭😭😭
@@soupstar2088 LMFAOO I LOVE THAT SM
Imagine being so skilled you can play fur Elise without even looking at the piano. True skill
as a piano player it's honestly not that hard to do :") most people would be able to do that if they practised the one piece thoroughly
@@chaeminu that’s cool ngl!! I could never lol 😂
Loving this low-key Beethoven biopic. He was such a "Nice Guy" 😂💕
She'll never know
I wrote this song
An hour ago
Honestly played with that, but thought it was maybe more surprising not to rhyme... you should write lyrics!! 😄
@@brandonmanwell Thanks for the compliment. I love your content. You're a skilled piano player, and your vocal range is amazing. I listened to your Beethoven After His 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy, and it was perfect. I was hoping that next you could do Vivaldi's Winter, if you have time.
Edit: More surprising?
Kinda like my humongous
EGO!
@@benjaminripley-zu5cx thank you for the kind words Benjamin! I'll try my best to keep the funny songs coming :)
@@brandonmanwell ☺️
@@benjaminripley-zu5cx Vivaldi is on the list, though I was thinking Spring might be easier than Winter haha!
this is super funny but also some of the lines are really beautiful like the symphony line and the one about her being the only one who would hear it
So glad you enjoyed it! :)
This sounds good but if you consider “maybe if she had said yes to my proposal I’d do more” to be beautiful that’s a red flag 😂
Agree it's my favorite part
@@azsazazsatheyre talking about his singing, not the literal meaning behind the lyrics.
one of the greatest songs ever!
The "Yes!" is the best part.
That last bit "If she had just said yes to my proposal, I would have written her a symphony" honestly with his voice gave me goosebumps.
Right? I felt obligated to say yes in her name for a second, that's how comanding it felt😂 and beautiful. goosebumps here too
Kind of had phantom of the opera vibes
Me too!!! This is my favorit favorit Song!!!
I was like dhdhdjdi
“At least I know no one in the world would hear this song except Elise”
*becomes his most popular short*
And one of Ludwig’s, most popular pieces 😂😂😂
He’s gotta be turning in his grave right now
Short?
@@crazyjosheee3596 the joke went over your head
@@crazyjosheee3596 yk, a CZcams short? Like the CZcams version of TikToc?
"then i would've written her a SYMPHONY" goes WAY too hard. king you actually popped off 😭
“Shit Elise’s birthday is today “ got me so good 😂😂😂😂
“SHIT ELISE’S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY” got me cracking😭💀
The number of your likes made me make this face...💀💀💀
@@kresashadow was it 69 before💀💀
That’s my reaction when I forget to buy my mom a gift for Mother’s Day😅
SAME 😂🤣
SAME!!😂😂
"at least i know that no one in the world will hear this song, except elise"
Damn, Beethoven wouldn't have expected her to leak it on twitter
HSHAHSHAHAHHAAHAHAH OMG BEST COMMENT-
It caught me off guard.
@@LonelyAlchemistanime pfp ☠️
@@E..-_ I don't understand what's the problem about it.
@@E..-_ he’s not even from an anime, he’s from a game, even if he was what’s wrong with it?
@@ElRyo21 Not sure if it is a response to LonelyAlchemist's pfp or just a joke addendum to original comment.
It's generally considered a warning sign for a guy to have an anime pfp on twitter/x cause it's a red flag someone might be an incel.
okay but..HIS VOICE IS AMAZING
Fun fact/ plot twist: she was actually born on January first so he was probably really hungover from drinking on new years (which would’ve been the day before).
This guy single handedly made me adore classical music and add it to all my playlists.
🥰
Look at "Classico" from Tenacious D
“SH*T ELISE’S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY!” Caught me off guard😂😂
ikr
Me too 😂😂 and now I can't stop listening to it.
@@sagesufferswell I KNOW FUR ELISE ON THE PIANO AND GUESS WHAT!? I played in front of my younger brother and MY GUY fell in LOVE
that’s true
Beethoven dedicated this song to Elise when she was 13 years old💀
Amazing playing and singing!👍👍
I can take this seriously when my name is Elise 😂
Sameeeee
“Atleast I know that no one in the world will hear this song except Elise”
*song becomes world wide*
Underrated
Mate that’s the joke
@@prismix0870 mate the comment you replied to was a joke
becomes elevator music
It's a good song I like it1
Seriously, Für Elise is the musical equivalent to that one essay you speedrun 5 minutes before class starts
And it gets an A and the teacher uses it as an example of a job well done
It be like that
@@fr0nc0I swear to god everything I take the time to write gives me a shitty mark, but whenever I desperately try to put something together in 10 minutes, I get an A
ame pfp found 🗣️🗣️
@@midori307 🙏BLESS🙏
I’m glad he did because this is one of my favorite classical pieces
Bro this is my fav song by him
All of the symphonies are better then für elise
"at least I know no one will listen to this song except Elise"
Well that aged well.
Certainly.
Most certainly it aged like milk HSHHSHAHAH
I'm not entirely sure you understand what that means. The joke is he said that because it's not true. That's literally the joke. And he said that this year, not when the song was actually being made
@@balls_gaming I’m 100% sure the person knows what they commented. They made a joke aswell.
I hope so (I'm dumb)@@AJTheShawg
Can we talk about how beautiful is his singing?
I was thinking the same dude
Frfr
Omg yes especially when he said "A symphony" got me in love! 😍
Ironically my favorite Beethoven piece
This is really good
Okay, but this guy's voice is actually BEAUTIFUL!!!
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When you hear this song, but your name is actually Elise
Scared me at first then I read the caption
When you hear this song and your name is Elise and it was your birthday yesterday
Hi I am Elise (fr 💀)
SAME BRO LIKE FRRRRR
My friend sent this to me on disc bc my name is Elise 😭😭
This lyrics is so nice. And very true for melody ❤❤❤ . Man, it's so incredible ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
dang beethoven had it rough 💀💀
“SHIT! ELISE’S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY!!”
That got me rolling 💀💀
SAME LOL 💀
Same LOL😂😂
LMAO
IKR 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
and then every single piano student in the world had to learn this song after that and I literally spent a month learning it
Only a month?
a month is a lot it took me like 2 weeks
@@IcewayITZ😀😀oh ye I forget I suck at piano
@@christiansticklen1612 you could say i forgot to practice one or twice. or thrice. idk
@@IcewayITZ ... rghjw;fnl:mnjvkbsna
This is actually one of my favorite Beethoven songs.
Aaaaaaand... Now is one of my favourite songs
I love the syncopation on “symphony”
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@@EEEEEEEEhi E👋🏻
"she's not that smart
she'll never know
i wrote this song
upon the throne"
this is the one😂😂😂
Beethoven dedicated this song to Elise when she was 13 years old💀
She’ll never know
Her age too low
Though you will say it’s below
The legal age
Which y’know
Is immoral
She’s barely undergo
Puberty...
But back then they forgo
Basic morality~
@@abcxyz-dp4rlthey didn’t think it was immoral. If the life expectancy didn’t increase we’d also think it was moral. However, I agree that it is wrong, but you cannot hate a man who was not taught better
@@titan1umtitanNo, they knew better.
It wasn't normal back then, either.
@@zacheryeckard3051 except it was? That’s undeniable fact, my man
Bro lowkey thought known would listen to this but elise......
Rest is history......
I put a 24 hour version of this song to get my daughter (currently 1yo) to sleep because nothing else works the same… Thank goodness for the creation of this song.
Bro's piano and singing skills tho
I rarely talk about people's talents but his skills tho
This man deserves a grammy
finally someone got the correct award also i agree
I don't mean to be the jerk here, but in this video it looks like he's not playing but just singing. If you follow his fingers they're not on the right keys at the right time
@@ccbird1128 For some reason, he's reversed the video image. What you are reading as bottom notes are actually the top and the top notes are the bottom
tho tho tho
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE VOCALS?!
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This is my childhood song because my jiffy had a music thingy and it played für Elise so it’s one of my most known songs❤
Them: How many times have you watched this?
Me: Yes
I can’t get over how genuinely good this sounds 😭😭😭
Update: I’ve been literally listening to this on loop for 4 hours I can’t believe myself - girl with autism
@@komakeira1045same
Crazy to think that he wrote it for Therese not Elise and that some water damage to the paper changed the name of the composition forever. There was no Elise in his life but there was a Therese he proposed to in the same year he wrote the song 1810. She was also in possession of the original music sheet.
Elise was the pet name of Therese
no i have heard that he fell in love with Therese but she rejected him or so and than he started crying. Dont know if it is true bit thats what i have heard atleast
@@dominikszarek4527 The more common, and likely theory is it was incorrectly transcribed due to Beethoven's notiously bad handwriting
Umm, this song is by Tiesto
This is actually my favourite beethoven
Für Elise is actually one of my favorite pieces 😅
“At least I know no one will hear this song except Elise…”
…
Well ABOUT that-
Fun fact: it’s actually believed that she was in fact not named Elise
yeah, her name was Theresa, but when they were recovering the music they made it as Elise
True. There was a woman named Therese Malfatti. She was a student of Beethoven to whom he supposedly proposed in 1810, she turned him down and married an Austrian noble. Some scholars think that his notoriously sloppy handwriting was misinterpreted and it was actually Fur Therese.
shoutout to Berlioz for actually writing an entire symphony for some random girl he saw in a play once
Wait what!? Which one?
@@brandonmanwell Symphonie Fantastique
"💩 ELISE'S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY"
got me replaying it!
Fun fact:
Did you know,, für Elise" was actually called ,,für Theresa" and not Elise? It was accidentally mistaken for that while ,, restoring " it.
oh wow
Therese, but yeah.
I see you are a German based on your quotation marks. Moin Moin
@@jkdog3242gänsefüßle somwie es meine bayrische oma nennt
@@jkdog3242moin servus moin
There needs to be a broadway musical with this song about Beethoven
Give me a producer, I’ll write it! 😎
yeeeesssss!!!!
The fact that this is the very first piano song that I feel in love with a child
The start until the 15 minutes part would quite well fit Schroeder and Lucy from the Peanuts comics 😂
"atleast I know that no one will ever hear this song except elise"
Literally the whole world knows this song(it's a masterpiece tho)
yeah.... thats the joke...
i wouldn't go as far as to call it a masterpiece, but its middle sections (that sadly not many people know) are pretty nice
Literally the whole joke dude....
Hey guys, look, Sherlock here got the joke
Nah really?
Okay but can we talk about how beautiful it sounded w the words like the part when he “symphony” and “except elise”
When i was in 4th grade, during 1 hour reading alone time, my teacher would play für Elise and ive come to find it very calming
damn
if she accepted him
maybe hes 9th symphony which is almost the anthem of everything and some countries
would be dedicated to her lol
The way he sings “dear Elise” IM GONE 😞❤
It’s für Elise and für means for 😅
@@aytenibrahim2052 ???
@@aytenibrahim2052?
@@totally_not_rocketman9148You said "Dear Elise" but the song is called "Für Elise" and "für" is German for the English word "for"
@@Elysium_987 no I meant the lyric not the whole song 💀
That “ Shit Elises birthday is today” woke me up bc I was half asleep lol
This is actually my favorite classic. :)
the symphony part is actually 🔥🔥
guy has theatre talent holy crap his voice is amazing
Für Elise has always been my favorite classical piece; something about it is just so soothing and calming
It is my favorite piece too. Bonus Ican actually play the first half. LOL
I used to try to play it on my toy piano when i was 4-6 idk
Thats true
Got a good laugh of this at a very bad day, thank you ver, much😂
Haven't had so much fun since PDQ Bach which educated me about classical music. Comedy is a great hook! Thank you!
Are we not actually going to talk about how good this song is and with these vocals
I discovered this today. Honestly, this is one of the best things I've ever seen on CZcams. I played it like 30 times today :D
That's so nice! Thank you for the kind words- will try my best to keep the funny songs coming :)
🎵But then you’re wrong, we heard this song, and to us all, it’s a masterpiece.🎵
It's just incredible !
I really like the 'a symphony' part! you're a really good singer! :D
I am watching this video on repeat for 15 minutes now, bro your voice and playing are addictive
Nothing more brilliant than a genuinely musically talented man who is witty AND can sing, without being weird. Well done ✅
Elise:👁️💧👄💧👁️ I was insulted
So glad the CZcams algorithm didn’t fail me (for once) and introduced me to this gem of a channel
I love everything about this, the vocals, the piano, and the lyrics
That "SHIT" at the begining is sending me 😂
This amazing for me because your telling the story of him with a twist you are amazing for this and you’ve made my day thank you I’ve watched over 20x
Man, this actually amazing, impressive, the piano playing, the vocals, everything is on point
Ah yes, no one in the world will know this song except Elise 🥰🥰
I wonder how Beethoven would react if he knew how famous his song became.
@@brandonmanwell My grandfather taught musical analysis and it always infuriated him that this one cr@ppy Beethoven piece had become so popular! Please do the longer version, this is absolutely brilliant!! (so is the Queen of the Night one!...) I've listened to them ten times already
It’s actually a really good and comforting song even if this part of it is simple but definitely not crappy.
He's playing a poano while singing theatrically.. what a talent!