Stories about People's Für Elise Experiences

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We would really like to know your story. How was it the first time you heard this piece? Where? Did someone teach it to you? Has the piece touched or inspired you? Please send your story to stories@forelise.com along with a few words about yourself, and perhaps we will post your story right here on the site for everyone to read. We would also like to hear from teachers who instruct this piece. Hopefully we will compile a nice collection.

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A 14 year old girl who wishes to remain anonymous sent us the following story.

I do not know the first time I heard "Fur Elise", but it feels like I`ve known it all my life. It`s one of the most beautiful things ever written. And here is my story;   I started taking piano lessons when I was eight years old. We had a piano, quite good, at home. I hated practising, and going to piano lessons. I seriously thinked about stopping to take piano lessons, because I hated it so, but something inside me knew that that would be wrong - so I didn`t stop, just went on playing. It went on for five years. Then one day I decided to go out and look for something new to play. I came home with a copy of the "Fur Elise". It was the longest thing I`d ever played, four pages, but it was a lot of the same stuff to, so I started playing it. I played it, note by note, I listened to it on one of dad`s classical cd`s to hear how it was to be played properly. I listened to it for at least three hours per day, it was so beautiful. It took me about a week to play all of the "Fur Elise" on piano, and learn it by heart. From then and on I LOVE playing the piano, and it`s just about one year since I hated it. "Fur Elise" has also changed me. I used to listen to all that normal teenagers listen to, Eminem, Black eyed peas, Gwen Stefani and so on, but now I`ve got symphonies by Beethoven, concertos by Mozart, and Chopin and Haydn on my i-pod!! Of course everyone thinks I strange, but who cares?

"Fur Elise" has changed me completely, and I wish I could thank Beethoven for it, but that is impossible, that`s the sad thing. But Beethoven is the world`s BEST composer ever lived and ever will live. Thank you!!!