Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven's Most Famous Piano Piece | Animated Score

Ludwig van Beethoven: “Moonlight” Sonata — I. Adagio sostenuto, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 27 No. 2 The famous first movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata (1801), which Beethoven asked to be played "very delicately and with the dampers raised": a quiet murmur of triplets, deep octaves in the bass and a slow, singing dotted-rhythm melody, rising through a darker middle section over a long G♯ pedal and sinking at the end into the deepest pianissimo. Requests welcome: tell me in the comments which piece to animate next. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:22 The melody 2:29 The middle section 3:44 The return 5:25 Coda The performance is programmed, not played live: every note's timing, touch, pedalling and phrasing was shaped by hand from the score, and rendered on a sampled concert grand. Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, “Moonlight” Sonata — I. Adagio sostenuto, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 27 No. 2. Public domain. Score from the Mutopia Project (mutopiaproject.org), typeset by Chris Sawer and Stewart Holmes, after the Berners edition of 1908 (ed. A. Winterberger) — CC BY-SA 2.5 — https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin... Piano: Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). Fonts: Cormorant Garamond and Jost (SIL Open Font License); Emmentaler (LilyPond). #beethoven #moonlightsonata #adagiosostenuto #classicalpiano #pianomusic #sheetmusic