'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