Ludwig van Beethoven
Written in D minor, range G3 to F5
A slow, quiet tune drifts over rippling chords, like a boat on a lake at night. Beethoven called the sonata “quasi una fantasia”; the name “Moonlight” came only after his death, from the critic Ludwig Rellstab, who heard moonlight on Lake Lucerne in this first movement. The piano part is Beethoven’s own, every note as he printed it.
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