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2:05 Second Movement created in MIDI and played on a digital piano. Featured File:Beethoven Moonlight 3rd movement.ogg: 6:55 Third Movement (Presto agitato) created in MIDI and played on a digital piano. Featured File:Ludwig van Beethoven - sonata no. 14 in c sharp minor 'moonlight', op. 27 no. 2 - i. adagio sostenuto.ogg: 6:03 recording. First ...
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil Countess Julie "Giulietta" Guicciardi. [b] Although known throughout the world as the Moonlight Sonata (German: Mondscheinsonate), it was not Beethoven who named it ...
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 32 mature piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. (He also wrote 3 juvenile sonatas at the age of 13 [1] and one unfinished sonata, WoO. 51.)Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music. [2]
Vladimir Horowitz in 1931. The Russian and American classical virtuoso pianist Vladimir Horowitz [1] was a recording artist for over 60 years; beginning in 1926 on a piano roll system for Welte-Mignon, then with audio recordings, starting in 1928 for the Victor Talking Machine Company, later RCA Victor. [2]
Artur Schnabel, 1906. Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel was the first pianist to record all of Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. [1] The recordings were made in Abbey Road Studios in London on a C. Bechstein grand piano [2] from 1932 to 1935, [3] [4] [5] seven years after electrical recording was invented. [4]
A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements , although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Liszt , Scriabin , Medtner , Berg ), others with two movements ( Haydn , Beethoven ), some contain five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata , Czerny 's Piano Sonata ...
The second sonata is one of the most famous piano works in the repertoire and often called the Moonlight sonata, a contentious name not given by the composer himself. The first sonata remains far less performed than the second and the two sonatas are not commonly performed together. They are named so for their only loose adherence to the sonata ...
The late piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven usually refer to the last five piano sonatas the composer composed during his late period. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110