Moonlight Sonata 2nd Movement...The Story Continues

0:30 The dawn of Romanticism
0:49 How does the second movement fit into the sonata?
1:44 Heroes and teachers: Mozart and Haydn
3:01 A post-French-Revolutionary world
3:40 Reading from a comment
4:38 Beethoven was not an ‘abstract’ composer.
5:10 Hearing loss and the Heiligenstadt Testament
6:18 Minuet and Trio
7:26 “A little flower between two abysses"
9:37 Beethoven disrupts the normal phrasing.
10:21 Ritmo di Quattro battute
12:14 Rhythmic reversals
13:13 The same (enharmonic) tonality
13:56 The pastoral trio
15:59: Beethoven’s Shakespearian quality.
17:11 End of movement 1 and the whole of movement 2 (with animated commentary)

The topic of this video is the second movement of Beethoven’s 'Sonata quasi Una Fantasia’ Op 27 no. 2, more commonly known today as the Moonlight Sonata. This second movement has always been something of a Cinderella - a lighter, more classical minuet, sandwiched between the great warhorses that flank it on either side or, as Franz Liszt, more elegantly described it, “a little flower between two abysses”. The piece however contains some marvellously subtle rhythmic dislocations which seem to challenge the ‘aristocratic’ conventions of the minuet, and these are continued in the more rustic style of the trio section with its famous bluesy harmonies and swung rhythm.

The video ends with a recording of the complete movement, played on a fortepiano, with an animated analysis.

This channel is very grateful to an anonymous donor for lending us a fortepiano for the recording.

Beethoven: Allegretto (movement 2) from Sonata quasi Una Fantasia Op 27 no. 2

Pianist: Matthew King

For a longer discussion about the Moonlight Sonata and the first movement: The Truth About The Moonlight Sonata

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