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Rellstab met Beethoven in 1825, [10] making it theoretically possible for Beethoven to have known of the moonlight comparison, though the nickname may not have arisen until later. By the late 1830s, the name "Mondscheinsonate" was being used in German publications [11] and "Moonlight Sonata" in English [12] publications. Later in the nineteenth ...
The first movement of both sonatas are slow and lacking in full sonata form. The second movements are scherzos. The sonatas differ in structure in the third movement and only the first sonata has a fourth movement. In the first sonata, thematic material is referenced from one movement to the other which is also uncommon in a typical sonata of ...
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]
Beethoven's sketches for the first, second, and final movements survive, but the original autograph copy is lost. [2] [3] The sonata was published separately from its more famous companion, Op. 27 No. 2 (the "Moonlight" Sonata), but at the same time, [4] by Cappi in Vienna; the first advertisements for the work appeared 3 March 1802. [2]
Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with two movements (Haydn, Beethoven), some contain five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata, Czerny's Piano Sonata No. 1, Godowsky's Piano Sonata) or even more movements.
File:Beethoven Moonlight 2nd movement.ogg: 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 ...