Moonlight Sonata played by Philip Springer
The piece is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano, and it was a popular favorite even in his own day.Beethoven wrote the Moonlight Sonata in his early thirties,
The name Moonlight Sonata comes from remarks made by the German music critic and poet Ludwig Rellstab. In 1832, five years after Beethoven's death, Rellstab likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. Within ten years, the name "Moonlight Sonata" ("Mondscheinsonate" in German) was being used in German and English publications. Later in the nineteenth century, the sonata was universally known by that name.