Yes, that's the one! (Sor's version is No. 5 at <http:// www.guitarist.com/midis/sor/sor20.htm>) EC
On 8 Aug 2005, at 17:35, Roman Turovsky wrote: >> 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 > >
