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  • Beethoven,
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• 20/01/2023

Therese

– or Für Elise’. Beethoven wrote ‘Für Elise’ for Therese but was too drunk to propose. It was found among her things when she died. No one knows why he scribbled on it Für Elise not ‘Für Therese’.

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