A melody that Hector Berlioz called a "lamentation", mostly by the right hand, is played against an accompanying ostinato triplet rhythm, simultaneously played by the right hand. The movement opens with an octave in the left hand and a triplet figuration in the right. The first movement, in C ♯ minor, is written in an approximate truncated sonata form. He wanted a prelude, an introduction, not a proposition.” Beethoven rebelled against this determinative quality in the first movement. which succeeding movements could supplement but not change. In his analysis of the Moonlight sonata, German critic Paul Bekker states that “The opening sonata-allegro movement gave the work a definite character from the beginning. To be sure, the deviation from traditional sonata form is intentional. Instead, the Moonlight sonata possesses an end-weighted trajectory with the rapid music held off until the third movement. īeethoven included the phrase "Quasi una fantasia" ( Italian: Almost a fantasy) in the title partly because the sonata does not follow the traditional movement arrangement of fast-slow-fast. The name "Moonlight" Sonata derives from an 1832 description of the first movement by music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. It is one of Beethoven's most popular sonatas. It is rumored to be dedicated to his pupil, 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, with whom Beethoven was, or had been, in love. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata ( Mondscheinsonate in German), was completed in 1801.
14 in C ♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", op.
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