As a result, no one’s quite sure who the Elise of the title was… and some musicologists even think the title might have been copied incorrectly and it was originally called ‘Für Therese’. The music has been used in Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle, Alien, Ace Ventura and There’s Something About Mary, as well as in countless TV programmes and adverts. It also featured prominently in the film Amadeus about the composer himself.
- Although there’s certainly room for improvement in the composition arena from Asians to put it mildly.
- It actually comes from Puccini’s final opera Turandot, which was left unfinished when he died.
- Just like there are snobs in every other area of human endeavour.
- Bizet was seen as quite the rebel for having set his music to such a risqué plot.
- And to appreciate opera like for exemple the music of Mahler or a Beethoven sonata it takes