Strictly speaking, Ludwig van Beethoven's famed Moonlight Sonata is not a sonata at all-nor did the composer's intentions in writing it have anything to do with moonlight. The so-called sonata form in wide use in Beethoven's lifetime dictated a strict structural order - which this giant among composers chanted and expanded and imbued with a new sense of dramatic content. The poet Ludwig Rellstab, a contemporary of Beethoven's, remarked that the first movement of this piano work in C-sharp minor reminded him of moonlight on Lake Lucerne - and the Moonlight Sonata gained its nickname for posterity.

This rendition is more than 16 minutes long. Prepare to enjoy...a nice cigar and snifter of Cognac makes a nice accompaniment. (grin)

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