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Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)
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The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor \"Quasi una fantasia\", Op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is popularly known as the \"Moonlight\" Sonata. The work was completed in 1801[1] and dedicated to his pupil, 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi,[2] with whom Beethoven was, or had been in love.[3] The name \"Moonlight\" Sonata derives from a 1832 description of the first movement by poet Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.[4][1]

Beethoven included the phrase \"Quasi una fantasia\" (Italian: Like a fantasy) in the title because the sonata does not follow the traditional sonata pattern where the first movement is in regular sonata form and where the movements are arranged in a fast-slow-fast sequence.