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Moonlight Sonata in a Classical Well Tempered Tuning
April 8, 2021
Well Temperament, Video
Carl Radford
Moonlight Sonata in a Classical Well Tempered Tuning
Carl Radford
April 8, 2021
Well Temperament, Video

Moonlight Sonata in a Classical Well Tempered Tuning

Carl Radford
April 8, 2021
Well Temperament, Video

Carl Radford plays the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, but not in the Modern tuning as is usually heard today, rather in a Classical Well Tempered tuning, similar to how Beethoven himself may have heard it.

Source: https://youtu.be/7BA-QuWfAck

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