Is the Pathethique Sonata not the most beautiful piece of music ever?

[sir_captain]

Particularly the second movement...just perfect...

[Fridays Child]

1. The Waldstein runs a close second but, the Pathetique is truly...

...beautiful beyond words.

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4. you mean the waldheim sonata?

[Fridays Child]

12. Here's some information...

:)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/pizarro/ram/sonata21.ram

http://www.madaboutbeethoven.com/pages/people_and_places/people_patrons/people_patrons_waldstein.htm

[redqueen]

2. Not IMO

IMO Moonlight Sonata is.

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5. the moonlight sonata now gets my vote IF it's the entire piece

not just the vastly overplayed first movement.

the third movement is a masterpiece, but one must have phnomenal dexterity to play it even remotely competently.

sadly it is vastly out of my own grasp...

[redqueen]

7. Mine as well

I got the first movement down, then gave up.

[catzies]

3. Yes, it is not.

:silly:

Chopin's Barcarolle Op. 60 and Berceuse Op. 57 are for me.

Followed closely by Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus.

As for the most perfect, there is only one: the Brandenburgs.

[livinbella]

6. Adagio for Strings, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallus

Romeo and Juliet... all very nice.
The list is almost endless. Does it not depend on what
kind of mood you are in?

[sir_captain]

9. Sure

And I'm certainly in the mood for Op. 8 at the moment...

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8. i once programmed the pathetique into a computer

in the very early days of midi. my piano skills are sadly deficient, but i played 4 measures at a time into my sequencer and then painstakingly doctored it on the computer, note by note, until it was a finely crafted perfection.

it was a fun summer project, and i presented it to my mother at her 50th birthday bash. she was STUNNED when i told her i did it myself, and unfortunately quite disappointed that i "cheated".

sigh, some people just don't understand....

[ooglymoogly]

10. lest we forget the apassionata

or Beethoven's 5th piano or any several of the mozart concertos there is verdi's celest ieda. um bel di, rachmaninoff's 2nd to name a few. my god i could go on for pages blah blah blah don't get me started

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Yes, it is.