Cute young girl, innocently playing with small flower parasols to walk the forest paths, admiring the small flowers in the forest. The light after the rain made the girl smile on her face and disappear into the forest with brisk steps...
Between 1808 and 1810, beethoven, who was nearly 40 years old, taught a female student named Therese Marfati and became fond of her. Once, in a very happy mood, Beethoven wrote a small song "Bagatelle in A minor" and inscribed on the score "Dedicated to Thether, April 27, 1810, in Commemoration". Since then, the score has remained with Therese, and Beethoven did not keep his own manuscript, so he did not have the piece in his catalogue after his death.
It was not until the 1860s, when the German musician Noel wrote a biography of Beethoven, that a manuscript of the piece was discovered in Therese Marfati's relics. In 1867, when Knoll published the score for the piece in the city of Stuttgart in southwestern Germany, he was misunderstood due to sloppy handwriting and miswrote the original title "Dedicated to Therese" as "Dedicated to Elise". Since then, this piano work has been widely circulated around the world under the name "Dedicated to Elise".
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"Dedicated to Alice" is based on a simple and intimate theme that summarizes Therese's gentle, beautiful image, as if Beethoven had many kind words to Tell Thera. The second half alternates between the left and right hands to break down the chords, as if the two were talking intimately.
The music is written in a melody style, surrounded by basic themes, with two contrasting interludes, one of which is a clear, joyful tone with a Mozart style, presented in F major, and the other is based on the A-tone continuous tone of the low voice, with dark colors and strong rhythms, showing the childish annoyance. But both of these interludes are relatively short, and through a series of quick patterns they quickly lead back to the simple melody at the beginning, thus forming a musical image of a beautiful, simple and lively girlish character, and the music ends in a very graceful and gentle atmosphere.
People like to call "Dedicated to Alice" "insignificant music", but this insignificance condenses Beethoven's strong creative concept of reflecting his personal style and reflects his unique creative thinking. There are other unique ingenuities in the music, all of which show the consistent rigor of Beethoven's creation. So although "Dedicated to Alice" is only a skit that has only been played for more than 3 minutes, it can also be said to be a condensation of Beethoven's music creation, which also penetrates his spiritual expression.
This work is soft and moving, short and delicate, and simple in technique, easy to play, almost become a piano beginner must learn a piece of work, its high degree of artistry and expressiveness has also made it a favorite repertoire of many musicians.