I think that the name “moonlight sonata” is kind of misleading to Beethoven’s primary intention. The emotion goes from quiet and sombre to strong and powerful. The most amazing part of this piano sonata is its dynamic changes throughout the whole music. Moonlight sonata is definitely my favorite one among all piano sonatas Beethoven compose. Beethoven used crescendo a lot to move the passage from piano to fortissimo and to create the sense of a very powerful sound.
Even today, two hundred years later, its ferocity is astonishing.” The writing of this movement contains lots of strongly accented notes and dynamic changes. This movement, as what Charles Rosen said, is ” the most unbridled in its representation of emotion. It plays a role of connecting the first and third movement together, which Franz List called it “a flower between two chasms”. The slight majority of the movement is in piano, but a handful of forte-pianos helps to maintain the movement’s cheerful disposition.īeethoven placed the most important final stormy mvement in the last. The second movement is getting a little bite faster and it’s moving forward to the next movement. This beginning movement is more like an introduction or a prelude. For instance, Berlioz said of it that it “is one of those poems that human language does not know how to qualify”. The adagio sostenuto has made a powerful impression on many listeners. Instead, the first movement is played very quietly (pianissimo), and the loudest it gets is mezzo forte. It is significant is the way the layout of this work does not follow the traditional movement arrangement in the classical period of fast–slow–fast. This sonata consists of three movement: Adagio sostenuto, allegretto and presto agitato.
It is a piano sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven, one of the most influential musicians in late 18th century. The name “Moonlight Sonata” is given by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab five years after Beethoven’s death, for that moonlight shining effect in the first movement. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a famous classical piece that communicates a story without lyrics.
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