Andras Schiff's lecture on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Audio of Andras Schiff's lecture on Beethoven's Sonata No 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op 27 No 2 - Moonlight

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[PizzatheHutt78]

i wish this guy would fuck off, he never gets to the point and he forces his interpretation on me as if he was god.

Take your pigeon english and suck my dick

[LVB1770]

PizzatheHutt78, I don't really know why but I find your statement extremely

funny! Thanks for making me laugh my ass off!! To get a good laugh go to

Google images type in Baby Huey, then Andras Schiff & compare pictures!

[bboymango]

which sonata was he talking about , the "revolutionary sonata: that people should play more often?"

just wonderign

[LVB1770]

bboymango,

What?

[madlovba2]

I like both his interpretaion of the first movement and the slower ones too (like Wilhelm Kempff). This sonata is flexible; there are infinite ways to play it "perfectly".

[chrish12345]

@EliasJordan3 sorry if this has been answered already - its the funeral march from op.26 (third movement)

[EMPERORMIKI]

@bboymango I think he was talking about the first sonata of the set, Op. 27 No. 1, as he refers to the moonlight as the "sister work". Personally I've always liked Op. 27 No. 1 ever since I first heard it, you should give it a listen.

[EliasJordan3]

What is he playing at 08:18?

[revilo178]

@throwscats so are you saying that we should not bother to inquire what the composer intended or are you just correcting the exaggerations of my post?

[throwscats]

@revilo178 Furthermore, Beethoven is not necessarily better than you. I think it's actually valid to think that maybe your idea is better than Beethoven's. Overall, Beethoven is probably a superior composer to you, but that doesn't mean everything he thought is the will of God. Like everyone else, he's not perfect and you might think of something better than him.

Either way, it's almost irrelevent. He's dead, now, so at best we have educated guesses as to what he thought.

[throwscats]

@revilo178 I think this is off base. Music if meant to be living, breathing, changeable. If I recall, correctly, Beethoven himself told a student something to the effect of, "That is not exactly how I would've read it, but even so, perhaps it is something better than myself." There are multiple ways to interpret a piece, often times, and even within the boundries of what's on the page. Composers, themselves might interpret their own work several ways--so which is "correct"?

[losinggrip1993]

Brilliant lecture. Nice to see somebody clearing up the whole 'Moonlight' issue. Although,on a technical level, what he's says about the tempo is correct - as it's cut common time. However, tempo has got to be one of the most ambiguous things in music. When I tried playing the movement through at that tempo, it didn't feel right. So I'll always play it slower than this. If a composer marks a piece with "Adagio" - that can mean a lot of things - tempo is down to interpretation IMO.

[cangjie12]

@LVB1770 i just did that! it's hilarious! :D