fur elise question

[Bright Moments]

i heard a jazz version of fur elise on solo clarinet.

way cool!!

unfortunately no one could tell me who did it.

anybody out there have any idea?

i check'd AMG without success.

not goodman, not shaw.

i would really like to find this puppy!

thanks to all. B-)

[GregN]

I have read that it is not actually fur elise as we've have all been told and/or taught, rather, the latest consensus is that it is "For Elise". Beethoven's handwritting was just that bad, and he was writing it in English hence the misunderstanding.

As far as the tune in question goes, sounds quite intriguing. I know someone, locally, who is quite the clarinet buff and will toss that question his way.

Here it is again, it was written in English. ^

Edited April 11, 2005 by GregN

[BERIGAN]

My 2 guesses would have been Eddie Daniels , or Ken Peplowski, but the classical albums I checked of theirs didn't list it, but I might have overlooked it somehow.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Someone is slightly confused. Für means "For" in German. However, it's the "Elise" which is not what we've been taught. The piece was dedicated to Therese von Malfatte and apparently the Therese was misread as Elise.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ademu/Beethoven/#n21

Mike

[Don Brown]

It's probably not the recording you heard but you might find it interesting to know that the suite Ralph Burns wrote and arranged for Woody Herman's First and Second Herds - "Summer Sequence" - is based on Beethoven's "Fur Elise". The suite was recorded for Columbia in the 1940s and was most recently reissued by Mosaic on their Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman set. Three of the suite's four parts were recorded by the First Herd while part four, recorded later, is by the Second Herd. Part four has a snippet by Stan Getz which provided Burns with the idea for his later composition "Early Autumn".

[Jazzmoose]

So all this time my theory that Fur Elise was dedicated to a female werewolf was off the mark, eh?

[Bright Moments]

this one was used as part of the soundtrack for a short film about food that i saw at Copia in napa, california.

it confused me at first because i did not expect to hear a jazz arrangement of fur elise!

[mikeweil]

... The piece was dedicated to Therese von Malfatte ...

Don't want to be picky - but there's another typo here: Her name was Therese von Malfatti, Baroness Drosdick (Malfatti in Italian means "badly done" ...).

[SGUD missile]

this one was used as part of the soundtrack for a short film about food that i saw at Copia in napa, california.

Since you heard it in that context, it may have come from a music library since the song is PD, and someone just whomped out a jazz version of it.

[l p]

rahsaan roland kirk played 1-2 min of this quite often at the end of some tunes in concert, mostly at the end of 'pedal up'. it can be heard at the end of pedal up on the bright moments lp.

[Bright Moments]

i heard a jazz version of fur elise on solo clarinet.

way cool!!

unfortunately no one could tell me who did it.

anybody out there have any idea?

i check'd AMG without success.

not goodman, not shaw.

i would really like to find this puppy!

thanks to all. B-)

this mystery STILL unsolved!