Im just wondering. Its such a beautiful and well known piece, and its nice to see how other interpret it.
Thanks!
2007-11-08 05:52:57 · 9 answers · asked by kitamonster 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Thanks del_icious for your lengthy answer, but for your opinion, i asked about it because it is the most popular, and it is popular for a reason, because it is beautiful. Of course there are other beautiful pieces and talented composers, and yes, i have heard them. Thanks for attempting to embarrass me with your "education" on classical music.
2007-11-08 06:27:39 · update #1
here's the story about the Moonlight Sonata. i don't know if it's true, but it's nice.
listen and read yourself
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZbwJarFL1c8
2007-11-08 07:01:02 · answer #1 · answered by aeroman762002 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The story behind it:
Beethoven was taking a walk at dusk, when he hears piano music, in fact, it was his own composition. He peers into a window of a poor house. Inside, a young teenage blind girl was struggling at her piano. Another young man was fixing shoes. The girls comments how hard it was to play the piece, and wished to hear Beethoven himself play it. The shoemaker agreed, but sadly said they didn't have enough money for it.
Beethoven pitied them so he walked in and they let him play it for them. While he was playing, the girl sat by the window.
A cool breeze blew in and blew out the candle. The girl was beautiful in the moonlight, like a marble statue, and Beethoven was moved, and suddenly began to compose the Moonlight Sonata. He composed as he played, and the boy and girl were caught in this breath taking music. He left quickly when he was finished, and it wasn't until after he had left that the two people in the house realized who he was.
Beethoven went home and wrote down the sonata.
2007-11-08 19:23:45 · answer #2 · answered by enitsey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I now see it as ruined for me. I hear it SO often that its greatness has been eroded for me and I now roll my eyes and groan whenever I hear it. Or, should I say, when I hear the first movement. The people who listen to this sonata at the expense of the other 31 masterpieces Beethoven wrote in the genre not only do that magnificent composer a huge disservice but also ignore the fact that the sonata actually has three movements - the last two getting ignored almost as much as the other 31 piano sonatas.
I BEG people who only listen to the Moonlight Sonata and Für Elise and think they know about Beethoven to explore his other music. He was one of the most important, revolutionary and astounding composers ever to have walked the earth and ALL his great music (and he did write a few clangers!) deserves to be listened to and appreciated.
Remember, you heard the Moonlight Sonata for the first time once - give the other stuff a try. PLEASE!
2007-11-08 14:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by del_icious_manager 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Whilst i agree in part with the first respondent of your question that the first mvt of the moonlight is played very frequently as opposed to other works such as the Hammerclavier and the Apassionata, it still stands on its own as a work of magnificence.
I was first introduced to the first movement of the moonlight when i was 11 years old, and my piano teacher suggested it for a competition i was entering. I have been captivated ever since.
The mesmerizing and misleadingly calming opening movement belies the eventual breakdown into a frenzied madness of the destructive third movement creates in itself a piece that is fundamentally unique.
It is a work of great beauty and rightly so.
2007-11-08 15:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by requiemvalorum 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry that delicious is jaded by the piece. It still moves me everytime I hear it. The one thing about comments on the piece that really urks me is the fact that most people only really talk about the first movement. The rest of the work is equally remarkable. The presto agitato is quite the most anxious piece of music I've ever heard - the anxiety, frustration and simmering anger is almost palpable.
2007-11-08 14:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I like the starting part. If you close your eyes and imagine, it seems to lead you, to embark on a new road. It is relaxing and soothing though the mood of the piece seems to be a little sad and gloomy. Beethoven's rich expressions are clearly seen in this piece.
2007-11-11 05:43:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a bit like "Smoke on the Water " ; heard it too many times in the music shop. There are heaps of other better things that he wrote.
2007-11-08 19:02:56 · answer #7 · answered by brian777999 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It mimics the toll bell. as if it were tolling the end of a day , or the end of a life.
2007-11-12 13:38:27 · answer #8 · answered by jerrytaylor501 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beautiful... haunting... overplayed.
2007-11-09 03:22:21 · answer #9 · answered by djb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋