Beethoven "Moonlight" Sonata, III "Presto Agitato" Valentina Lisitsa

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Cites Caters · 2019-01 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Advice on arranging piano music for wind quartet?”

I am arranging the Moonlight Sonata for woodwind quartet. The adagio and the minuet are simple enough to transcribe note for note. But the presto, that is hard. I mean there are super fast arpeggios and alberti bass in there. I realize I won't get all the notes in just a woodwind quartet. I would need an orchestra to be able to transcribe all the notes. But how can I go from something like this: a piano solo performance of the 3rd movement, to something for woodwind quartet? What about the notes below the bassoon's range, should I raise the whole bassoon part up an octave? How should I go about the super fast arpeggios? I really need some help transcribing this presto movement. I have been t

Cites guest · 2019-08 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Can a well regulated piano be incompatible with a sufficiently fast/soft song?”

There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to play the Clementi on any piano that "works" at all. Clementi was Italian by birth, and Presto in Italian just means "fast". It doesn't mean "the fastest speed that you can just about play the notes without crashing out." In fact Mozart made the put-down comment that "Clementi is a charlatan, like all Italians. He marks a piece presto but plays only allegro." It wasn't a kind thing to say, but there is some truth in it! If you find playing the sonata hard work, the reason may be that you aren't using the correct technique. In particular you are trying to play everything with your fingers only, instead of using forearm rotation to bring the big m

Cites brimosimo · 2020-04 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement tied notes”

I‘m currently playing the 3rd Movement of Moonlight Sonata and noticed myself always hitting the last note in Measure 22 (f##) even though it is a tied note. I never thought about not playing it, because every performer I have seen/heard playing this piece always played this note as well. Thus my ears were used to hear it and so I automatically played it without thinking. Now the question is, how am I supposed to know when to play the tie, and when to actually play the note, even though the notation tells me not to do it. There is actually an indication in Measure 23 which tells me to use the thumb to play the g#, therefore one could conclude, that the note has to be played even though it is