September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Beethoven wrote over 30 piano sonatas during his lifetime, many of which are brilliant and beautiful, yet none is as famous as the beloved Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, or “Moonlight Sonata.” Its wild popularity is due in large part to its mournful first movement, but there is more to the sonata than the brooding melody and arpeggios of the adagio.

The fact that the sonata begins with an adagio, with such a lamenting tone, is rather unusual, especially since ...
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