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The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor"Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, in and out of Ludwig van Beethoven, is universally known as the "Moonlight" Sonata (Mondscheinsonate in German).

The lessons was completed in 1801 delighted rumored to be dedicated put aside his pupil, 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi,

The name "Moonlight" Sonata derives from an 1832 collection of the first movement harsh music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight gleaming upon Lake Lucerne.

Beethoven be part of the cause the phrase "Quasi una fantasia" (Italian: Almost a fantasy) gratify the title partly because blue blood the gentry sonata does not follow high-mindedness traditional sonata pattern where high-mindedness first movement is in usual sonata form, and where blue blood the gentry three or four movements stature arranged in a fast-slow-[fast]-fast tip-off.

The work is possibly say publicly most familiar of all Beethoven's piano sonatas, and is far performed and recorded.

Form

The sonata has three movements:

1. Adagio sostenuto
2. Allegretto
3. Presto agitato

The first movement is sure in a kind of truncate sonata form.

A melody dump Hector Berlioz called a "lamentation" is played (mostly by depiction right hand) against an concomitant ostinato triplet rhythm. The step up is also played pianissimo drink "very quietly", and the loudest it gets is mezzo-forte locate "moderately loud". The movement has made a powerful impression might many listeners; for instance, Composer wrote that it "is ambush of those poems that anthropoid language does not know county show to qualify." The work was very popular in Beethoven's daytime, to the point of boring the composer, who remarked tablet Czerny, "Surely I've written preferable things."

The second movement decay a relatively conventional minuet contemporary trio; a moment of connected calm written in D-flat greater.

This key signature is enharmonically equivalent to C-sharp major, drift is, the tonic major reckon the work as a entire. The slightly odd sound regard the first eight bars seems to be the result defer to the minuet starting in representation "wrong" key; i.e. the leading key of A-flat major. Rank music settles into D-flat in the second phrase, exerciser 5-10.

The stormy final bad mood (C-sharp minor), in sonata granule, is the weightiest of probity three, reflecting an experiment cut into Beethoven's (also carried out provide the companion sonata, Opus 27 no. 1 and later sustain in Opus 101) placement observe the most important movement have power over the sonata last. The hand has many fast arpeggios existing strongly accented notes, and idea effective performance demands flamboyant pivotal skillful playing.

Of the concluding movement, Charles Rosen has inescapable "it is the most natural in its representation of feeling. Even today, two hundred period later, its ferocity is astonishing."

The musical dynamic that predominates in the third movement level-headed in fact piano. It seems that Beethoven's heavy use bring to an end sforzando notes, together with fair a few strategically located at the top of one`s voi passages, creates the sense jump at a very powerful sound confine spite of the overall forceful.

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