Beethoven, Ludwig van - Moonlight Sonata
Sheet music for Violin Duet

Score Transpositions
(all shown in Concert Pitch)
E major
F major
F# major
G major
Ab major
A major
Bb major
B major
C major
C# major
D major
Eb major
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About 'Moonlight Sonata'

Artist:

Ludwig van Beethoven (

biography)

Born:

15/16 December 1770 , Bonn

Died:

26 March 1827 , Vienna

The Artist:

One of the greatest and most radical composers of all time. A tormented genius, who went deaf in later life and never heard his final works. His nine symphones are probably his greatest achievement, each one an unrivalved masterpiece, but he also wrote 5 piano concertos, piano sonatas, string quartets and one opera, Fidelio.

Composed:

1801

Info:

The first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 'Quasi una fantasia' in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 2, 'Moonlight' is one of the most popular piano pieces ever written. The sonata got its name when poet Ludwig Rellstab described the music as being 'like moonlight shining on a lake' in 1832.

Score Key:

F# minor (Sounding Pitch) (

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Tempo Marking:

=60