About Fur Elise#
Beethoven, whose music bridges the Classical and Romantic eras, wrote this short piano bagatelle in A minor around 1810. Nobody published it in his lifetime. The manuscript surfaced only in 1867, decades after his death, when the scholar Ludwig Nohl printed it. Who “Elise” was has never been settled, and one common theory reads the dedication as a misspelling of Therese, a woman Beethoven knew.
On a 6-hole ocarina the circling E and D-sharp of the opening are gentle and sit well under the fingers. The trouble comes near the end, where the line reaches a high F that the instrument cannot finger the normal way. You get there by overblowing, which takes a steady, controlled breath. The main theme is well within reach of a beginner long before that phrase.
Fur Elise Ocarina Tab#
| E | D# | E | D# | E | B | D | C | A | ||
| C | E | A | B | E | G# | B | C | E | ||
| E | D# | E | D# | E | B | D | C | A | ||
| C | E | A | B | E | C | B | A | |||
| B | C | D | E | G# | F | E | D | |||
| F | E | D | C | E | D | C | B | |||
| E | D# | E | D# | E | B | D | C | A | ||
| C | E | A | B | E | G# | B | C | E | ||
| E | D# | E | D# | E | B | D | C | A | ||
| C | E | A | B | E | C | B | A |