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They didn’t have Apple Music so it’s not like people are slapping that joint everywhere you go. You’re most likely sitting candlelight and wondering what toothpaste is.
Unpopular opinion, but *Moonlight Sonata* is 10× better on a harpsichord than a piano.
If you were rich or noble, you could cry in the seats of the symphony. For the not-so-rich, you have to buy an instrument and play it, and you may be over the relationship before you even play it properly. But for the peasants, maybe hum? 😅
He wrote Moonlight Sonata for a blind girl who wanted to know what moonlight looked like, translated into music.
Another one!!!!!!
I don’t think you had options to date. It was birth, childhood then marriage.
So the song finishes, you pull yourself from your fainting couch, and slap the musician you have trapped in your home to play it again…
my psychiatrist has moonlight sonata as his hold music 😭
I’m going to be that pedantic guy that everyone hates: it was published in 1802, not 1823.
Beethoven was still alive and composing in 1823; by that point he was stone deaf, and writing the 9th Symphony (had its debut performance in 1824), which would definitely help you get over a bad breakup.
I imagine if it was 1823 and I acted like that just dropped, everyone else be like WTF, that’s 20 years old shit! Try this Sonata #30, its fresh!
Breakups in 1823 only came in the form of “husband mysteriously drops dead after dinner” or “Reigning Monarch Murders Wife.” Y’know, death did them part.
…And you want to listen to it over and over, but recorded music doesn’t exist yet. So you lurk while the musicians practice, hiding in the spreading darkness beyond the orchestra pit, sometimes weeping adagio sostenuto, sometimes bawling presto agitato.
Put the third movement on repeat!
Heading for the bottle of laudanum.
lol, its not the sort of things u’d be bothered much with in 1823.
Typical imagination of twitter child mindstate.
Then you die without hearing it because you’re a serf who has never heard a piano
People didn’t break up back then.
They got married and then sometime later they died.
Taylor Swift born in 1799 releasing the first unrecorded session about a stubbed toe and churning too much butter.
🤣
Imagine Beethoven having to write a symphony because he can’t get enough hookers and blow and you’re on your 89th symphony created only for the purpose of satiating a terrible amphetamine problem. It isn’t like he had to listen to his own music like Anne Frank and shit.
He’s just following you on a pull-behind playing and tormenting your soul where ever you go?
The beautiful darkness.
Such a good song.
I’m listening to it right now and all I have to say is…..FUCK!! I am single and this shit cuts deep.
Oh the great journey of pining for lost love I would embark upon OH great spirit know me now…my god the pain is unbearable and yet I bear it
Imagine there weren’t records for a not yet invented gramophone.
You couldn’t just listen to music or go to a concert.
I went to play this recently and this tweet is just the top comment on YouTube.
She’s right though.
Verily!
The actual story of The Moonlight Sonata from The Music Professor. There’s a fascinating connection to Don Giovanni.
https://youtu.be/Ejsh-NZCWm8?si=xBpkximTeVlhdgkP
Okay, but this is me even to this day. I’ve played “Moonlight Sonata” over and over after every breakup I’ve ever had.
And then you catch the black scurvy and die at 19! Fucking breakups blow, progress fucking rocks!!