Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata

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Listen to:

  1. Beethoven – Fur Elise
  2. Franz Liszt – Don Juan Paraphrase Part 2
  3. Bach – BWV 989 Variation no. 3
  4. Bach – BWV 989 Variation no. 2
  5. Schumann – Kinderszenen – Childhood
  6. Chopin – Valse de L’adieu
  7. Bach – BWV 846 Prelude
  8. Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune

192 Responses to “Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata”

  1. Kaitlyn A. Wilson says:

    I’ve loved this piece since the first time the tune reached my ears when I was only eight years old (I’m 15 now). I adore classical music and I’m beginning to listen to it every time I study.

  2. Gabe K. says:

    My sons are taking piano lessons and doing quite well. I’ve told them that the day either of them can play this piece for me I’ll die a happy man!

  3. Sarah C. says:

    i love this music. althought i dont know how to play the piano, im am playing it. it is prety amazing what i can do. i hope i will be able to play the whole song when im older. ( im 13 now)

  4. Katie says:

    I’m taking this song to competition in the spring. Its not as easy as it sounds trust me. I’ve been playing for 10 months and started on this song 3 months into my playing. The only reason i’m not done with it is because i can’t read music since i’m a drummer so i’m working on my reading through this. Apparently its pretty amazing for a beginner to play this kind of music so i’m proud. I’m 15 right now. Can’t wait to finish it. It’s such a pain. So many triplets and octaves. It hurts my hands

  5. Julie says:

    My 12 year old is learning this song. He is on the 3rd page, no mistakes, after 3 weeks. Eat your heart out! I LOVE IT!!!

  6. John-Tyler says:

    this is the greatest song ever also if u would like to talk in more detale or know of any good music stores in ardmoer oklahoma reach me at deathbladesmaster@yahoo.com

  7. John-Tyler says:

    congrats on ur sons great job he is very skillful to have almost masterd this song

  8. Helena says:

    Hi!

    Are you present at other site besides this page ?

    it would be a good thing ))))

  9. Jackie says:

    This is my very favorite ! Life is the most precious gift ! Priceless !!

  10. gilly says:

    Thank you for that wonderful verbal picture, Tenitachi.Very clever and funny.

  11. tota says:

    i love this wonderfu music and i hope in day i can play it thank you so much

  12. mstarr99 says:

    haha i love beethoven songs but i am trying to find it online and i cant find it for free

  13. AkiraAsylum says:

    Beethoven was a tragic composer, but his music was quite lovely. It awakens much emotions. Thanks for this. :)

  14. AK47 says:

    As Akira said Beethoven was a tragic composer but he could feel his his music inside of him.
    I am very gratefull to have listened to his music, i love it and Mozart is a very good composer to, but Beethoven calms me down and relaxes me. I love his work but i wish he wasn’t deaf.

  15. I loved his music and I would sit and listen to my older sister play it on the Piano, I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time. Now I will soon be 78 and there is as much magic in his music as it was once upon a time in Kentucky some 70 years ago… Akomi

  16. Steel says:

    To all those mastering the art of piano playing; sounds as you may well become great composers one day! To play without intsruction shows such dedication and self determination- good luck

  17. Michelle says:

    I love Beethoven myself. I am currently 9.I already know how to play a portion of Beethoven’s Fur Elise.I cannot understand why some people don’t like Beethoven’s compositions.Whatever the reason I love Beethoven’s masterpieces.I currently cannot play Moonlight Sonata because it is beyond my skill of piano playing.I strongly believe that one day I will be good enough to play it… Maybe even better!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. Michelle says:

    That and don’t use this to chat!

  19. Ana says:

    My favorite. I could listen to this forever. You can listen to all three movements at wikipedia. Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven)

  20. IsabellaL. says:

    I’m not a big fan of classical music. I like some certain classical music, but never thought my mine would actually be at peace with Beethoven’s song “Moonlight Sonata.”

  21. Alcure says:

    The major, Beethoven does me feel a cildren all the times that i listen him. I could listen it 4ever…

  22. sweetiepie24 says:

    Beethoven’s music is so lovey and it makes you what to play the piano and write music so basicly to do the right thing………..<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< :)

  23. Madeline says:

    I love this song. I can play the first movement already.(I’m only 10 years old.)

  24. Madeline says:

    I can play Fur Elise too. Im on level 9 in piano already.

  25. María says:

    Un placer para los oídos y el alma…

  26. yari says:

    i absolutely loved Moonlight Sonata the first time i heard my music teacher play it at school. I have only started playing last year and have already learned to play the first movement. im 17, not bad for a beginner. classical music is amazing, and its true wen u start to play this piece it hurts ur hands, real bad til u get used to it. I LOVE IT!

  27. Prince_ByTor says:

    Love reading the comments here from the young folks whose lives are influenced by not only listening to, but performing this kind of music. To me, there is nothing like the visceral feeling of performing a piece.

    Especially ones like this which, in my opinion and apparently the opinion of this performer, aren’t meant to be rendered in some exact way that’s written on the pages. There are nuances here that can only be suggested in that language, but if you really feel the song, you feel how each passage really wants to be played. When you’re the player. Feeling how you feel at the time you’re playing it.

    Long-winded way to say you should play this song however you want to. Own it. Slowly speed up the arpeggios on their way up, getting louder as you do, then quieter on the way down. Or the other way around. How you feel it at the time.

    Well, play by “their” rules at competition. Tripelet, tripelet, tripelet…. Yawn….. Then make it your song when you play it anywhere else. I think it’s what Ludwig wanted us to do with it.

  28. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    can’t believe how some peole say “i’m 9/10 (you fill here) yrs old and i can play the first movement” or “i can play the whole sonata”, etc. duh. masters of classical music such as beethoven, mozart, chopin, et al., they all were @ round their pre-teen ages when they composed their first sonatas/symphonies/preludes/concertos, etc. and @ the same time, many of’em were multi instrumentalists. were able to play piano, violin, etc.
    and you think you can play piano or something, just because you’re 9 or 10 yrs old. duh. c’mon! don’t make me laugh!

  29. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    btw, i ain’t saying it’s no good that they’re into classical music. but it’s nothing to mention bout here, no big deal. as i stated in my previous post, many of the great composers were child prodigies. so it’s no big deal to be able to play this sonata even if you’re a teenager. as i said, when masters like beethoven or mozart were 6 or 7, they’d already composed some of their masterpieces.

  30. María says:

    Aleksey : cierto lo que has dicho en cuanto a que muchos de los grandes compositores componían a corta edad y ejecutaban varios instrumentos, pero quisiera compartir contigo una reflexión:no todo el mundo tiene por qué ser un prodigio. Basta con amar la música. ¿Es que sólo valen los genios? Pienso que no. Me complace leer que muchachos y muchachas de corta edad estén interesados en esta clase de música. Es alentador, muy alentador.
    Saludos cordiales

  31. Abraham says:

    I love the song too it is very good. I am learning but I already know half of it just need to practice.

  32. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    @María :

    check out the first line of my second post above, i already mentioned that.
    quoted from my second post(pay attention to the first line please):
    “btw, i ain’t saying it’s no good that they’re into classical music. but it’s nothing to mention bout here, no big deal. as i stated in my previous post, many of the great composers were child prodigies. so it’s no big deal to be able to play this sonata even if you’re a teenager. as i said, when masters like beethoven or mozart were 6 or 7, they’d already composed some of their masterpieces.”

  33. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    without the geniuses of the music, nothing would be as it’s right now. it’s geniuses who drew the boundaries (beyond our imagination) of the modern music of today’s world. and it’s geniuses who drew the path of the music of the future from those early days.
    with all due respect, ordinary people w/ average talent just follow the path driven by the geniuses. one doesn’t necessarily have to be a composer to be “it”. think of Святослав Теофилович Рихтер (sviatoslav richter), he was a genius, he didn’t only play the music, but felt it & carried it to another dimension. put his soul into it. remember what glenn gould once said about richter in an interview (you can find it on youtube, i think)
    best wishes & friendly shake your hands
    aleksey gurbaghin

  34. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    under capitalist system, the artisans are bounded w/ the giant chains of money and its dominance. in capitalist societies, artisans simply can’t create freely, because they’re not free from the pressure of the multinational record companies, not free from the musical taste of masses who are ophiumed w/ the poisonous pop culture of the capitalist society. in a society under the dominance of money, no one, let alone the artisans, is free. so, in so-called free countries of the western sphere, artisans create/produce/compose to live, to earn money to survive. but in socialist/communist society, as they were in the great soviet union, artisans live to create/produce/compose; not for money, not to please critics or ophiumed masses. becausein communist society, they’re literally free, free to create/compose. as stated by the great leader of the oppressed & exploited poeoples of the world, comrade LENIN: one cannot talk about real/pure freedom in a society where there’s the dominance of money.
    lastly a qoutation from great musician and person sviatoslav richter:
    “Music must be given to those who love it. I want to give free concerts; that’s the answer.”

  35. Justin says:

    Musicians are indeed free in communist countries. Unless their art takes them counter to their regime. Then comrade Lenin or Stalin drags them off in the night to put a bullet in their head.

    Anyone is free to create music. There are no restraints. In a free society, if your work is music, and if people like your music, they buy it and you do well. If it is not well received, you starve until you come up with a better way to contribute to society.

    Under a totalitarian regime, those with their boots upon the neck of the people determine what is considered art. One has only to seriously study the political undercurrents of Shostakovich’s motives behind the 7th Symphony and the fine line he danced to see that. It was not all about Hitler and his armies.

  36. aleksey gurbaghin says:

    @ justin:
    what you said is the lies and dirty propaganda told by the capitalists, esp. the us. neither lenin nor stalin did ever give an order to anyone to put a bullet in anybody’s head.
    besides, we all know how awful, devastating things happened to the dissident artisans who lived in us during mccarthy era. and we all know and remember the segregation against the black people which occured in us from the foundation to the late 80′s in the us. we remember the ku klux klan, rodney king, and many more. even in late 60′s & 70′s black people were segregated from the so-called noble whites.
    we know how imperialist system assassinated or exiled dissident intellectuals, artisans in capitalis countries thruout the ages.
    we know how a rich minority live in wealth, while millions of poor people starve to death in africa, asia, and even in usa, like millions of homeless people.
    art means nothing if it has nothing to say about the exploited masses.

  37. Andrew bearden says:

    I told my daughter that if she learned this song without help in one week she could quit taking lessons. She did it in three days. The lessons still continue.

  38. amber says:

    the first time i heared the song i started likeing classical piano music more then any kind of music

  39. ha! says:

    Gente payasa presumida! Mi hijo la toca blah blah blah, yo toco esta cancion! blah blah blah… Y a quien le importa si la pueden tocar o no????

  40. M.L. TYLER says:

    this piece truly touches the soul

  41. Maggie says:

    I love this piece. I’ve begun to study it and I’m in love with it. Wonderful dynamics.

  42. fannas says:

    احب المقطوعات الكلاسيكية بلا اشتثناء وافضلها على سواهخا من المقطوعات الموسيقية على السواء

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