A Comprehensive Guide to Playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement - Presto Agitato

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This is an interpretation guide/analysis of techniques for Beethoven's Sonata in C# minor, 3rd movement - Presto Agitato. I go over everything from specific touches to emotions in different sections to different playing techniques and pedaling found in my playing in this absolute whopper of an episode.

If you're learning this piece, this will be super helpful for you. Just a quick note though, this is NOT a learn-how-to-play-the-notes type of tutorial. This is an interpretation analysis for AFTER you learn how to play the notes.

In short, this is the musicality aspect, which is what those other tutorials don't teach you. And of course, this is just how I do it, so feel free to take what you like and disregard what you don't (kinda like a masterclass)!

So buckle up, and let's get into some Moonlight Sonata!

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Tempo, Touch, and Personal Interpretation: 3:24
Analysis: 7:15
Sections (according to the score as makes sense to me):
Main theme (m. 1): 7:57
Second subject (melodic section) (m. 21): 19:55
Staccato section (m. 43): 30:54
Repeat (m. 1): 39:45
After Repeat (m. 65): 43:39
Recapitulation (m. 102): 54:59
Second staccato section (m. 137): 58:14
Coda (m. 159): 1:01:59
Cadenza (m. 177): 1:11:35
Ending (m. 190): 1:16:54
Outro: 1:19:54

Daniel Barenboim on the Moonlight Sonata:


Score I'm using (affiliate link):
Edition Peters: Beethoven: Sonatas - Volume 1


Other performances referenced (you'll have to jump a bit in each one to get to the movement):
Claudio Arrau:
Daniel Barenboim:
Valentina Lisitsa:

It's interesting to hear what things that I talk about show up in each of these and which they don't use.

Still figuring out camera autofocus, so this time it was a bit soft on some shots, but still lots better, so please keep sticking it out with me!

Yeah, next time I'll be more proactive and split things like this up into episodes, but for now, I hope you enjoy even just parts of my analysis and interpretation of Beethoven's famous piece!

Work/Piece:
Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 in C# minor, Presto Agitato by Beethoven

Performance:
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