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Re: [F_minor] Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata



I look at it this way:

Beethoven made "The Moonlight Sonata" possible, in all its iterations.



At 03:31 PM 6/20/2008, Brad Lehman wrote:
Gould's recording of this is one of the few that seem *almost fast enough* to me in the first movement. The thing is, after all, marked in cut-C meter. Not the dawdling C (or 4/4) that it gets dragged out to, by so many others. Furthermore, the harmonic rhythm of the piece is so slow that it too (along with the cut-C meter) begs for a faster and more flowing tempo.

As for "moonlight", it wasn't Beethoven's own title for it anyway. Why should the piece have anything to do with moonlight?


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