The Truth About The Moonlight Sonata

0:07 Introduction: one of the most famous pieces in the world 0:37 Things about the piece that are not so familiar 1:14 The historical context 1:55 The ’sacred tradition’ 2:29 Beethoven is going deaf 3:00 Two new sonatas 3:08 The career-defining genre 3:41 Sonata quasi una Fantasia - an experimental approach to the genre 5:17 “without dampers” 5:56 The fortepiano of Beethoven’s time 6:18 The tempo and the sonority 6:53 Impressionistic sound 7:52 An enormous hit 8:22 ’Moonlight’ was never Beethoven’s title 9:01 Connection with Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 13:08 The beginning 13:41 The ‘funeral march’ melody and Op 26 15:13 A ghost scene 15:49 The ’2nd subject’ lament 16:00 Dissonance 16:33 The dedicatee 17:45 The development section 18:52 The recapitulation 19:09 The coda 19:26 The whole form flows 19:44 The combination of classical form and improvisation 20:11 The other movements 20:40 The first movement playe