Chapter XLII - Moonlight
Composed in 1801 and dedicated to the Countess
Giuletta Ricciardi only 17 years, beloved student and the teacher, the Moonlight Sonata tells a passionate love story and stormy. Rejected by the parents of Giuletta because their social status and as an advanced hearing is that Beethoven
, absorbed and increasingly removed from the world, composed this beautiful piece he entitled "Quasi una Fantasia"
With the help of a score in PDF format, different software for creating, producing and editing music, wit, many hours of work and infinite patience is that I could set my machine to run the sonata.
The book starts with a very pronounced beat, slow, deep, almost mournful, in which Beethoven gives us to understand his depression. Then comes the arpeggio, only 3 mysterious notes that are repeated endlessly throughout the movement, to make way for the melody, infinitely sad and hopeless. The calm of the sonata is suddenly torn with incessant scales, in which the music seems to swirl, as if the piano would scream. Feelings are confused, love, desire, despair and anger at the frustration of unconsummated love is what drives the music in this part "is beautiful to the bone" and "nothing would make me happier than to marry she "had told a friend to Beethoven in a letter referring to Giuletta. The scale goes down, or rather "falls." The hopes are gone ... Finally returns the compass marking, arpeggio and melody, but this time with passion and force very different from the first part ...
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Ludwig
Van Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, "Moonlight"
Schedules and additional arrangements: Marcelo Perez Santiago