However, this isn’t Für Elise as you’re used to hearing it. It’s lifted from Batiste’s upcoming Beethoven Blues album, which puts a decidedly different spin on the Ludvig van canon. As the title suggests, its 12 tracks aren’t straight renditions of the great man’s work, but fresh takes that incorporate blues and gospel elements.

In 2023, Batiste sat down with CNN’s Chris Wallace for an episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” which streams on Max. Seated at a piano, Batiste demonstrated for Wallace how Beethoven’s well-known “Für Elise” could be recast with a blues or gospel feel.

When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night haunts in the heart of New Orleans.

Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste is set to release his first solo piano album, titled "Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1)," on Nov. 15.

Cuando el ganador del premio Grammy, Jon Batiste, era un niño, digamos, de 9 o 10 años, se movía entre mundos musicales diferentes: participaba en concursos locales de piano clásico durante el día, y luego “tocaba en lugares nocturnos en el corazón de Nueva Orleans”.