Then in the third movement, the frantic pace and crashing chords give a thrilling ending. The second movement is less brooding and becomes almost cheerful and friendly. When it was written, musicians used broken chords and arpeggios to improvise a tune but rarely wrote them into a piece. The haunting melody moves the listener gently through the piece with rolling arpeggios. The first movement is dark, moody, and the most famous. He adds the epithet Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, which lets the listener know this piece is more free-form than the usual sonata. Each section creates a mood or theme and focuses on one central instrument (in this case, the piano).īeethoven follows the format of a sonata to a point, but as usual, he breaks more rules than he follows. 1 and later on in Opus 101) placement of the most important movement of the sonata last.Like a proper sonata, the Moonlight sonata is divided into three different movements. Presto agitato, n sonata form, is the weightiest of the three, reflecting an experiment of Beethoven's (also carried out in the companion sonata, Opus 27, No. Allegretto is a relatively conventional scherzo and trio, a moment of relative calm written in D-flat major, the more easily-notated enharmonic equivalent of C♯ major, the parallel major of C♯ minor.ģ. Adagio sostenuto, in C♯ minor, is written in an approximate truncated sonata form.Ģ. Later in the nineteenth century, it could be said that the sonata was "universally known" by that nameĪnd Moonlight Sonata consists of three movements:ġ. Within ten years, the name ("Mondscheinsonate" in German) was being used in German and English publications. In 1832, five years after Beethoven's death, Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. The name Moonlight Sonata has its origins in remarks by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab.
Completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, it is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op.
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