Public-domain song
Für Elise
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 3/8
- Origin
- The theme of the Bagatelle in A minor, first published 1867.
Public domain: by Ludwig van Beethoven, who died in 1827; first published in 1867.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 5 bars, 11 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 60
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Range
- A4 to E5
- Note values
- eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 13 bars, 53 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 70
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Range
- C4 to F5
- Note values
- dotted eighth notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.