My favourite Piano Sonata, Opus 110 . And yes, if you push me, (please don’t,) my single favourite piece in all Beethoven’s music, Piano Sonata Opus 110. Listen to the recording made in 1967 by Jörg Demus in Beethoven’s birth house in Bonn on the last piano Beethoven owned (built by Conrad Graf).
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The most famous movement of any of the 32 Piano Sonatas is the opening movement of The Moonlight – the Sonata he composed for the woman he wanted to marry, Giulietta Guicciardi [see Chapter 6, Beethoven’s Women]. For the first time he put the slow movement first (something neither Haydn or Mozart ever did).
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Created in MIDI and recorded from a digital piano. The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2. Beethoven’s “Moonlight sonata”, a name coined by German music critic Ludwig Rellstab after Beethoven’s death, is one of the most widely known classical music pieces, and has been since it was composed some 200 years ago.
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Translated more literally, this is sonata almost a fantasy. The name Moonlight Sonata comes from remarks made by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab. In 1832, five years after Beethoven's death, Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.
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(Excellent playing there by Daniel Barenboim in above examples.) The third movement, a fierce fiery Presto in sonata form, starts with the same notes as the first movement, namely: c-sharp, g-sharp, c-sharp and e. Also, Beethoven adds an agitato instruction to the score.
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The stormy final movement (C♯ minor), in sonata form, is the weightiest of the three, reflecting an experiment of Beethoven's (also carried out in the companion sonata Opus 27, No. 1 and later on in Opus 101), namely, placement of the most important movement of the sonata last.
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Beethoven told the Archduke he would compose a Piano Sonata to mark the occasion. He completed the first movement, Das Lebewohl , before the Archduke left with his family on 4 May, and said he would complete the other two when he was sure of the Archduke’s return. This he duly did.
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The sonata, which is in three movements, as most sonatas of the classical period, is best known for the first movement, Adagio sostenuto (there are about 10 times as many recordings of it than there are of the whole piece). And thus, borrowing the idea of this baroque rhetoric figure, Beethoven starts his Sonata.
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Moonlight Sonata was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801, whilst Beethoven was staying in Hungary on an estate belonging to the Brunswick family. It was… published in 1802. One of my favourite past-times is driving and exploring with my husband (and my dog).
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how many movements in beethoven's moonlight sonata
There are three movements in the Beethoven Moonlight Sonata. There are three movements in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.