Sandhusrt L - Nice choices there - that is a really good piece of music. Came across this bit of trivia about the Adagietto: it was played at the funeral of Robert Kennedy (slain US presidential candidate) in 1968 at St Patrick's cathedral in NYC. ########### And here is Beethoven's Für Elise - prolly the most played and over played work of Beethoven in many parts of the world:) I chose it because it often serves as the initiation into the world of classical music for many people - including myself. I guess that fact that it is a solo makes it a simple yet appealing piece that serves to remind people that this type of music is within the reach of anyone infront of a piano who has a desire to learn. Performed here by Ivo Pogorelich And this from wikipedia: "Für Elise" (German for "For Elise") is the popular name of the "Bagatelle in A minor", WoO 59, a famous piece of music for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in about 1810. Beethoven scholars and critics are not entirely certain who "Elise" was. The most reasonable theory is that Beethoven originally titled his work "Für Therese", Therese being Therese Malfatti von Rohrenbach zu Dezza (1792-1851), whom Beethoven intended to marry in 1810. Unfortunately, she declined Beethoven's proposal. In 1816 Therese Malfatti, who was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Malfatti von Rohrenbach (1769-1829), married the Austrian nobleman and state official Wilhelm von Droßdik (1771-1859). When the work was published in 1865, the discoverer of the piece Ludwig Nohl mistranscribed the title as "Für Elise". The autograph is lost.