Moonlight Sonata

Name: Moonlight Sonata
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
ISBN: 9781787248786

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Kingsbury
Language: English
Length: 13 minutes
ISBN: 9781787248786
Published: 15 April 2015
Imprint: Urban Romantics

Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven
classic
piano
romantic
nocturnal
stormy
moody
Mondscheinsonate

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Description

Moonlight Sonata is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano. Its original title Sonata quasi una fantasia translates as Sonata Fantasy. The name Mondscheinsonate comes from descriptions used by Ludwig Rellstab, a German music critic and poet who likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. Beethoven's student Carl Czerny called it a nocturnal scene, in which a mournful ghostly voice sounds from the distance.

Author

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was born in Bonn, settled in Vienna, and wrote through a deafness that should have ended the career. The piano sonatas — the so-called Moonlight among them — are private weather at public volume; the Ninth Symphony put a chorus on the summit of the orchestral mountain. Late quartets followed, as if the string quartet had more future than the man. He did not make difficulty decorative. He made it the architecture.

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