> Well, thanks for clearing that one up! > The arpeggio pattern is different in the Sor study (which I now > discover is Opus 35 no. 22) but there are similarities in the chord > sequence sufficient to make the resemblance striking - and, yes it > must be that guitarists are just very credulous people! You mean the one that Sor pilfered from #21 at http://www.polyhymnion.org/swv/opus-2.html RT
> =EF=BF=BC > Eric Crouch > > On 7 Aug 2005, at 20:46, Howard Posner wrote: > > > Eric Crouch wrote: > > > > > >> 2) Someone repeated the belief commonly held among guitarists that > >> Beethoven wrote "Moonlight Sonata" after hearing Fernando Sor's study > >> in B minor for guitar. (I think it's from Sor's opus 31, but I'm not > >> sure because my copy hasn't got the opus no. on it.) I'd be > >> interested if anyone (perhaps Arthur) knows whether there is any > >> basis for this belief. > >> > > > > Could the basis be that to some listeners, one bunch of arpeggios > > sounds pretty much like another? > > Do guitarists really believe this? Unless I am badly misinformed, it's > > obviously impossible. > > > > The Moonlight Sonata was written in 1801 (when Beethoven was 30 and > > Sor > > about 23) and published in 1802. Sor had not left Spain by then and > > none of his music was published before 1804. So it would be > > impossible > > for Beethoven to have written the sonata after hearing the Sor study. > > It is, of course, possible that Beethoven influenced Sor. > > > > Howard Posner > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > -- > ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com
