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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western music. It has divided into three sections: exposition, development and recapitulation. In sonata form, the composer creates a tension, or drama, between those sections, and the sections react and interact to each other.
Beethoven composed this famous Moonlight Sonata in 1801 and dedicated it to Giulietta Guicciardi, a pupil of Beethoven. Shortly after their first few lessons, they fell in love. After dedicating the Moonlight Sonata, it is believed that Beethoven proposed to her. Although she was willing to accept Beethoven’s proposal, she was forbidden by one of her parents, and sadly, they never did.
The title Moonlight Sonata actually didn’t come until several years after Beethoven’s death. We know this piece as the “Moonlight Sonata” because in 1832 a German musician wrote that it reminded him of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.