Fun fact: This belongs to a genre called bagatelle. I don’t know why this genre is rarely mentioned in the classical music communities. It is just a small piece with simple melodies. It can be composed for many instruments, but piano is the most common one bagatelles are supposed to.
After he became obsessed with her he made half of this song, but he then found out that Elise was getting married to someone else and he made the song easy for her to play as she diddnt know pianno that well but when he found out he made the song so hard so that she couldn’t play it for all eternity💀
I mean… nowadays people would say that was wrong, but in the 1800s a 30 year old man marrying a teenager was completely normal. Reasons why women were married so young was because the age expectancy for people at the time was 20-30 years younger than now (they were dying in their 50s and 60s while our age expectancy is 70s to 90s), also as women we don’t have our entire lives to bare children. We are able to have children from when we get our period to 35-40. If you take a look at the life expectancy at the time, women didn’t have forever to have children. That’s why they were married off young.
Makes sense cause the piece is in A minor.
Basically he was the Drake of the Classical Period
I think the more concerning thing to people of that era would've been the fact that he wasn't an aristocrat rather than the age difference.
Here's the story that I know:
Fun fact: This belongs to a genre called bagatelle. I don’t know why this genre is rarely mentioned in the classical music communities. It is just a small piece with simple melodies. It can be composed for many instruments, but piano is the most common one bagatelles are supposed to.
After he became obsessed with her he made half of this song, but he then found out that Elise was getting married to someone else and he made the song easy for her to play as she diddnt know pianno that well but when he found out he made the song so hard so that she couldn’t play it for all eternity💀
The way you break character and start laughing 😭😭😭 girl sameee
Bro that’s what I be thinking when I found out she was 17 and he was 40 💀💀💀💀💀 beethoven needs to chillllll
Thank you for making this video!
Please post these type of videos on composers!! I would watch these all day!
The age wasn’t the problem back then it was probably the fact that she was already ‘promised’ to another.
Well, the life expectancy rate was much lower back then so you had to wed young.
I enjoyed your narrarating very much.
Yeah.... most people back then got married and had kids far earlier. Him liking a 17 year old was not wierd at all
"Your about 40 your deaf you dat ugly"
Wooooah, you had me in the first half.
This isn’t confirmed. It’s not actually known who “Elise” refers to, Therese Malffatti is just one of the prevailing theories
Nice
I mean… nowadays people would say that was wrong, but in the 1800s a 30 year old man marrying a teenager was completely normal. Reasons why women were married so young was because the age expectancy for people at the time was 20-30 years younger than now (they were dying in their 50s and 60s while our age expectancy is 70s to 90s), also as women we don’t have our entire lives to bare children. We are able to have children from when we get our period to 35-40. If you take a look at the life expectancy at the time, women didn’t have forever to have children. That’s why they were married off young.
You understand that age of consent is way lower than it is today in his time. The more you know. 🎉