BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, no. 2 Moonlight (by Valentina Lisitsa)

It is a funeral march; don t let those lulling triplets dissuade you. It is a funeral march. Just a short time before Beethoven wrote a letter addressed to his brothers, friends. In that letter he admitted that he had lost his hearing and the prognosis was dismal. He called the letter a testament, it can also be called a suicide note. He never sent out the letter but he poured his feeling out in his music.