Rellstab met Beethoven in 1825, making it theoretically possible for Beethoven to have known of the moonlight comparison, though the nickname may not have arisen until later.īy the late 1830s, the name " Mondscheinsonate" was being used in German publications and "Moonlight Sonata" in English publications. In fact Rellstab made his comment about the sonata's first movement in a story called Theodor that he published in 1824: "The lake reposes in twilit moon-shimmer, muffled waves strike the dark shore gloomy wooded mountains rise and close off the holy place from the world ghostly swans glide with whispering rustles on the tide, and an Aeolian harp sends down mysterious tones of lovelorn yearning from the ruins." Rellstab made no mention of Lake Lucerne, which seems to have been Lenz's own addition.
The soubriquet Mondscheinsonate, which twenty years ago made connoisseurs cry out in Germany, has no other origin." Taken literally, "twenty years" would mean the nickname had to have started after Beethoven's death. This comes from the musicologist Wilhelm Lenz, who wrote in 1852: "Rellstab compares this work to a boat, visiting, by moonlight, the remote parts of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Many sources say that the nickname Moonlight Sonata arose after the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. "The subtitle reminds listeners that the piece, although technically a sonata, is suggestive of a free-flowing, improvised fantasia." Grove Music Online translates the Italian title as " sonata in the manner of a fantasy". The first edition of the score is headed Sonata quasi una fantasia ("sonata almost a fantasy"), the same title as that of its companion piece, Op. Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata in his early thirties, after he had finished with some commissioned work there is no evidence that he was commissioned to write this sonata. The piece is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano, and it was a popular favourite even in his own day. The popular name Moonlight Sonata ( German: Mondscheinsonate) goes back to a critic's remark after Beethoven's death. It was completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil Countess Julie "Giulietta" Guicciardi. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op.
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