“Honestly I really can’t get why people love moonlight sonata so much! That this piece will forever be remembered on those people? It just has a simple melody but there is sadness, yes I can hear it? What’s in this piece! Can someone describe this? What emotion can you feel upon hearing this! What bar or passage or part of the moonlight sonata that makes you feel very tensed or very emotional?”
Rik N.
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Well lets see. It’s over 200 years old and is still praised as one of the greatest piano pieces ever written. When played properly it draws you in with its emotion. Like most people i love the 3rd mov. the aggitated feel of it, and the constant movement is what is so captivating about it. Just because it is a simple melody doesn’t mean it isn’t a masterpiece.
It’s a melancholic piece. Beethoven wrote it for one of his pupils, the 17years old Countesss Giulietta Guicciardi.. Beethoven had strong feelings towards her but they never started a relationship because they were from different social classes. The work was completed in 1801 and it’s start with a slow first movement which at the time of Beethoven was very unusual for a piano sonata.
It’s interesting that even non classical music listeners love the piece.. This shows the genius of the person who wrote it. My favorite movement of the sonata is the finale… I like it because it’s so stormy, it has a certain feeling of hoplesness in it, and you can see what a huge amount of talent Beethoven had for improvisation.
I just get sucked into how sad and calm it is…Although i pretty much agree with u…i also have no idea why Moonlight Sonata is so attractive…They only listened to the 1st movement thats the WORST part they should have listened to the ENTIRE sonata instead of just that sad depressing 1st movement…
Oh and i feel like Moonlight was just a selling mechanism for the publishers…When i play the right hand part(the fifth finger part)i feel as the bass and the treble are creating a vision of a pond and the fifth finger notes are creating ripples on the surface…
Edit:This is one of Beethoven’s easiest first movements to play too so its rather over played by amateur pianists but when it comes to the 2nd or 3rd movement they would just stone there lols…im now currently learning the 2nd movement and brushing up my 1st movement as well as learning the Revolutionary etude…
The ‘Moonlight’ part of the title did not come from Beethoven or his publishers (although I’m sure they probably were glad of such a title), it came from a critic of the day saying that listening to the first movement made him think of sitting in a boat on a lake with the moonlight shining down. It seems to have stuck
I love that song because it just flat-out moves me and makes me want to cry everytime I hear it. I think that it’s very difficult for songs to do that to people, and Moonlight Sonata does that. It’s melody is so sad and haunting, and that’s what makes it beautiful.
the sonata gives warm to the heart.
(much appreciated) take care!
i’m currently studying the sonata for my recital. i jaz hope that when i play it, i can play with the feeling of what is supposed to be played. (proper emotion) though i have to love the music and make it my own. i need to know the background of this piece. the meaning behind the piece. i know the fur elise and i was able to play it and got carried away by that piece. so if anyone knows the meaning behind the Moonlight Sonata, please, please, please.. inform me
Well I currently just finished the first movement. I feel like when people truely want to get captured in this piece, you have to close yours eyes and really pay attention to the song. You have to feel it rise and fall and try to be a part of it. Many people can not capture the feeling it brings, try listening to it at a deeper level.
The first movement’s meaning lies in the last two chords. What I mean is that the two last chords represent the gongs of the church bells and scare the heck out of me when I play them. They seem to represent death. Sure the piece might seem relaxing, but it is about death. I am really confused about the meaning of the third movement though, since it is violent but beautful. Anyway, that is my take on the first. If anyone understands the third, please contact me.
Beethoven has always been an inspiration to me. Suffering from minor depression this song almost speaks the depth of the emotional pains that I can feel. Whenever I play this song I’m slightly relieved because I hear that Beethoven felt those harsh feelings too, and that I’m not alone.