Tune in Today: What’s in a Name (for a World-Famous Piano Composition)?

If I played the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 27, No. 2, subtitled “Quasi una fantasia,” you would immediately recognize it. Title doesn’t ring a bell? Trust me. You’d recognize it. The gently rocking triplets beneath a one-pitch dotted-rhythm (long-short/long) melody gives it away inside three […]