![]() ![]() Renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard will play it on a modern grand piano, while Dutch musician Ronald Brautigam will perform it on a fortepiano, similar to how it would have sounded in Beethoven's day.Ī version of the sonata for horn and piano composed by Giselher Klebe in the 1950s will also be performed. Several different variations of the piece will be performed during the Beethovenfest. It was only a few years after Beethoven's death that the poet and music critic Ludwig Rellstab likened the first movement of the sonata with the moon shining on a lake, and thus coined the title "Moonlight Sonata." Read more: How to celebrate Beethoven? The festival named after him shows the way Beethovenfest director Nike Wagner Image: picture-alliance/dpa/O. "This first Adagio of the 'Moonlight Sonata' is imprinted in the memory of the whole world, and it is a beautiful movement that has a lot of dreamy, romantic egoism within it," the festival director said. Normally, a sonata begins with a fast movement, but in this piece, Beethoven chose a more leisurely tempo for the start. "He called it 'Quasi Una Fantasia' because he reversed the traditional sequences of movements." "Beethoven didn't call it that himself," explained Wagner. With its melancholic character, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is regarded as a forerunner of musical romanticism. "Two of our events have a satirical approach to the old dream of landing on the moon," pointed out the Beethovenfest director. "But we're even more interested by how moonlight is reflected and experienced in art - and there are extremely strong examples of this in music." ![]() The series of compositions "Night on Bald Mountain" by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky evokes images of witches gathering under the moonlight, while painter Caspar David Friedrich captured the romantic magic of the moon in his famous painting from 1819, "Two Men Contemplating the Moon." From romantic transfiguration in the moonlight to frightening demons who appear on the dark side, the moon is often artistically portrayed as having has two faces. There have also been numerous artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers who have taken up the theme of the moon in their work. In 1609, Galileo Galilei is said to have recognized the uneven surface of the moon for the first time through his telescope. In Christian iconography, it adorns images of Mary and represents salvation and divinity. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, the moon was a symbol of power. ![]() Mankind's fascination with the moon dates back centuries. Read more: From Scorpions to Beethoven: Ursula von der Leyen's playlist for the army Painter Caspar David Friedrich captured the moon's romance in "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" Image: Gemeinfrei Everybody connects the 'Moonlight Sonata' with Beethoven."īonn's Beethovenfest takes place from September 6 to 29 and includes performances of Beethoven's music, as well as the works of many other famed composers. "You can look up the 'Moonlight Sonata' on the internet and there are millions of clicks. "The moon is in fashion right now," she told DW. ![]() According to Wagner, it also fits into a current trend. 14, also known as the "Moonlight Sonata," which has remained popular for centuries. The theme is taken from Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. Although the director of the Bonn Beethovenfest, Nike Wagner, didn't think of the 50th anniversary year of the moon landing when she chose "Moonlight" as this year's festival theme, it is certainly appropriate. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," Neil Armstrong famously said when he landed on the moon in July, 1969. ![]()
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