Moonlight sonata6/2/2023 This interpretation focuses on the dark and depressing qualities of the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata. The main focus of this approach is to express loneliness, sadness, and anguish caused by unfulfilled love between the composer and Countess Giulietta. It closely follows newly emerging topics of Romantic music and Beethoven, while being a classical composer is often considered one of the precursors of new trends. This interpretation is possibly the most common. At the same time, considering the biographical facts mentioned above, there exist at least three possible explanations of the meaning of the music of the first movement of this sonata. The interpretation of music is, of course, a somewhat subjective domain. Love, drama, and philosophy – the artistic meaning of ‘Moonlight’ Sonata His deep artistic mission to create music for eternity was more important than the everyday difficulties he encountered. ![]() This document, commonly called the ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’ shows a man who, despite circumstances, decides to go on living. In a letter written by the composer one year following ‘Moonlight,’ he contemplates taking his own life. You might think that in light of so many life difficulties, Beethoven would feel depressed or even suicidal. Beethoven also suffered because of the death of one of his closest friends. ![]() He was deeply in love with one of his students (seventeen-year-old Countess Giulietta Gucciardi), who two years later married another man. To name just a few, he realized that his worsening deafness might never be cured. The term ‘Moonlight’ was not given to the piece by Beethoven but by poet Ludwig Rellstab in 1832 (after the composer’s death).Īt the time of writing Moonlight,’ Beethoven’s life was at a breaking point due to several factors. ‘Moonlight’ Sonata was written in 1801 and published in 1802. Today, in the first part of the article, I would like to focus on the historical background and the artistic meaning of the sonata’s first movement.
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