Part of the letter read, " Everybody is talking about the C-sharp Minor Sonata! Surely, I have written better things.”Īt this time, the music piece had not yet been nicknamed as the 'Moonlight' sonata, which came later after Beethoven's death, when the German music critic, Ludwig Rellstab, described its opening movements as similar to the moonlight’s flickering on the surface of Lake Lucerne. In this unpleasant surprise, he wrote to his friend expressing his disappointment. He didn't think that the piece would become as popular as it did. Even though their love didn’t prosper, Giulietta admits that the Sonata always reminded her of Beethoven.īeethoven composed the 'Moonlight' sonata like he would write other songs and gave it a pedestrian title that would describe a fantasy style. He proposed marriage to her, but her father forbade her from marrying him as he was without rank. Beethoven had mastered almost every keynote despite his deafening ears and could make out most of what the music would sound like.īeethoven dedicated the 'Moonlight' sonata to his 16-year old lover and student, Giulietta Guicciardi, whom he had fallen in love with at around that time. There were many speculations on the cause of his deafness, but many people thought that it could have been a consequence of his habitual plunging his head into cold water to remain awake.
He wrote and published it in 1801-1802 during the Classical music era.īeethoven wrote this masterpiece at a difficult time when his hearing had begun to deteriorate seriously. The ‘ Sonata quasi una fantasia,’ now commonly known as the 'Moonlight Sonata', was Ludwig Van Beethoven's 14 th piano sonata, Opus 27, Number 2. A Brief History of the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata
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