subtitle: Piano - Moonlight Sonata (view from the sky 2), Acrylic on Canvas, 36"x52" (2006)
(to be continued)

Background Music:
"Moonlight Sonata" No.14 Op. 27 No.2 in C sharp minor: Adagio sostenuto
Ludwig van Beethoven
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In a summer night,
the sleepless owel and bats were awake.
The lake surface was sleeping as quiet as a mirror
reflecting the moonlight and the stary sky.

Awaken by a tiny stone
intruding into the heart of the water
thrown by a man who was having a walk,
there are a series of ripples
when the stone jumped on the water surface
and ended up in a water splash.

I was flying in the sky,
listening to the Sonata
in this lively silent night.

Note:
After the brainstorming and the drafts of my imagination of the above picture, I met this musical piece which was suggested by a good friend and added it to my paintings as the additional element. More interestingly ,the environment of the poet mentioned below was so matched with my painting!

Reference of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

The Moonlight Sonata was composed in the summer of 1801 in Hungary, on an estate belonging to the Brunswick family. The composition was published in 1802 and was dedicated to Beethoven's pupil and passion, 17 years old Countess Giulietta Gucciardi.

The Sonata is one of the most popular piano sonatas from Beethoven's creation. It is also named The Moonlight Sonata by poet Ludwig Rellstab who, in 1832, had this inspiration on a moon lit night on the banks of the Lucerna River. Some biographers make the connection between the unshared love the composer held for Giulietta Guicciardi and the sonorities of the first part. Even more so, this sonata was dedicated to Giulietta, the musical theme of the first part being borrowed from a German ballad as Wyzewa observed.

According to Fischer, this image has no connection with Beethoven's intentions. He rather attributes this atmosphere to the feeling that overwhelmed the composer when he took watch at the side of a friend who prematurely left the world of the living. In one of Beethoven manuscripts there are several notes from Mozart Don Juan, notes that follow the killing of the Commander by Don Juan, and lower, this passage is rendered in C sharp minor in absolute resemblance to the first part of the sonata in C sharp minor. Analyzing and comparing, one could realize that it cannot be the case of a romantic moon lit night, but rather of a solemn funeral hymn.

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