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Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by Arte Nova Music Lab. Classical,Concert,Standards,World. Score. 6 pages. Arte Nova Music Lab #4412113. Published by Arte Nova Music Lab (A0.742469).The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the
Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802
to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi.
The piece is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano, and it was a popular favorite even in
his own day. Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata in his early thirties, after he had finished with some
commissioned work; there is no evidence that he was commissioned to write this sonata.
The first edition of the score is headed Sonata quasi una fantasia, a title this work shares with its companion
piece,Op. 27, No. 1. Grove Music Online translates the Italian title as "sonata in the manner of a fantasy".The
title could also be interpreted to imply "...as though improvised".
The name "Moonlight Sonata" comes from remarks made by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab.
In 1832, five years after Beethoven's death, Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight
shining upon Lake Lucerne. Within ten years, the name "Moonlight Sonata" ("Mondscheinsonate" in German)
was being used in German and English publications. Later in the nineteenth century, the sonata was universally
known by that name.
Many critics have objected to the subjective, romantic nature of the title "Moonlight", which has at times been
called "a misleading approach to a movement with almost the character of a funeral march" and "absurd". Other
critics have approved of the sobriquet, finding it evocative or in line with their own interpretation of the work.
Gramophone founder Compton Mackenzie found the title "harmless", remarking that "it is silly for austere
critics to work themselves up into a state of almost hysterical rage with poor Rellstab", and adding, "what these
austere critics fail to grasp is that unless the general public had responded to the suggestion of moonlight in this
music Rellstab's remark would long ago have been forgotten."
Notes taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven)#cite_note-8
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