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  • Wish it was in HD Quality! That makes the sound better.

    Amazing!

  • @vtmike13 learn manners.

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  • When looking at his face, I think he enjoyed this piece the most to play

  • /watch?v=EmV35VPRT9s

  • this is actually my favourite movement of the three: graceful, charming, and light. THIS IS AMAZING!

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  • Ogni volta che ascolto o suono Beethoven mi viene da chiedermi dove trovava queste note. Quelle che compongono le sue opere sembrano diverse dalle altre note musicali.

  • am i the only one that went to this cuz of 9gag?

  • @Dinzluz What did 9gag post about this song?

  • good

  • personally, i like this one, its very calming, if you dont like it im sorry, you just dont understand Classical music.

  • @DJHeroMist its not that they dont understand classical music they just have different taste thats the beauty of it it will appeal to every one. this song is my least favorites of the moonlight series because it is the least fun to play and that is why mvt. 3 is my favorite

  • @wbcjohnlennon understandable. Atleast here when people say stuff its not all hatefull and people have a brain they use. Yes ok i could see why its the most least fun. At least its a better source of entertainment than most called,"Entertainment" I mean really... Rap? Screamo? Metal? eeew for all of the above. Ill stick to this and my trance music... oh and ost.. lol

  • the beginning is adorable

    

  • So what are you doing here may I ask? YouTube is big enough for all of us my friend. At least I appreciate your honesty mate, fresh change from all the haters going around.

  • i dont like classic

  • Here is something i realized. These people Beethoven,Mozart, they will always be remembered through the history of music. Stupid modern music like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber will soon be forgot and replaced by something new. People now a days cannot learn how to actually appreciate music rather than just moving on from one music to another. People should learn how to appreciate one type of music.

  • To anyone who as played the whole Sonata, you'll know the 2nd movement is the most challenging!

  • @mrpolaroid123 You're an idiot.

  • @WilltheTowelie Explain why please?

  • R.I.P., maestro.

  • 0:54 Awesome!

  • One shouldn't have favorites with movements. They're all of one piece; you take one away and you lose the work's power. The 2nd movement might be "slight" if compared to the first and third, but it's equally as important for the Moonlight.

  • I came here straight from a Whacka Flocka thing that my friend made me listen to. I don't think I can describe it. Maybe ice on a wound? Times infinity?

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  • @Acts123456789 Then why do you say it?

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  • @Acts123456789 So what? I have been playing since I was four, but if you don't have videos of yourself; only you yourself care about your accomplishment, now people just get annoyed (I don't, but a LOT of people do) by it.

    If you upload some videos and contact me, I'll be sure to check them out though! :)

  • @Acts123456789 did they also abstain from the graduation exam for you like they did for wilhelm kempff at the berliner musikhochschule if you are such a brilliant pianist as you claim, as you "can play this as well as he can?"

  • @shenkeey He's called acts... novelty account? and he may just be parodying people who say stuff like that.

  • @66AngelOfDeath66 Don't think so, but if so..*clapclap* well done ^^

  • @Acts123456789 This person(Wilhelm Kempff) deserved being applouded after all the years he had been playing. So, play the piano, get highly respected by the mass audience and one day, there`s a chance that we`ll be clapping to your performance. :)

  • 53 people have no hearts

  • Can all of you stop mentioning Justin Bieber! Can I go any futsin video that doesn't mention Bieber all the damn time!! FUCK!!! Go spam about Bieber on 4chan or something.. -______________-

  • beethoven must be in his own happy place when he composed this song

  • I am learning the second movement on the piano right now, so this should be a help to me.

  • It's just not YouTube if someone doesn't mention Justin Bieber, poor little guy.

  • who cares what justin bieber thinks. that kid doesnt know what real music is.

  • @estarielevenstar Why wouldn't that be music? Just because you seem to have a purely biased and downright idiotic hatred for a celebrity artist, doesn't give you reason to discredit his work.

  • @N2Lucky If you are familiar with any technical terms in music you may realise that most of his songs are purely one progression of five chords repeated multiple times. His music is purely noise compared to beethoven and other famous artists of the past.

  • hey! your name is weird. Polopolopolololo

  • he is not even looking at the keyboard

  • @outsmartold9 Also know as a piano

  • @outsmartold9 a keyboard and a piano are both different things. What he is playing is a piano. What 80's popstars played is a keyboard. J/S.

  • @KodachiTheRaverBunny He's playing the piano, but the set of keys is known as the keyboard. Technically, outsmartold9 is correct.

  • He will be for ever to the history as one of the best piano players on the world and all you with the stupid commets will remember you NOBODY!

  • @mesasola Learn English.

  • It's beautiful... But the 3rd one is better.

  • lol, why did beethoven write this? It's boring! I prefer the 1st and 3rd, so much better. J.w..

  • Although this is personally my least favorite of the three movements of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and although I usually don't really like to listen to it, when it is played with this amount of skill and grace, and when it is played with the amount of passion Kempff pours into this piece, I really enjoy it. That's how good he is.

  • @MrSeanannersftw this man is a genius. with both parkinsons and alzheimers. AND can play this with what sounds like easy. if i can be 1 100th as good as him at some point in my life id be happy

  • @MrSeanannersftw imagine how beethoven thought of it in his mind when it is in perfect form

  • @MrSeanannersftw Saying you don't like this movement is like saying you don't like the final movement of Hammerklavier. This is Beethoven being himself, being himself very well.

  • @MrSeanannersftw It's strange that I was browsing the blog entries to see if there was anyone else, like me, who loved this very movement even more than the other two. Anyhow, tastes differ.  Best wishes !!

  • @MrSeanannersftw I agree. I like the 3rd movement though. but without the 2nd movement. The whole Moonlight Sonata would not be as epic as it was to be! :DD Keep listening to this music my brethren for we are the only ones who love what true music is!

  • @MrSeanannersftw Sounds like your standards are too high.

  • If you just look at his mouth, it makes a frown. Somehow, even though his face resembles this :( , you can still tell he's smiling in his heart. Amazing.

  • i feel as though Wilhelm remembered his entire life as he played Moonlight Sonata

  • Sólamente a una persona sorda no puede gustarle esto. A 50 personas no les gusta ??? Creo que no eran personas, teniendo sentimientos y oidos es suficiente para que esta sonata sea impactante y hermosa...

  • This song is like a flower between two chasms.

  • he could play blindfolded

  • @roseannastargirl Any pianist could play blindfolded.

  • @PhillyB702 He could play with his hands bound. :-)

  • love him! his is very good!

    

  • Thanks for posting this. This movement is not as popular. This Sonata has been played to death, unfortunately. I'm been trying to play the 1st movement for 20 years. This guy is awesome. When he plays, he takes you somewhere.  Everyone should listen to the entire performance. Masterful.

  • @balalaika3 You have been trying to play it for 20 years? Is it that hard for you? I'm interested in people trying to actually want to play it!

  • What a Wondrous Genius...He does not even have to look at the keys...The essence of exelsity & depth !

  • he likes looking up the ceiling.

  • Just perfect...

  • Fuck those 50 people they don't know what the hell they're talking about I have played piano for 10 years this music is beautiful. Great video:P

  • @Acts123456789

    well i haven't played piano but this music is true beauty! i've heard the 1st & 3rd mvt of this sonata (which is probably one of most famous of Beethoven, alongside with Fur Elise), but managed to go past this one %). truly great music!

  • @Acts123456789 i only been playing 4 a year i still like dis type of music bt this n the 1st n 3rd r yet so touching

  • Arthur Rubinstein once said that a live performance had to be something lively, something vivid. Thus mistakes may occur, but they dampen the listening experience in no way. It goes to show that perfection is not always the answer to a perfect performance.

  • I am more concerned about the 1,285,167 people who apparently were completely unaffected by this so to not like or dislike it...

  • @SDMSProductions ?....

  • @arnihockey do the math: x-a-b=my comment, where x=number of views, a=likes, b=dislikes, (I'm sure the numbers have changed since I made that comment...)

  • @SDMSProductions Maybe some people have watched this multiple times or aren't signed in. I my self have watched this at least 10 times

  • @KrazyKillar he's dead :(

  • STFU about the views and dislikes noobs

  • dislike is stubid

  • of the people that voted 0.016% did not like it cause their probably hipsters

  • 49 people failed the botton

  • 1,272,015 people wish they were as good as Wilhelm

  • I DO wish I was as good as Kempff. He was the best pianist of his time. I'd give many things to be able to play like him

  • 2974 people know what music is.

  • @Santosificationable

    then who was 53?

  • @Santosificationable What the heck does Justin Bieber have to do with this video? Why is he mentioned in every video...?

  • @NinhPianoAndArt Because he has been entitled the TeenageGirlIzerOfSeriousPurist­ClassicalOldPianists of the Year.

  • @Santosificationable thats cuz bieber's a fuc*ing nutjob

  • 49 people don't know what a piano is.

  • BEAUTIFUL. Thanks

  • The only thing I don't like about this video is that it's not in HD. Someone re-up for great justice !!

  • This is good but you should check him playing the 3rd movement damn

  • This is one of the few performances of this movement that I have heard that does NOT make me want to gouge my eyes out. This is played lightly and with liveliness - exactly what the music calls for. He could have used a little more rubato, but otherwise a very enjoyable performance.

  • I am playing all the correct notes, just not necessarily in the right order

  • It's nice to fins the 2nd movement. It seems as though everyone place the 1st or the 3rd.

  • BRILLANT IS NOT AN EASY PIECE OF MUSIC...HE ADDED A FEW NTES SO WHAT.......

  • @DoReMiFa78 shut up, an easy piece of music can be played very well

  • @xxyx88 now it's 49 lol, (I wasn't referring to me)

  • @xxyx88 49 now

  • @xxyx88 I'm sure a lot more than 48 people can't play piano.

  • @xxyx88 its 49 now.

  • @xxyx88 What does being able to play the piano have to do with appreciating Beethoven, I can't play the piano but I love classical music. What are you implying?

  • @xxyx88 - for some reason, your comment really tickled me - it was so....nonchalant :-D (I can play the piano, btw ;-)

  • @xxyx88 52 people now

  • @xxyx88 What you said means nothing, I can't play any instrument, not even the triangle, and I like this sonata... Don't need to know about music to like it... Same thing for cinema, or any art

  • 2:20 yeah I'm awesome...

  • He Kinda Looks Like Bill Murry.

  • Absolutely beautiful

  • Wow this man plays really well and without a sheet! Great senses sir!

  • Wow so much ppl are trying to find mistakes in his playing cause they are just jealous but he is awsome playing at such age, such piece AND WITHOUT SHEETS....he must be music god =D

  • @star123753 Lol, you know you don't need the sheet to play music. You need sheets only to learn it. If you need the sheet when you play pieces you 've learned, then there is a problem.

  • @taghazog no you didnt get what i mean that he is old and he have amazing memory i meant this LOL i dont play with sheets after i learn piece too XD....dont worry about me...NO PROBLEMS, HAPPY LIFE ^_^ "

  • Such a delightful change from the first movement. Then descending into frustration and ferocity in the third. Moonlight is genius. I wonder what Beethoven's composing process was with this. Did he spend a lot of time working on it or did it flow simply as his mood let it. Either way, genius.

  • @jointz999 at the time he was going deaf, eventually he had to be turned around at a concert to see that the audience was clapping, for not hearing them he started to cry.

  • @Oxydox Amigo cual es tu criterio musical? cuanto Beethoven has escuchado?? ;)

  • He's Happy!

    :D

  • If you can play as well as Wilhelm Kempff, then maybe you can complain about a few small mistakes, but if not, it's the pot calling the kettle black. I think that his renditions of all three movements are amazing! If I can ever play them like him, I would be content to play nothing else.

  • Honestly, I can't even hear these wrong notes that people keep pointing out.

  • wonderfull tecnic, wonderfull sound! and wonderfull song!

  • The best interpretation on here, hand's down. I don't care what you say this guy is a musical genius!!! I will not reply or indulge in informal comments. If you don't think this is great then you need to study up on music (In all of it's aspects) and then learn how to play it. If you can bring to light all of its perfections with your imperfections ... then you are still not as great as this man. And if you think otherwise... send me the link because I truly want to be proven wrong.

  • Franz Liszt described the second movement as "a flower between two chasms"

  • @dDavetheplugg: WORD!

  • who cares about mistakeS!!!!

  • Everyone thumbs up if you hate people who ask for thumbs up! Now you have to try and find and kill me! Muahahahahaha

  • He looks like Felipe Scolari, former Brazilian Soccer Team coach

  • Kempff didn't make any major mistakes. He had his own way of interpreting things, and that wasn't always the way the music was written, nor was it like anybody else performed it. If you listen to his other performances of the same work, you may be surprised to hear the same "mistakes". Artur Schnabel was somewhat the same way, as was Glenn Gould.

    As good as Maestro Kempff was, few people quibbled about the supposed errors. There doesn't seem to be a good reason to do so today, either.

  • Quien puede ser por dios el inadaptado social o el suficientemente descerebrado como para ponerle votos negativos?

  • id like to see somebody play the ENTIRE FUCKING THING

  • @mmball8 that was just sad.

  • Gooooodness this song is giving me trouble!!!! /:

  • 48 people missed the like button.

  • 48 ppl were so amazed by this performance especially at this age that they clicked on the dislike button

  • @19961125 that didnt even make sense?

  • hmph.... how meddlesome....

  • As a classically trained piano player, I appreciate the poster's name. I guess most don't get it.

  • @kinetikband Why what's his name mean?

  • Lots of spirited debate going on in here... well, I'm instrumentally retarded & wouldn't know an allegro from a bar of soap, but I know what I like.

    And I like ALL of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 14. (hits 'thumbs up' button for this video)

  • He puts his emotion into it, and you can tell. I'm not a musician, just someone who loves playing piano, so I guess I wouldn't really know...but just listening to it, I can somehow tell.

  • Please note that the man playing was at the age of 75. Some poeple were saying there was a mistake or two during his play. Of course the guy is playing without music sheet, he's playing with his heart and not like a machine and if I can still have that level of dexterity by the age of 75, then I will concider myself a super hero. Stop being jalous and instead of focusing on 1 bad note, please listen the 3121 other notes (no I didnt count). Grow up poeple, for you own sake.

    Please, thumbs up!

  • @Davetheplugg this seemed so promising until that stupid last line..

  • @AnaLioneye IKR!

  • @Davetheplugg Yeah, 48 jealous people have viewed this video.

  • @Davetheplugg and i'm pretty sure he suffered from Parkinsons disease

  • @Davetheplugg theres no playing with heart... thats bullcrap. when u play a song enough times you remember the movements of the fingers blindly.

  • @xDyonx or he can just hear it's sounds, you know those people that can hear one song and then play it without notes or anything, man I would love to have that gift!

  • @xDyonx well that is muscle memory, and if you didn't have that... you'd be a pretty bad musician.

    But at the same time, music without expression is like breathing without air. And in typical youtube style... I'd like you to stop being a keyboard warrior and post a video reply!

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  • @Davetheplugg You spelt people wrong XD I'm joking Some people can be so annoying when it comes to these things, why they say it I don't know!!!

  • @Davetheplugg

    "Please, thumb up!" destroyed everything. Noone will take you serious now.

  • @Davetheplugg Cool!

  • @Davetheplugg spoon

  • @Davetheplugg jealous people have a target, to be like him, or to have what he has or had in his life. These people are simply idiots....... he is not only perfect, he also has no mistakes.......

  • @Davetheplugg I agree! It is amazing to me that he doesn't even look at the keys either!

  • @Davetheplugg it takes a man to say that, well said

  • @Davetheplugg

    Thank you for putting, apparently uneducated, people straight. Could´n have said it better.

  • @Davetheplugg rly? I have found no other version played by a human on youtube, that was this good. Kempff is the only one capable of playing Beethoven's stuff at the moment (feel free to correct me here). People underestimate the difficulty. Kempff's 3rd movement is awesome!

    Yeah, you have my thumb up. You can have both my thumbs, too.

  • @Davetheplugg You could use a spelling lesson but I definitely agree with what you said nonetheless. Some people just can't sit back and appreciate beautiful music.

  • @Davetheplugg very true

  • @Davetheplugg Absolutely right!!!

  • @Davetheplugg Maybe an interesting side note: He suffered from both Parkinson and Alzheimer's.

  • @T42nk dang

  • @T42nk True, but he died with 96 years old... in 1991. He's some god