Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata no. 14 in c sharp minor op. 27 no. 2 (Moonlight)

Setting: Piano
Period: Classic
Length: 32 pages
Weight: 0.148 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1062
ISMN: 9790201810621
'Sonata quasi una fantasia'' was the title given to it by Beethoven, and yet the world of music knows it as the ''Moonlight Sonata'' ╩ an epithet that was already around during the composer’s lifetime. ''The lake rests quiet under the light of the moon at twilight- the wave thuds against the dark bank'', wrote Ludwig Rellstab on the 1st movement in 1823. ''It is as if we catch sight of a colossal grave in the middle of a lonely plain, palely lit by the sickle moon'', was what Wilhelm von Lenz w

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