![]() ![]() "This is the goal of the Beethovenfest: to play everything in different variations to show the immense richness of music history up to the present day," explains Wagner. 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." "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." ETERNAL SONATA OST UNBALANCED SERIESThe 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. Painter Caspar David Friedrich captured the moon's romance in "Two Men Contemplating the Moon" ![]()
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