The nature of the music, so strongly defined, speaks its message to every age.
He even commented in a letter that its runaway success puzzled him he was sure he had written better pieces than this. The work’s exceptional popularity dates back to Beethoven’s own day. That might have prefigured this emotionally.”Ĭlick to load video Where have I have heard it before? Also, it might be the oncoming of the deafness, it might be the ‘Immortal Beloved’ – knowing that that love, like the loves of Romeo and Juliet, would never be lived. Murray Perahia noted, “A few of the emotions, the pain of that first movement I think is becoming manifest in many of his works. There seems, though, little limit to the theories on this sonata that abound there may yet be further surprises in store. Some associate the introspective, funereal quality of this music with Beethoven’s state of mind as he faced the onset of this cruel malady. Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata dates from the year before the so-called Heiligenstadt Testament, the document in which Beethoven described to his brother the devastating impact of his deafness. The first, hypnotic, movement is the most well-known the dotted rhythm of its minimal melody evoking the tradition of ‘Trauermusik’ (funeral music). Beethoven composed the sonata in 1801 and dedicated it to one of his pupils, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi – once thought to have been Beethoven’s mysterious ‘ Immortal Beloved’ (though now the musicological finger points more strongly towards Antonie Brentano).
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