Fire up any online piano lesson or sheet music platform and one of the most popular pieces will inevitably be Beethoven’s Für Elise, the ubiquitous bagatelle that the whole world wants to play. This being the case,

NEW YORK — 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.”

Batiste’s reinterpretations of some of the classical composer’s best-known works. Announcing the project Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter, Batiste wrote, “Since childhood I've made a practice of interpolating classical piano music as if it were my own.