Moonlight Sonata

1. A sonata for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven . An early commentator remarked that the tranquil first movement reminded him of moonlight on the waves.

Example Sentences

She glided into the melancholy arpeggios of the Moonlight Sonata, without looking up from the keys.

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Then she began, so low as scarcely to be audible, the first movement of the wonderful "Moonlight Sonata."

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Such anatomical intimacy with the piano would destroy for me the bewitchment of the Moonlight Sonata.

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The final movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" was to him the highest interpretation of humanity's yearning for deliverance.

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Let us examine this description of the "Moonlight Sonata" more closely.

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