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

170 Responses to “Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata”

  1. Adrian says:

    es bella música yo toco el violoncello. participo en la orquesta del barrio de rio gallegos. me gustaría que me mandaran partituras de acompañamiento de piano para cello.
    un gran saludo “adrián”

  2. trcay says:

    this song is good!!!i really love Beethoven songs!

  3. Tenitachi says:

    When I listen to this I imagine Beethoven sat at his piano, all short of stature and tufts of hair covering bald spots. A constant grimace on his face to rival Father Jack from Father Ted, grunting and snorting every so often, perhaps with a little growling too. This carries on until 1:46, where suddenly the last two minutes of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture take the place of Moonlight Sonata. His eyes bulging, it takes about thirty seconds for him to realise what’s going on. It’s too much, way too much. You can see the blood boiling beneath his skin. In the shadows of a potted plant squats that Russian bastard, wires in his hands pulling his keys like a puppet, singing “Du nununu nuh nuh NUH na na” under his breath. Too much. Beethoven’s eyes bulge so far out his sockets with rage, a trickle of silver spit flying rampant as he opens his scowl to shout, vocal cords vibrating. Too late. In a massive bang unheard through the din, the blood that had accumulated in his pudgy face splattered the entire room, along with brains and bits of teeth and skull. His work here done, Tchaikovsky casually runs his bloodied fingers through his hair, and walks sedately out the door. Or at least, this is MY interpretation of the Moonlight Sonata.

  4. memento mori says:

    macabre pale moon

  5. Elizabeth says:

    Beethoven!
    A real genius. I relly love this music. Its relaxing and majestic, poetry without words in a way. Beethoven was a real artist, a real magcian, a genius!

  6. Crystal says:

    Moonlight sonata actually has a story about it. One evening, the moon was shining brightly. Beethoven was taking his usual evening stroll went he rached a small, shabby hut. He saw a girl playing a song on the piano. It sounded very familiar. Beethoven then realised it was a song composed by himself.The girl was talking to her brother. “I`m so sorry, I could not save enough money to buy you a ticket to Beethoven`s concert…” the brother said sorrowfully to her blind sister. Instead of losing her temper, she said it was alright.
    She said she would try to memorise how his songs were played and play it to herself. Beethoven was deeply touched and walked into the hut. He played one of his songs for her. The girl was surprised to know that it was Beethoven himself. Beethoven invited the girl to come to his coincert and he wanted to share with her how beautiful the moon was. Despite the girl being blind, he composed a song that expressed the moon`s beauty. He then named it’moonlight sonata’.

  7. jessy says:

    the first time i heard this song was in a resident evil game for DS

  8. bob says:

    l love this song ^_^

  9. Matt J Asper says:

    it’s amazing how the efforts of men can produce something so marvellous and divine!

  10. PANCHO says:

    NO MAMEN, ESTA CANCION ESTA DE POCA MADRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. wenDii says:

    this song…aww i have no words to describe how much i love it. it is amazing ♥_♥

  12. MakaMan says:

    a bit fast but not bad at all

  13. Alisia Piano Fanatic says:

    One word to describe Moonlight Sonata: Beautiful

  14. Nicorusu Torisutan says:

    Simply amazing… First time really hearing it was in Resident Evil in the safe room.

    A truly remarcable piece.

    Beethoven was an absolute genius.

  15. andres romanov says:

    tenia su corazon roto y tambien la tristeza de ya no oir .pero es sencilla y bella a la vez esta sonata

  16. Karl says:

    tremendo Hombre que Musica….la Noche y el Dia

  17. Angel says:

    ever since i heard my friend play this song at school i fell in love with it .. it’s so beautiful … and ever since that day i been trying to learn it and i only know how to play the intro to it … I’m not giving up till i master it . but beautiful beautiful song i love it …

  18. janine says:

    THE MOONLIGHT SONATA (story)

    One evening Ludwig van Beethoven and a friend were taking a walk. As they were passing through a narrow, dark street, they heard music coming from a little house.
    “Hush!” Beethoven said. “It is from one of my most beautiful pieces.”
    Suddenly a voice said, “I cannot play any more – it is so beautiful! How I wish I could hear that piece played by someone who could do justice to it!”
    Without a word, Beethoven and his friend entered the house. It was the home of a poor shoemaker. At the piano sat a young girl.
    “Pardon me,” said the great composer. “I am a musician. I heard you say you wished to hear someone play the piece you have just been playing. Will you permit me to play it for you?”
    “Thank you very much,” answered the girl, “but our piano is very old. And we have no music sheets”.
    “No music sheets! How did you play, then?” asked Beethoven.
    The young girl turned her face toward the great master. Looking at her more closely, he saw that she was blind.
    “I play from memory,” she said.
    “Where did you hear the piece that you were playing just now?”
    “I used to hear a lady practicing near our old home. During the summer evenings, her windows were open, and I walked to and fro outside to listen to her,” she answered.
    Beethoven seated himself at the piano. The blind girl and her brother listened with rapture to the master’s playing. At last the shoemaker came near and asked, “Who are you?”
    Beethoven made no answer. The shoemaker repeated his question, and the master smiled. He began to play the piece which the girl had been trying to play.
    The listeners held their breath. When the playing stopped, they cried, “ You are the master himself! You are Beethoven!”
    He rose to go, but they held him back.
    “Play for us once more – only once more,” they pleaded. He seated himself again at the piano. The brilliant moonlight was shining into the bare little room.
    “I will compose a sonata to the moonlight,” he said. He looked thoughtfully for sometime at the bright sky lit up by the moon and the twinkling stars. Then his fingers moved over the keys of the old, worn piano. In low, sad, sweet strains, he played his new piece. Finally, pushing back his chair, and turning towards the door he said, “Farewell to you.”
    He paused and looked tenderly at the face of the blind girl. “Yes, I will come again and give you some lessons. Farewell! I will soon come again!”
    Beethoven said to his friend, “Let us hurry that I may write out the sonata while I can yet remember it!”
    That was how Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous “Moonlight Sonata” was composed.

  19. Rodalyn Rodriguez says:

    i love this music by Beethoven.. It’s relaxing. Perfect for those people who have many worries in life like me

  20. Rodalyn Rodriguez says:

    i will not be tired listening to this music. never. it’s so good.

  21. bunnygotblog says:

    I could listen for hours.
    Great site.

  22. Downer says:

    I listened to this song 100 times.
    helps with depression

  23. turno_one says:

    esto si es arte

    me encanta

  24. Shakespearita says:

    Genial… me deja sin aliento… me encantaría escuchar juntas las piezas de claro de luna de Debussy y Bethoven juntas en vivo… Eso sería practicamente algo glorioso….

  25. laughingsister says:

    delightfully well played piece; thank you

  26. superknight says:

    i thought i was the music sheet

  27. JERRY says:

    Words cannot describe this beautiful piece!

  28. Jesse Martin says:

    This is great music to put in my next movie for my website. my website is http://www.myfaveflicks.net

  29. Jesse Martin says:

    My movie is called Battle for Atlantis Sea of Dreams. Watch it on June 30,2009 on http://www.myfaveflicks.net

    This is great music for the ending.

    I heard it in a Spiderman Web of Shadows trailer.

  30. Hi. Im Jesse L Martin. I like this music as well as all the other people like it. It’s peaceful. See me on TV!

  31. jere says:

    i first heard moonlight sonta when i was 12 years old, 50 years ago….the sounds touched my heart and i could no longer keep it closed. good will to all, for there you are.

  32. KingofMoonMen says:

    Satin slowly, softly, deliberately sliding its way across the skin. A cool summer night’s breeze kissing the sweat on your forehead. The grass, prickly and smelling of a thousand scents of the field invade your nostrils with thier welcome relief. The Sun slowly sets over the horizon while the crickets, barely audible, serenade you with thier monotone, yet immesuarably beautiful song. Your eyes begin to sag under the weight of the sheer relief of the moment, and slowly, purposefully you slip into slumber under the stars. Bliss cannot describe this event, only emotions, only the very senses with which you feel every blade of grass, ever pattern of the breeze, ever waking moment of nature’s million-year-old performance. This is what beauty consists of, the very embodiment of the audible climax which our ears were created for. One cannot ever fully appreciate this piece of music, nay, masterpiece of human perfection. If ever a song had the ability to truly transport one to a certain scene, to invoke the emotion of true peace, solemn joy, or quiet, uncompromising purpose, this piece of human perfection achieves this and much, much more.

  33. lizbth says:

    es tan perfecta…

  34. MELTEM says:

    I listened that millions times..each one touched my heart took my soul..so many times it makes me cries…bu bbir büyü…MAGİCAL.

  35. María says:

    Hola Adrián
    Soy María
    Me podrías sugerir algunos discos y/o músicos
    de violoncello me gustaría escucharlos y no encuentro hasta la fecha.

    Gracias.

  36. mehmet says:

    mukemmel dogrusu bızı cok uzaklara goturdu sıhırlı hos ve guzel bır dunyaya sadece huzur dolu tesekkurler Bethoven

  37. Mathieu says:

    this is the song that inspierd me to play piano im learning it just as i listen

  38. Iris Mae says:

    ..this piece is really nice

  39. Selin says:

    I love this song everyday i try to play this song on the piano im not so good in piano cause im new.

  40. Sara says:

    I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

    Sara

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  41. lana says:

    It is very important to me to listen to this lovely and magical music at the morning.
    Lana

  42. lana says:

    It is very important to me to listen to this lovely and magical music at the morning
    Lana

  43. christina. says:

    perfect.

  44. Nohemi says:

    Es una delicia como el mar

  45. Carmen says:

    ¡Simplemente hermosa!.
    Cuando las palabras no pueden expresar lo maravilloso que puede existir en este mundo, surge la música desde el fondo del alma.

  46. chris says:

    i love this song beethove’s songs are beautiful there’s no name for how good his songs are hes a genuis when i heard the the song i thought he played it and was sad but then i read the story and found out why he wrote the song he is magnificent and marvelouse in so inpressed by his music he inspires me he made me love his music and i love is songs so much im learning how to play his songs when i hear this song somtimes it helps me fall asleep it relaxes me i love beethoven if i had a choice to either listen to fur elis or moonlight sonota id pick moonlight sonota thanks beethoven

  47. Kelly says:

    “It sounded very familiar. Beethoven then realised it was a song composed by himself.The girl was talking to her brother. “I`m so sorry, I could not save enough money to buy you a ticket to Beethoven`s concert…” the brother said sorrowfully to her blind sister. Instead of losing her temper, she said it was alright.”

    Yeah, nice story, except the song was not named Moonlight Sonata by the composer himself, and was reportedly inspired by infatuation with one of his students.

    Also, he was starting to lose his hearing by then, which makes the overheard conversation anecdote rather unlikely.

    I’m not trying to be a jerk, but it’s one of the most gorgeous pieces of music ever written, why does it need some trite backstory?

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  49. EL NOVATO says:

    hola, a todos esta obra es una cosa bellisima… alguien sabe en donde puedo bajar la partitura original…. saludos y gracias..

  50. eddy says:

    i love beethoven

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