Kety Fusco rehabilitates Beethoven’s Therese Malfatti

Kety Fusco is back with her haunting and beats-heavy rendition of the Beethoven classic Für Elise. Now coined «Für Therese» to highlight the the original recipient of the song: Therese Malfatti a non-mutual love of Beethoven.

A simple transcription error changed everything: «Therese» became «Elise». From that moment, the piece took a path Beethoven never intended. No love story. No happy ending. And to make matters worse, the real name was erased from history.

This theory has long fascinated Kety Fusco. Who was Therese? Who was Elise? And what was Beethoven truly trying to express with a melody he could no longer hear?

Kety turned this question into a sonic journey. And instead of playing the piece sweetly, she chose to scream it through her harp — a harp that is prepared, distorted, raw. It doesn’t accompany. It screams. As if Beethoven himself were furious, shouting to the world: “You didn’t understand. It wasn’t for Elise. It was for Therese.”