This is Movement 1 from Ludwig Van Beetoven's famous Moonlight Sonata. The picture is of a full moon shining on a lake. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy.
Played at my premature baby daughter's funeral in 1975. Today would have been her birthday. Praying to see you in Heaven someday. Daddy still loves and misses you.
Forgive the somewhat immature allusion but, recalling X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the story of the one whom gathers flowers for the moon told therein, mournful howl mixed at the end of this movement would fit quite well.
One would imagine rather sad, artists are their own worst critics and no doubt this genius could have found a way of improving this... even though it definitely doesn’t need it.
.. what a great comment. Made me think of Stevie Wonder, such visual wonders await that other musical genius one day (not yet tho!) We all understandably take our 5 senses for granted so moments like this remind me of that .. I am grateful to be able to hear music as well as see our beautiful little blue planet.
stfu and appreciate artists that are beyond talented. have some dumbass rapper to rap while deaf and it would sound exactly the same. at least this is real talent. beyond talent. rappers can't even play instruments they have computers for that
I agree, it's definitely God given talent. There are many of classical composers who wrote their pieces with God in mind specifically, for example, Bach.
No classical piece of music has a chilling ambience like this one, makes me reflect on the positive and negative's of my life, both past and present. makes me feel human.
+Jim Atherton You don't think it's simple. It's basically a long series of three-tone harmonies, with hardly any other layering. But the structure and order of the harmonies is what makes it special. But I wouldn't call it complex.
+DrDress i'm sorry i don't speak english very well so my answer will be in french. Please take time to translate because it's important for me to give you the explanation and for you to know. i think :) la composition est peut-être simple mais ce qui fait la complexité de ce morceau c'est parvenir à nuancer, ne pas jouer trop fort l'accompagnement . il faut savoir que le thème principale est joué soit avec l'index soit le mineur et donc il est plus difficile de faire tenir un thème avec ces doigtés. le thème doit résonné ne pas se laisser embrouyer par l'accompagnement. Ensuite il y a la tenue : tout le monde ne peut pas jouer ce morceau car l'écart des notes à la mains gauche ( accords )et pour la main droite avec les harmoniques, est assez grand, pour des petites mains c'est un coup à se faire une tendinite . tout cela dans la retenue voilà en quoi ce morceau est compliqué.
Music shapes silence. And the "Moonlight Sonata" uses silence as a tool to build a space around the listener, making him or her a part of the experience. Beautiful
Speak not of yesterday, think not of tomorrow, for only now exists, watch as swirling leaves catch the wind and fall. The exquisite beauty of the rose diminishes as the petals wither and die. The beautiful morning sunrise soon overtaken and swallowed by the ultimate and endless darkness. Trying to catch water between your hands and watch it flow between your fingers lost to the ground. Our lives are rapidly spent as we idly watch and wonder what is to be, what is to come, so you see, we shall never know.
When I was in daycare, during naptime, this song would be playing. While everyone slept, I was listening. It usually gave off a sad vibe. I would silently cry because 4 year old me didn't really know how else to react to a vibe of sadness. Now that I'm listening to it once again after 9 years, the only reason why I'm crying to this is because of how beautiful it is.
my mom used to play this and Claire de lune for me all the time. ever since she died i can't listen to this without crying but these songs are all I have to feel close to her again. I swear this one plays the way I feel without her though. angry and heartbroken all at once.
Fucking spectacular. The underlying tones of positivity shadowed by the main melody that's so dark is amazing. When that third measure hits in the main theme of the song and then goes back to its normal minor key it just gets me.
+Richard Youngs I get your point. But on the other hand, good pianist can make a piano sing. And make a piano piece a song without words (like Mendelssohn did)
I listen to this song whenever I need a moment to think about life. I wanna make people happy, this beautiful piece of music for some reason gives me inspiration.
Music that will continue to last the passage of time. So elegant and hauntingly beautiful. It makes me feel like I am sitting in the candlelit living room surrounded by a fireplace and old paintings on the wall. It is after midnight and I just ponder life while occasionally looking out the window to see an empty cobblestone street and the glow of the moonlight.
When I listen to this, it reminded me of a woman that I truly loved. I knew her, grew up with her, helped her when she needed it. I fell in love with her, but I could never tell her because she loved another. This feeling of unrequited love was the worst feeling I have ever had, but I stayed quiet. I never said a word, only because I wanted to see her happy.
Then don't make the same mistake that I did. Show her that you truly care for her and want nothing more than to be there for her. Tell her before it's too late for either of you.
I can relate in some way today I was told to give up on a girl I like because she doesn't even notice I like her I mean she knows I like her but she has another and what's worst is before I went on Christmas trip to see family I asked her if she would want to go out sometime she said yes but by the time I got back from the trip and was ready to ask her if she remembers that I asked her out I found out she had a boyfriend and its hard giving up on someone you love
It's beautiful, but it's so haunting. Most classical music, you listen, you absorb it with your mind and it makes you feel good. When I listen to this, I feel like I'm absorbing it with my body, like it almost seeps into me and crawls under my skin. But in the best possible way.
absolutely. you can almost feel what he felt for 6 minuets. absolute torment yet beauty. the element of long lost desire to a point. my fav song all the same. the first song i tried to learn on the piano. no matter how often i hear it (like many pieces of 'real' music) it never tires. it almost opens up even more. see even more of beethoven's character. a haunted man.
WOW...I´m not a native english speaker so I thought the whole time about how to put my feelings into words and then I read your comment...! You describe my own feeling about this song so clearly! Thank you very much!
Yeeees, let the flow of the piano SINK into your soul and it will WAKE your INNER INHABITANT! Let your skin DEVOUR the notes and CONTROL your VESSEL! The feeling is DELIGHTFUL! DELETE anyone who RESISTS the flow!
Actually, in this piece he still had some hearing left. He wrote this song wanting to propose to his pupil Giulietta, with the mind set of her accepting.
@@theskyfoogle1511 Well when beethoven wrote the song its to be believed that she would be inclined to accept because her mother was in favor of the marriage however her father disagreed saying she needed to marry someone of class and money so she ended up marrying some ballet and music composer
Only true genius, such as Beethoven, can take what they feel deep in their souls and express it in a beautiful perfect composition as this. A master at work.
The darkness of hearts, Falls out, rips the wind into pieces as it comes home. There is no hope, Suffering is inevitable, despair is your only companion. Trudging always so lightly, for even walking on clouds, A god can make rain, his tears creates floods. Emptiness is the only absolute of no hatred, of no pain. Shift your hearts to the cold, let it freeze and release the pain, Come home, my children, come home. For the darkness is the only thing that can comfort happiness.
I can see this as a depiction, of dancing in the ballroom, waltzing out into the balcony where moonlight shuns and glimmer, the waves calm, but everything is sad, the realization that you can't be one who gets that glimmer off the moon on to the ocean,or the shine of the moon itself, but you see your partner had left and in your eyes everything burns, blue fire and you walk towards it, because you wanted to be _aflame_ and _burn_ *bright*
@@daisiegarcia5349 Thank you, I wanted to be a writer at a young age but realized in a world like this that something can be taken away very quickly. Such as a idea. The orgin of something. So I plan on being a Nurse. I get free college and what not so yeah. Thank you.
This is like a plot for a ghost romance story. Tragic lovers doomed to dance in the sad moonlight for eternity until the curse placed upon them is lifted.
"Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality. We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility - We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess - in the Ring - We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain - We passed the Setting Sun - Or rather - He passed Us - The Dews drew quivering and Chill - For only Gossamer, my Gown - My Tippet - only Tulle - We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground - The Roof was scarcely visible - The Cornice - in the Ground - Since then - 'tis Centuries - and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity -" Emily Dickinson
+Dakota Borrowdale Me too. I was just thinking that, then saw your comment. Wanna save money and just combine our funerals? Two birds, one stone... am i right?
+Brett Anderson i would say make that 5, i think have 2 Brett's would be weird don't ya think? and to make matters a little weirder, i have anderson-sharp as my last name. how on earth could they know which Brett? am i rite?
I remember listening to this video over 10 years ago and I still come back to listen to it. Moonlight Sonata is my favorite piece of classical music. I find the First Movement to be relaxing and peaceful, the Second Movement to be joyful, and the Third Movement filled with persistence and determination. This is my interpretation of what I feel when I listen to Moonlight Sonata. Thank you for posting this video on CZcams and leaving it for all these years!
beautiful. i'm practicing this after decades of not looking at it. i decided to listen in order to get those hard to remember parts. just love this piece. can't believe as a young girl i once had this mastered. hope to do so again at this age of 65.
***** Shut the hell up. That was an ignorant comment. Just because you're a guy who gets a bit teary-eyed over music, doesn't mean you're gay. 'Gay', or homosexual, can only happen to you if you've had sex with the same gender. Otherwise, if you just felt feelings for the same gender as you, then it's not for sure. Not crying over music, wearing pink, having long hair, etc. it doesn't make you gay, dumb ass.
Only if the people of my grade would understand the complexity and beauty of this type of music life would be so much easier for me. It sucks getting picked on because of the music I like. People dont realize this was the first music around
Keep being yourself! You can appreciate the finer things in life and people that don't have that gift make fun of what they don't understand. Someday you will be out of there and all those people that picked on you will be nobodies haha.
They don't realize it because it's not, and believe me, this sonata is not as complex as you think it is. Pretty simple actually, but still enjoyable. How about you start learning piano so you can discover some pretty rad stuff? The piano literature is vast and rich with diversity!
Hi, Ashley, I am guessing that this is new for you, and if so are you ever the lucky one. This is one of the most overplayed and misunderstood pieces in the literature, and nobody has words to describe it, only approximations. It is no joke. I personally don't find it "dead and calm," but I can easily imagine it being heard this way. To me, it is deceptively simple and unquestionably sad. But beauty itself can be mistaken for sadness, since it so deeply moves us. This work needs to be decoded, and the key is that it is an abstraction on a piano of an aria and accompaniment. Knowing which part is which is critical to playing it effectively, in order get it beyond a succession of beautiful chords to its full content and intent. Amateurs and enough professionals miss this, are too cautious with it, making the sounds tediously homogenous. The repeated notes in so many of the three note accompaniment groups have to be played bravely, accented. The dotted 16th note in the melody is extremely difficult to pull off against the gravitational pull of the triplet accompaniment groups, but doing so makes the piece. Listen for these details, and see which pianist "gets it,' which ones don't. Keep your ears innocent with this one, and you may join the happy few who really understand it. You are invited by Beethoven to be alive when you hear it. It's name was not even his.
Bella Boo That was a little rude. Nothing wrong with him offering his advice. Everyone has their own views and interpretations, and John Dinwiddie was simply stating his own, and so was Ashley Aguilera
***** I think music can be relatable for everyone, but not everyone can relate to it in the same way. The way we relate to music is unique; we can all relate, but not completely in the same ways :)
Beethoven meets a blind girl sitting at a piano and, stricken by her fate, he sits down himself at the piano and can suddenly feel the rays of moonlight coming in through the window and weaving themselves into the notes he is playing. He rushes home and writes down the "Moonlight Sonata." This was his way of telling the girl how the moon looked like.... True or false?
This song always puts visions of the interior of an old mansion in my head with dark finished wood paneling on the walls, dim lighting, and this can faintly be heard from a phonograph in one of the many rooms, possibly a study whose air is murky with the smoke from a cigar or pipe. I know this is random, but it's always the vision that comes to mind when I hear this beautiful piece.
Connor Welle Perhaps themselves, in a sequence of events that began with unrequited love, in a sense that that person would never see his loved one happy with him, and thus he cannot accept his misfortune.
This makes my feelings go nuts. I hear it, I'll play it... I just can't... i can't even describe the beauty of ,not only this piece but EVERY Beethoven's pieces. The elegancy.... Taking over my heart... The Beauty... oh, the beauty...
Learned something interesting a while back: the late Kobe Bryant was a fan of Beethoven and he taught himself how to play this piece from listening to it on a loop from his computer.
When i heared this song for the first time i cried....not because i was i was sad...because its beauty was so overwhelming i couldnt hold back the tears of joy :,)
To me, this is the good kind of melancholy - that comes from experience. It is peaceful, with just a touch of mystery and oh so beautiful, like the thoughts of an old man reflecting on a life well lived, preparing for the night ahead.
There's no accounting for people with a lack of taste.. or IMO, intelligence. If you don't like Beethoven you are lacking something substantial. I label you a luddite.
RIP Ludwig Van Beethoven (17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 His music NEVER dies 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹
i love mozart, bach, liszt, and chopin but beethoven is my favorite.... he was like a shooting star.. mercurial, tempestuous, and lived totally on his own terms.. his music moves me and haunts me like few classical pieces do... moonlight sonata is what i wake up to every morning.. its on my alarm clock... i just adore classical music and enjoy both beethoven and chopin both for their beautiful piano compositions..
Something I think people need to realise is that without Classical music you would not have the music of today. It is incredibly important to appreciate and respect Classical/Baroque etc. composers as they where the founders of modern music!
I haven’t listened to this in years. In high school I was having trouble sleeping and someone gave me a mix tape of instrumental music, mostly Beethoven. It really helped. This brings back pleasant memories.
At 14 years old I have play this song for 4 years over and over again on the piano and I just love how it sounds. This is an amazing piece and great piece of work.
I don't know if I'm the first brony to comment on this work. But its so reflective of the feelings of a certain princess of the night. As this music plays in my head, I am reminded of the tragedy of Luna turned to Nightmare Moon. Her attempted murder of her own sister. Her banishment. And finally her return and redemption. I feel it all in this song as though it were made for her. Simply beautiful.
So much perfection in this piece... in all of its movements. I'm glad to see people appreciate the magnitude of power Beethoven's work has. He truly was remarkable. So much power in his music, merely created by his very own perfected talent. Truly remarkable.
usually listen to heavier, faster music like Pantera and Iron Maiden. But every so often i stumble back to this.. and its amazing. if anyone has any recomendations similair in some fashion please link me.
+branden neves also try another beethoven piece fur elise... just as haunting as moonlight sonata in its beauty and sadness but does have some light moments..
It's incredible how Beethoven could cram so many different human emotions into such a short piece of music. Not only that, but the emotions it evokes simultaneously seem to contradict themselves. Loneliness and longing, anger and sadness, mixed with a nostalgic sort of joy.
Greatest piece ever composed... He apparently used to go on walks in the countryside and imagine what his surroundings would sound like (the flowers, the insects, the trees), and he would use these sounds in his work. Nikki young I think you are right that this piece was inspired by true love.. but not for a person, it was his love of all things beautiful in the world... Truly beautiful and this movement is my favorite... its overwhelms me with emotion I have never felt anywhere else.
This is a masterpiece from the notes started. It hits you in shock cause, if you love classical music like me. It tells a story Note to notes. I think of things that grown into adulthood and are achieve independence. I was 12 years old first time I heard this..
The children of today laugh at classical music, they say it's boring. They'd rather have a toneless singer with a machine that goes BOOM BOOM BOOM. What they fail to realise they lobe classical music wether they know it or not, all of there major motion pictures are scored with modern classical music and so are most TV shows. This is because the toneless singer with the machine that goes BOOM BOOM BOOM can't generate the emotional feelings that music played on real instruments can generate. In my view no one person has done more to remind people what modern day classical with it's links to the original period than John Williams. Truly the Beethoven or Mozart of the 20th century.
I am a high school senior, and pretty much all of my classmates love rock and roll and rap and the sort. I simply do not understand why, I love the emotional feeling that comes with classical music, and I do not even get a close similar feeling with other types of music.
I am sixteen years old and I can say for myself that love these masterpieces a hundred times more than modern style music. My friends laughed at me when they found out I had Beethoven on my smartphone, but they don't know what they are talking about. Sry for my poor english, I'm from Germany... ^^
Played at my premature baby daughter's funeral in 1975. Today would have been her birthday. Praying to see you in Heaven someday. Daddy still loves and misses you.
This song feels like falling in love with someone that will never love you back.
I agree.
Forgive the somewhat immature allusion but, recalling X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the story of the one whom gathers flowers for the moon told therein, mournful howl mixed at the end of this movement would fit quite well.
Exactly what goes through my mind when I play this piece each time.
Jazmyn...well described
That's literally why I'm here RN.... Lol
How did Beethoven react when he could finally hear his own music in heaven? One can only wonder...
One would imagine rather sad, artists are their own worst critics and no doubt this genius could have found a way of improving this... even though it definitely doesn’t need it.
@@Hollows1997 facts, when you’re great, you’re never satisfied.
He probably loved it. 😊
.. what a great comment.
Made me think of Stevie Wonder, such visual wonders await that other musical genius one day (not yet tho!)
We all understandably take our 5 senses for granted so moments like this remind me of that .. I am grateful to be able to hear music as well as see our beautiful little blue planet.
I went to a Halloween party in Vienna in 2000 that was held in the building he died in.
I drank so much I nearly joined him I think.
This is the cleanest and most professional sounding version I've found. This is my most favorite classical piece in the entire world. Thank you
yes and the tempo is just perfect i dont like it when they play anything too slow
Actually the tempo is slightly to fast, it should be about 50-60 bpm its being played at about 75 bpm
the 1st movement should be about 8 min. long
@@north4419 actually 6 minutes.
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You can hear the pain in Beethoven's heart through this music.
Yup
+David Morrison u can hear the pain he couldnt
+Diego Lopes That's deep.
+Natalia S. thats what he said
Pain of what?
This shit is fire. Cant wait for his new album to come out.
XD
stfu and appreciate artists that are beyond talented. have some dumbass rapper to rap while deaf and it would sound exactly the same. at least this is real talent. beyond talent. rappers can't even play instruments they have computers for that
+sirhc ivju I think him and Tupac will be doing a collabo.
And a single with Elvis and Mozart providing the hook.
+Dakota Borrowdale Lil Wayne plays guitar shut up
+Emerson McGregor that's because unlike most of the rap game today, lil Wayne is actually very talented
Only someone with a God given talent could have composed such a beautiful piece of music as this.
I agree, it's definitely God given talent. There are many of classical composers who wrote their pieces with God in mind specifically, for example, Bach.
@Ben Jones yeah a mind that God gave us
@Ben Jones wow, arrogance at the highest level 😂
No classical piece of music has a chilling ambience like this one, makes me reflect on the positive and negative's of my life, both past and present. makes me feel human.
They don't make much music like this anymore. What a masterpiece
So simple. So elegant. So captivating.
+DrDress Not simple
+Jim Atherton
You don't think it's simple. It's basically a long series of three-tone harmonies, with hardly any other layering.
But the structure and order of the harmonies is what makes it special. But I wouldn't call it complex.
+DrDress i'm sorry i don't speak english very well so my answer will be in french. Please take time to translate because it's important for me to give you the explanation and for you to know. i think :)
la composition est peut-être simple mais ce qui fait la complexité de ce morceau c'est parvenir à nuancer, ne pas jouer trop fort l'accompagnement . il faut savoir que le thème principale est joué soit avec l'index soit le mineur et donc il est plus difficile de faire tenir un thème avec ces doigtés. le thème doit résonné ne pas se laisser embrouyer par l'accompagnement.
Ensuite il y a la tenue : tout le monde ne peut pas jouer ce morceau car l'écart des notes à la mains gauche ( accords )et pour la main droite avec les harmoniques, est assez grand, pour des petites mains c'est un coup à se faire une tendinite .
tout cela dans la retenue voilà en quoi ce morceau est compliqué.
+charline g
Arg. My french is a bit rusty:
Mais je pense que nous somme accord
+DrDress :) thank you for reading me :)
Have à Good Day
Beethoven's music is so haunting and so beautiful. What can I say? He tears me up inside. God bless him.
every time i’m having a panic attack this song helps me calm down, i would also play this song to my grandmother (i still do)
Your cherished action is the meaning of life.
Music shapes silence. And the "Moonlight Sonata" uses silence as a tool to build a space around the listener, making him or her a part of the experience.
Beautiful
OH MY, did you make that up or is it a quote
Your comment almost made me cry it was so beautiful. Was it an original quote or lifted from somewhere else?
eddee lopez
Like a sir!
Epicgamer559 Sorry didn't reply! I made that up...it just makes sense to me...
Bob Puharic
it's alright, and that's cool!
Speak not of yesterday, think not of tomorrow, for only now exists, watch as swirling leaves catch the wind and fall. The exquisite beauty of the rose diminishes as the petals wither and die. The beautiful morning sunrise soon overtaken and swallowed by the ultimate and endless darkness. Trying to catch water between your hands and watch it flow between your fingers lost to the ground. Our lives are rapidly spent as we idly watch and wonder what is to be, what is to come, so you see, we shall never know.
A beautiful comment...I loved what you wrote...
Wow, that told s beatiful.
Beautiful 😊
When I was in daycare, during naptime, this song would be playing. While everyone slept, I was listening. It usually gave off a sad vibe. I would silently cry because 4 year old me didn't really know how else to react to a vibe of sadness. Now that I'm listening to it once again after 9 years, the only reason why I'm crying to this is because of how beautiful it is.
Wow! Good memory!!
i never get tired of hearing this.
Me too #we love it
same
mae eswards probably because is a masterpiece 👌
mae eswards + Absolutely well found : D
mae eswards Me neither. It's so beautiful. It's also one of my favourites.
my mom used to play this and Claire de lune for me all the time. ever since she died i can't listen to this without crying but these songs are all I have to feel close to her again. I swear this one plays the way I feel without her though. angry and heartbroken all at once.
+Rachel Baumgartner i imagined it for a second and it was too powerful
funny story
+Charlie Baker I feel sorry for people like you who troll the internet with the sole purpose of trying to bring others down.
+Turkee S she was an amazing pianist but I miss her every day. I keep her memory alive through the music she used to play and love ♡
Rachel Baumgartner and I pity pathetic people like you who share their story even do no one CARES ABOUT YOUR MUM! Everyones lost someone.
Fucking spectacular. The underlying tones of positivity shadowed by the main melody that's so dark is amazing. When that third measure hits in the main theme of the song and then goes back to its normal minor key it just gets me.
+EpicSauce12345 Who is singing?
+Richard Youngs I get your point. But on the other hand, good pianist can make a piano sing. And make a piano piece a song without words (like Mendelssohn did)
Gor Yes! Fantastic and thoughtful analysis of what moves you. I totally agree!
I listen to this song whenever I need a moment to think about life. I wanna make people happy, this beautiful piece of music for some reason gives me inspiration.
yup same
Jerome Miller same here
Jerome Miller Sooo beautiful!!!
Renee Cassandra your hot
I love it too...it inspires...it soothes and heals❤
Music that will continue to last the passage of time. So elegant and hauntingly beautiful. It makes me feel like I am sitting in the candlelit living room surrounded by a fireplace and old paintings on the wall. It is after midnight and I just ponder life while occasionally looking out the window to see an empty cobblestone street and the glow of the moonlight.
When I listen to this, it reminded me of a woman that I truly loved. I knew her, grew up with her, helped her when she needed it. I fell in love with her, but I could never tell her because she loved another. This feeling of unrequited love was the worst feeling I have ever had, but I stayed quiet. I never said a word, only because I wanted to see her happy.
Touching comment man
I feel you sooooo much... Wish I could find a few words to make you (and me...) feel better...
Then don't make the same mistake that I did. Show her that you truly care for her and want nothing more than to be there for her. Tell her before it's too late for either of you.
That's right!. Bob Listen to Zach. It will be horrible later to know you did not even try...
I can relate in some way today I was told to give up on a girl I like because she doesn't even notice I like her I mean she knows I like her but she has another and what's worst is before I went on Christmas trip to see family I asked her if she would want to go out sometime she said yes but by the time I got back from the trip and was ready to ask her if she remembers that I asked her out I found out she had a boyfriend and its hard giving up on someone you love
It's beautiful, but it's so haunting. Most classical music, you listen, you absorb it with your mind and it makes you feel good. When I listen to this, I feel like I'm absorbing it with my body, like it almost seeps into me and crawls under my skin. But in the best possible way.
I have exactly the same feeling.
absolutely. you can almost feel what he felt for 6 minuets. absolute torment yet beauty. the element of long lost desire to a point. my fav song all the same. the first song i tried to learn on the piano. no matter how often i hear it (like many pieces of 'real' music) it never tires. it almost opens up even more. see even more of beethoven's character. a haunted man.
WOW...I´m not a native english speaker so I thought the whole time about how to put my feelings into words and then I read your comment...! You describe my own feeling about this song so clearly! Thank you very much!
Not edgy enough, get out
Yeeees, let the flow of the piano SINK into your soul and it will WAKE your INNER INHABITANT! Let your skin DEVOUR the notes and CONTROL your VESSEL! The feeling is DELIGHTFUL! DELETE anyone who RESISTS the flow!
Just imagine. This man couldn't hear a thing. Amazing!
Actually, in this piece he still had some hearing left. He wrote this song wanting to propose to his pupil Giulietta, with the mind set of her accepting.
@@summers3569 I'm guessing she didn't
@@theskyfoogle1511 Well when beethoven wrote the song its to be believed that she would be inclined to accept because her mother was in favor of the marriage however her father disagreed saying she needed to marry someone of class and money so she ended up marrying some ballet and music composer
@@summers3569 You mean dead friend
He still had hearing when he made this, but his 9th symphony he was completely deaf
Only true genius, such as Beethoven, can take what they feel deep in their souls and express it in a beautiful perfect composition as this. A master at work.
The darkness of hearts,
Falls out, rips the wind into pieces as it comes home.
There is no hope,
Suffering is inevitable, despair is your only companion.
Trudging always so lightly, for even walking on clouds,
A god can make rain, his tears creates floods.
Emptiness is the only absolute of no hatred, of no pain.
Shift your hearts to the cold, let it freeze and release the pain,
Come home, my children, come home.
For the darkness is the only thing that can comfort happiness.
Hey can I borrow this poem for a story that I'm writing?
SillhouetteSonata
Yeah go ahead.
There IS hope because the Messiah has come. If you love God there is always hope.
Good poem tho
Great, this is completely beautiful
i want to slow dance with someone to this and be sad in the middle of the night
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I can see this as a depiction, of dancing in the ballroom, waltzing out into the balcony where moonlight shuns and glimmer, the waves calm, but everything is sad, the realization that you can't be one who gets that glimmer off the moon on to the ocean,or the shine of the moon itself, but you see your partner had left and in your eyes everything burns, blue fire and you walk towards it, because you wanted to be _aflame_ and _burn_ *bright*
c h i l l e d m e m e love what you just said ❤️❤️❤️
@@daisiegarcia5349 Thank you, I wanted to be a writer at a young age but realized in a world like this that something can be taken away very quickly. Such as a idea. The orgin of something. So I plan on being a Nurse. I get free college and what not so yeah. Thank you.
This is like a plot for a ghost romance story. Tragic lovers doomed to dance in the sad moonlight for eternity until the curse placed upon them is lifted.
this is probably the most beautiful bit of music I've ever heard still love it 18 years later
The best rendition I've heard on youtube.... the longing, yearning, pain and passion in those notes and melody is both sublime and horrifying.
Such melancholy. So much bittersweet-ness. This is one of those pieces that simply can't be matched in my mind.
"Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility -
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess - in the Ring -
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -
We passed the Setting Sun -
Or rather - He passed Us -
The Dews drew quivering and Chill -
For only Gossamer, my Gown -
My Tippet - only Tulle -
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground -
The Roof was scarcely visible -
The Cornice - in the Ground -
Since then - 'tis Centuries - and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity -" Emily Dickinson
You should write this without so much free spaces between the lines, it really ruins the reading
The carriage carried just ourselves and immortality....taught this to my students
Beethoven was a true musical prodigy. No other song conveys the emotions so deeply as Moonlight Sonata. Part 1 is always so hauntingly beautiful.
i always come here when my heart is broken....and it always helps
Do you have Facebook, Andreea? :)
How creepy lmao
First world problems
+Rick Lane and ew.
What an intelligent comment thread, truly reflective of this masterpiece song.
I want this played at my funeral
+Dakota Borrowdale Me too. I was just thinking that, then saw your comment.
Wanna save money and just combine our funerals? Two birds, one stone... am i right?
+Brett Anderson Lol make that three?
+Ivan Huerta naw man, make it 4
+Brett Anderson i would say make that 5, i think have 2 Brett's would be weird don't ya think? and to make matters a little weirder, i have anderson-sharp as my last name. how on earth could they know which Brett?
am i rite?
Definitely! Moonlight sonata for everyone
I remember listening to this video over 10 years ago and I still come back to listen to it. Moonlight Sonata is my favorite piece of classical music. I find the First Movement to be relaxing and peaceful, the Second Movement to be joyful, and the Third Movement filled with persistence and determination. This is my interpretation of what I feel when I listen to Moonlight Sonata. Thank you for posting this video on CZcams and leaving it for all these years!
One of the finest pieces of music ever written.
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I use to sleep with this when i was one (2012) so nostalgic im so happy i can play this now :)
This is my favorite piece
this is sonata
This sounds beautiful & menacing at the same time, like someone's going to jump on you from no where.
i agrwe
o yes daddy
beautiful. i'm practicing this after decades of not looking at it. i decided to listen in order to get those hard to remember parts. just love this piece. can't believe as a young girl i once had this mastered. hope to do so again at this age of 65.
Ah, classical music... It's nice to take a break from pop songs and to just sit and listen to this beautiful piece of music.
Who says classical music is boring ?
Thanks captain obvious
Anthony E The people who never listen to it!
Mr. Klunee
that's right.
Anthony E Nice profile picture, man.
this piece always makes me cry and i dont know why...
your icon makes this comment much better
im gay and i never cry. i just fucking hate the moon
***** Shut the hell up. That was an ignorant comment. Just because you're a guy who gets a bit teary-eyed over music, doesn't mean you're gay. 'Gay', or homosexual, can only happen to you if you've had sex with the same gender. Otherwise, if you just felt feelings for the same gender as you, then it's not for sure. Not crying over music, wearing pink, having long hair, etc. it doesn't make you gay, dumb ass.
fuck the moon
brendan from ohio Hey, whatever floats your boat.
It's so soothing but so dark at the same time. Beethoven, you are a master.
One of the most relaxing songs I’ve ever heard. I love this piano music.
Only if the people of my grade would understand the complexity and beauty of this type of music life would be so much easier for me. It sucks getting picked on because of the music I like. People dont realize this was the first music around
Keep being yourself! You can appreciate the finer things in life and people that don't have that gift make fun of what they don't understand. Someday you will be out of there and all those people that picked on you will be nobodies haha.
im the same i cant stand modern music
They don't realize it because it's not, and believe me, this sonata is not as complex as you think it is. Pretty simple actually, but still enjoyable. How about you start learning piano so you can discover some pretty rad stuff? The piano literature is vast and rich with diversity!
One day they'll realize what a special snowflake you are.
Milton James It is indeed pretty easy to play.
But to play it with the best expression possible is much harder...
This is so beautiful. Like you're dead and calm
Hi, Ashley, I am guessing that this is new for you, and if so are you ever the lucky one. This is one of the most overplayed and misunderstood pieces in the literature, and nobody has words to describe it, only approximations. It is no joke. I personally don't find it "dead and calm," but I can easily imagine it being heard this way.
To me, it is deceptively simple and unquestionably sad. But beauty itself can be mistaken for sadness, since it so deeply moves us.
This work needs to be decoded, and the key is that it is an abstraction on a piano of an aria and accompaniment. Knowing which part is which is critical to playing it effectively, in order get it beyond a succession of beautiful chords to its full content and intent.
Amateurs and enough professionals miss this, are too cautious with it, making the sounds tediously homogenous. The repeated notes in so many of the three note accompaniment groups have to be played bravely, accented. The dotted 16th note in the melody is extremely difficult to pull off against the gravitational pull of the triplet accompaniment groups, but doing so makes the piece.
Listen for these details, and see which pianist "gets it,' which ones don't.
Keep your ears innocent with this one, and you may join the happy few who really understand it. You are invited by Beethoven to be alive when you hear it. It's name was not even his.
John Dinwiddie Maybe it's because I'm depressed. I enjoy being sad so it's ok.
John Dinwiddie
I don't recall her asking for your opinion. Get over yourself.
Bella Boo That was a little rude. Nothing wrong with him offering his advice. Everyone has their own views and interpretations, and John Dinwiddie was simply stating his own, and so was Ashley Aguilera
***** I think music can be relatable for everyone, but not everyone can relate to it in the same way. The way we relate to music is unique; we can all relate, but not completely in the same ways :)
Beethoven meets a blind girl sitting at a piano and, stricken by her fate, he sits down himself at the piano and can suddenly feel the rays of moonlight coming in through the window and weaving themselves into the notes he is playing. He rushes home and writes down the "Moonlight Sonata." This was his way of telling the girl how the moon looked like....
True or false?
that's not true.
+The Amazing Pikachu I don't care if it is or not, I love the legend :)
+cary allen yeah. Sam here actually ^-^
+The Amazing Pikachu *Same
nah, that's some goofy bullshit, he's just a great composer who thought up some dope music
This sonata is a musical masterpiece.
This song always puts visions of the interior of an old mansion in my head with dark finished wood paneling on the walls, dim lighting, and this can faintly be heard from a phonograph in one of the many rooms, possibly a study whose air is murky with the smoke from a cigar or pipe. I know this is random, but it's always the vision that comes to mind when I hear this beautiful piece.
When I hear this I see darkness, despair and death.
I figure your vision is way better than mine.
When I hear this song, I get the image of someone being hung. I don't know why
Connor Welle Perhaps themselves, in a sequence of events that began with unrequited love, in a sense that that person would never see his loved one happy with him, and thus he cannot accept his misfortune.
I see children laughing and playing in the sun in a play park.
Then they all start coughing up blood and die horrifically.
Spencer Mansion
This is a beautiful piece of music.
Indeed. It's one of my favourites.
This makes my feelings go nuts. I hear it, I'll play it... I just can't... i can't even describe the beauty of ,not only this piece but EVERY Beethoven's pieces. The elegancy.... Taking over my heart... The Beauty... oh, the beauty...
Are you still a live 🌝
@@ia03 is that... molester moon?....
Agreed. I listen to at least one of his compositions every day (sometimes a half dozen or more!). ❤❤❤
Learned something interesting a while back: the late Kobe Bryant was a fan of Beethoven and he taught himself how to play this piece from listening to it on a loop from his computer.
yeah, but then you run the risk of it becoming bad because of the repetitivnes
Really?
@@kristilambert3416 yep
@@hpa2005 that's cool!!
Is this Kobe Bryant performing?
I freaking love Ludwig Van Beetoven
Who doesn't?😂
who is exactly *beetoven*
the best musician in the world
beetoven was a deaf man who was a genus who made beautiful music that formed his pain
Greatest ever
My dad has played this song on the Piano as long as I can remember. My favorite.
Not a single word, but yet a story capable of making a grown man weep has just been told.
Yes..yes..and yes
Ah a masterpiece it's a shame seeing these comments about people and depression I find it to be an enlightening song that always makes me feel great.
It is Beethoven after all.
When i heared this song for the first time i cried....not because i was i was sad...because its beauty was so overwhelming i couldnt hold back the tears of joy :,)
If this ain't playing at my funeral, I ain't going.
There is no pain or sorrow in the 1st Movement...it's Beethoven's thanks for the beauty that Our Maker has given us.
To me, this is the good kind of melancholy - that comes from experience. It is peaceful, with just a touch of mystery and oh so beautiful, like the thoughts of an old man reflecting on a life well lived, preparing for the night ahead.
This song describes the feeling I want my reader to have at the ending of a novel I'm writing 💁
Ya me to.
_metalman9_
Well I hope you use a spell checker then. "too" not "to".
Omg aha
***** No, no, no. To is correct.
After my crush said no to me my heart feels like this :(
Watching the Strawberry moon rising as I listen. last seen in 1967. Won't be seen again till 2062. Perfect. Beautiful.
Thanks for posting.
This is the first time ive thoroughly listened to this song in a long time, it'll never cease to amaze me. Every time i listen to it i get goosebumps
I love this song. It makes me feel at peace and its a great song to listen to before you go to sleep.
How can 420 people dislike this beautiful tune.
There's no accounting for people with a lack of taste.. or IMO, intelligence. If you don't like Beethoven you are lacking something substantial. I label you a luddite.
Can't think of a better song.
How this man was able to do the things he did in his lifetime is astounding. Viva la Beethoven.
My all-time favourite piece, so haunting, lamenting and dark. But has an undeniable undertow of hope.....
This went perfect in Resident Evil. Brilliant!
Mistaken as God Gaming BARRY WHERE'S BARRY
It only went perfect playing as Jill. Rebecca, not so much
It went perfect in Earthworm Jim 2 as well, which is how I first came across this piece as a kid
@@lesabre84 fck u i love rebecca ! it's also in operation racoon city
RIP Ludwig Van Beethoven (17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
His music NEVER dies 🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹
One of the most beautiful ,elegant pieces of music ever written.
You can hear the pain he was going through without lyrics it’s crazy
I’m in love with this piece. The sound of sadness, hope and more related emotions just thrown and mixed up into a beautiful piece of music.
Every conceivable emotion wrapped up in what I consider to be the most perfect six minutes of music ever written.
Why is the moon always so soothing and so healing to look at? Its so beautiful but yet sad. Maybe everything beautiful is a bit sad.
videos like these make even the comment section peaceful
i love mozart, bach, liszt, and chopin but beethoven is my favorite.... he was like a shooting star.. mercurial, tempestuous, and lived totally on his own terms.. his music moves me and haunts me like few classical pieces do... moonlight sonata is what i wake up to every morning.. its on my alarm clock... i just adore classical music and enjoy both beethoven and chopin both for their beautiful piano compositions..
Agree
Thanks for the memories
Something I think people need to realise is that without Classical music you would not have the music of today. It is incredibly important to appreciate and respect Classical/Baroque etc. composers as they where the founders of modern music!
I haven’t listened to this in years. In high school I was having trouble sleeping and someone gave me a mix tape of instrumental music, mostly Beethoven. It really helped. This brings back pleasant memories.
"A Masterpiece."🙏🏼🎹❣🌠🙌🏼
When I hear this I always think I can hear the sound of his heart breaking.
At 14 years old I have play this song for 4 years over and over again on the piano and I just love how it sounds. This is an amazing piece and great piece of work.
I don't know if I'm the first brony to comment on this work. But its so reflective of the feelings of a certain princess of the night. As this music plays in my head, I am reminded of the tragedy of Luna turned to Nightmare Moon. Her attempted murder of her own sister. Her banishment. And finally her return and redemption. I feel it all in this song as though it were made for her. Simply beautiful.
So much perfection in this piece... in all of its movements.
I'm glad to see people appreciate the magnitude of power Beethoven's work has. He truly was remarkable. So much power in his music, merely created by his very own perfected talent.
Truly remarkable.
+xMrRainbowUnicornx True true.
It would seem as though people are forgetting truly beautiful music...
Love this! He's one of my favorite composers!
Same here.
usually listen to heavier, faster music like Pantera and Iron Maiden. But every so often i stumble back to this.. and its amazing.
if anyone has any recomendations similair in some fashion please link me.
Tocatta and fugue in d minor by bach!
+Emma ashworth your a saint love.
+branden neves also try another beethoven piece fur elise... just as haunting as moonlight sonata in its beauty and sadness but does have some light moments..
Chopin op28 no20
***** HumpinGrannys Links me and ill listen to them all please.
It's incredible how Beethoven could cram so many different human emotions into such a short piece of music. Not only that, but the emotions it evokes simultaneously seem to contradict themselves. Loneliness and longing, anger and sadness, mixed with a nostalgic sort of joy.
Powerful stuff. Never gets old.
I know it does not this puts me in my world
Beethoven's mixtape is fire!!!
Roxer9000 🤣🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
When I listen to this, all I can think about is our world's inevitable destruction by human conflict.
this comment aged well lol, we're all gonna fuckin die
Ya aren't deep. Slink back into Reddit, peon.
Aren't you so cool for hating humans?
Thanks for spoiling the party.
The world won't end. Just humanity.
This made me cry today man I heard it on the way to school and it just hit me all at once later
"The picture is of a full moon shining on a lake."
Dang, I swore that was LA.
You can clearly see Hollywood located on the ripples on the right .
I was thinking, "You're kidding me, right?" So, I looked and it actually says that in the description. Wow.
+abcd efgh what are you guys talking about how can u see Hollywood?
+purpleparis2015 I was being sarcastic; no where in LA does such natural beauty exist.
+abcd efgh lol
Greatest piece ever composed... He apparently used to go on walks in the countryside and imagine what his surroundings would sound like (the flowers, the insects, the trees), and he would use these sounds in his work. Nikki young I think you are right that this piece was inspired by true love.. but not for a person, it was his love of all things beautiful in the world...
Truly beautiful and this movement is my favorite... its overwhelms me with emotion I have never felt anywhere else.
This song makes my heart ache, i just feel myself melt into it .... melancholy masterpiece.
I love this beautiful music! Beethoven was a brilliant composer, a genius.
This piece reminds me that true love will always have a tragic ending. Either through divorce or death. There can be no other outcome.
Wow! This new artist is pretty good! If he keeps up the good work, he may become a successful musician one day.
I sense sarcasm
***** I agree, definitely lose the piano if wants to succeed ;)
lol
Maybe do a collaboration with Justin? Miley? Yano some bigger names than this guy maybe?
ok now your just been silly
This is a masterpiece from the notes started. It hits you in shock cause, if you love classical music like me. It tells a story Note to notes. I think of things that grown into adulthood and are achieve independence. I was 12 years old first time I heard this..
who disliked this???? what's wrong with this beautiful piece?
they were so sad they missed the like button, only viable explanation
@@themaidenlesswretch7819 yess! Otherwise, they're out of their mind
They are psychopaths
The children of today laugh at classical music, they say it's boring. They'd rather have a toneless singer with a machine that goes BOOM BOOM BOOM. What they fail to realise they lobe classical music wether they know it or not, all of there major motion pictures are scored with modern classical music and so are most TV shows. This is because the toneless singer with the machine that goes BOOM BOOM BOOM can't generate the emotional feelings that music played on real instruments can generate.
In my view no one person has done more to remind people what modern day classical with it's links to the original period than John Williams. Truly the Beethoven or Mozart of the 20th century.
I know, it's sad what the world has come too. I feel like with every generation we become more inhuman.
I am a high school senior, and pretty much all of my classmates love rock and roll and rap and the sort. I simply do not understand why, I love the emotional feeling that comes with classical music, and I do not even get a close similar feeling with other types of music.
it is hard to be human after being marked. Vaccines have nanomachines that are activated by the DRUGS bought from Pharmacies.
I am sixteen years old and I can say for myself that love these masterpieces a hundred times more than modern style music. My friends laughed at me when they found out I had Beethoven on my smartphone, but they don't know what they are talking about.
Sry for my poor english, I'm from Germany... ^^
KekskruemelReloaded
No sign of "poor" in your english at all, completely correct.