Für Elise

Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59

For Elise ingrained in a family's history

Submitted by CN. Story added around March 2009.


"Forelise" has quite a history in our family. Our youngest daughter, adopted from Korea, could play it by ear when she was about 7 years old. She never took many lessons, but continued to play the song. At her wedding, she chose it to be played on the piano while we parents lit the marriage candles. Three days ago, my oldest daughter gave birth to their second child, a daughter, and her name is "Aria Elise".


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