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Adagio sostenuto from the "Moonlight" Piano Sonata.
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Allegretto from the "Moonlight" Piano Sonata.
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Presto agitato from the "Moonlight" Piano Sonata.
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The Moonlight Sonata has its name from the inspiration of the poet Rellstab
(whose verses were to be set to music by Schubert). Writing in 1832 he
likened the sonata to the wild scenery bordering Lake Lucerne, seen from a
boat by moonlight. The French romantic composer Berlioz, on the other hand,
preferred to see sunlight in the sonata, and other writers have been equally
imaginative.
The sonata is more properly described by its title Sonata quasi una
fantasia. The imaginative writer Arnold Schering, already referred to, found
a literary parallel with Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, but others have
chosen to find in the sonata romantic notions of a different kind. It was
completed in 1801, and dedicate, at the last minute, to Countess Giulietta
Guicciardi, a young pupil of Beethoven.
This sonata has always enjoyed enormous popularity, and has, therefore, been
the subject of speculation. It has also undergone the indignity of various
arrangements, including, in 1835, a concert performance in which the first
movement was played by an orchestra, and the second two by Liszt. The form
of the Moonlight Sonata is unusual. Its first movement, a texture of
delicacy, is a slow one, and it is followed by a brief second movement in
the form of a scherzo and trio, the slightly less regular successor
of the Minuet. Histrionics are left until the last movement, with
its contrasts of melody and dynamics.
Multimedia Beethoven provides information about the following Beethoven's
piano sonatas. This part is still under construction and soon another sonatas
will be added.
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