in case you don’t know, most keyboard instruments for a very long time had that layout because ivory was used for the white keys and it was quite expensive, but later the ivory trade got bigger and it was cheap enough to make the main keys ivory
His other 31 Sonatas sound a lot better on it too. It's overplayed and people pretend to discover his music by listening to this only one. I recommend his No. 8 and 23. Please listen to them at least once.
@@fatitankeris6327 I would agree somewhat with this. While I think he certainly wrote much more important sonatas this work is still exceptional. Its so well known that it is used as something that is "relatable" which is how most modern music is sold when that really is not the point at all. Just evoking something well known to get across a certain feeling will always be cheesy to me instead of it coming from the mechanisms of the piece itself. It's why everyone knows the first few bars of this piece but couldn't tell you anything about the rest of the piece (in this case the 3rd movement is also very popular). This opening is powerful on its own so it works but this is an opening. It's a build up to the entrance of T1 which is just as emotionally driven but it's not as digestible for immediate satisfaction when if you would listen to the entire movement really paying attention to what's happening and especially to what the artist playing it is doing with it it is infinitely more powerful then what most people know. Sad thing is this opening is more musically complex then 99% of modern music. Not to say that complexity=better but rather to suggest nuance and subtlety and overall just better craftsmanship.
@@fatitankeris6327 how are you gonna be all elitist about people discovering Beethoven's music through this piece, only to suggest the other most popular sonatas he ever wrote 💀💀💀
A little history: the word "pianoforte" comes from the fact that with this instrument you can play piano (soft) and fortes (strong) notes, something that was technically and mechanically impossible with the harpsichord! many people who are in the world of music may already know it, but just in case there is someone who doesn't, it never hurts to know! 😌🎶
@@masscreationbroadcasts Harpsychords as the name implies are plucked by a pick when you press a key, it doesn't really matter how strong you press the key, only how fast you press it.
this is a common misconception, harpsichords can play soft and loud, the fortepiano has its name because it is capable of doing so on a single key without levers and with the possibility of intricate dynamics
@M. Error bc today we use revised versions of the designs of Steinway in the early 1800, but this specific one looks like a Cristofori Pianoforte wich design is from the middle 1700's, design that stayed until the Steinway design.
@M. Error again he meant when they were still popular as a keyboard instrument, not many people play on them today though since the modern piano is much better to play on
In my opinion, this version is a lot better than one on a regular piano. It’s softness and reverberation creates a much more melancholic, emotive atmosphere that I think Beethoven intended.
@@literatetree8394 I used Ludwig Van in this comment because just saying Beethoven felt boring. And besides, his full name is literally Ludwig Van Beethoven. That is his name. So I'm going to call him that.
@@hyperactiveofficial8096 Im telling you, Ludvig Van means nothing. It means "Ludvig from". Calling him Ludvig Van is like calling Queen Elizabeth "The Queen of".
@@literatetree8394 His father named him Ludwig. Are you undermining the significance of his own name? That's like if you told me my own first and middle name were insignificant. Show some respect. Van may mean from, but Beethoven is not a title, it's a last name. Please stop bothering me about this.
No. The correct word is piano. Fortepiano word is used to call all the keyboard instrument group such as piano, grandpiano, pianoforte but not pipe organ or harpsichord. It incorrect to say "I studied fortepiano in a music school" but correct to say "I studied piano in a music school". So it's piano class, not fortepiano class. (I studied in Rimsky-Korsakov Music School in St Petersburg, Russia).
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Beethoven's piano was more similar than a today's piano. But it still preserves the metallic sound of the fortepiano. And a piano of Beethoven's era already has the sustain pedal
Classical music has been proved for centuries to be healing, in all areas of life. Listening to classical music soothe and calms and helps brain cells grow! I’m glad it helped you! In certain vineyards in Italy & France have used classical music to help grapes grow. They say it results in softer tasting and stronger disease resistant grapes. Chicken farmers have also experimented playing classical music to gens and they too lay more eggs with stronger shells. So yes classical music is good for us, I remember been 7 and the music Teacher telling us to close our eyes while listening and try to visualise what the music made us feel. Perhaps we all need to listen more and let our brains enjoy the mental peace and emotional stimulation that is classical music. Thank you for sharing your experience! 🥰🌸💜🙏
More importantly for this piece, the sustain would not last as long on a Fortepiano (I think because of the thinner/less courses of strings?), which is why in the original publications of this Sonata, the entire first movement (heard here) is supposed to be played with the sustain pedal depressed. On a modern piano we lift it up between chords because the sound lasts so long that otherwise they would all become muddy. But on a fortepiano like this one, each chord simply melts and dies away into the next one as the dampers never mute the strings!
LOVE that someone finally uploaded a video playing this Immortal Masterpiece on the same type of piano Herr Beethoven would have actually composed & played this on 🙌✨️🎹🎼🥰
In Russia, we still call regular pianos "Фортепиано" (Fortepiano), and sometimes "Пианино" (Pianino). Grand pianos are called "Рояль" (Royal') in Russia, for pretty self - explanatory reasons.
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the teacher: alright now play the white key Me: -plays the white key but it’s a sharp- the teacher: nononono not that key the WHITE KEY me: bro my piano on dark mode
The reason that the keys are inverted is because ivory, the white material used to make piano keys was so much more rare and expensive than the wood used for the black keys.
Is it just me or is it small like the keys cuz if yes then that is unfair.... People with small hands would appreciate this a lot nowadays But ignoring what I said sounds great!
@@Ace-dv5ce nah a fortepiano/pianoforte is not the regular ”piano”. i mean technically it is, but for the modern piano that name is never used. pianoforte refers to this earlier type of piano
@@dnuma5852 I’m not saying it’s the same instrument but it is a forte piano technically but we just call it piano cause it’s easier, and that leaves room for calling the other instrument forte piano as a primary name, although both are forte pianos and the modern one isn’t a piano 😂 Also I’d wager the modern piano is even more forte-piano than the old one but it’s still being called piano 🤣
The frequency are actually integers. Modern music is equal temperament, meaning that a C# and a Db are not playing the same frequency and why Tritones (aug dim) sound bad and are rarely used. This piano is perfectly tuned. That’s why it sounds fuggin amazing Edit-integers are just whole numbers. Meaning not a decimal/fraction
Piano is just short for fortepiano. Harpsichords did not change in volume hitting the key soft or hard and they preceded fortepianos. Fortepianos were created with that in mind, being able to change the dynamics (volume) with your hands. Forte = loud, piano = soft (in sheet music). Hence.. fortepiano. Which is long for piano.
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“Yo who switched my piano to night mode”
Lmao It's confusing 🤣
I would fuckin love to have a night mode piano
it's moonlight sonata though
Lolssss
@@ValedictionXaq woah
The inverted color looks so nice and refreshing
And also fits the music
Damn they already had dark theme in 1700?!
@@samueleproiettimicozzi8134 Tbf it was there at first if I'm not mistaken
@@plexi9043 wym
The “dark mode” keyboard was actually the norm before what we have today.
Ngl, a dark mode version of a piano would be interesting
“Dark Mode Piano” beautiful. 😂
in case you don’t know, most keyboard instruments for a very long time had that layout because ivory was used for the white keys and it was quite expensive, but later the ivory trade got bigger and it was cheap enough to make the main keys ivory
@@chat6128 right that makes sense
Original pianos went black because it was more keys to paint they were white because they were made of ivory
tbf pianos now are in light mode . This is the og
Moonlight sonata sounds so much better with this piano. It's more soft which really isolates the melancholic feel of the piece.
Uhm, no
Uhm, maybe
His other 31 Sonatas sound a lot better on it too. It's overplayed and people pretend to discover his music by listening to this only one. I recommend his No. 8 and 23. Please listen to them at least once.
@@fatitankeris6327 I would agree somewhat with this. While I think he certainly wrote much more important sonatas this work is still exceptional. Its so well known that it is used as something that is "relatable" which is how most modern music is sold when that really is not the point at all. Just evoking something well known to get across a certain feeling will always be cheesy to me instead of it coming from the mechanisms of the piece itself. It's why everyone knows the first few bars of this piece but couldn't tell you anything about the rest of the piece (in this case the 3rd movement is also very popular). This opening is powerful on its own so it works but this is an opening. It's a build up to the entrance of T1 which is just as emotionally driven but it's not as digestible for immediate satisfaction when if you would listen to the entire movement really paying attention to what's happening and especially to what the artist playing it is doing with it it is infinitely more powerful then what most people know. Sad thing is this opening is more musically complex then 99% of modern music. Not to say that complexity=better but rather to suggest nuance and subtlety and overall just better craftsmanship.
@@fatitankeris6327 how are you gonna be all elitist about people discovering Beethoven's music through this piece, only to suggest the other most popular sonatas he ever wrote 💀💀💀
A little history:
the word "pianoforte" comes from the fact that with this instrument you can play piano (soft) and fortes (strong) notes, something that was technically and mechanically impossible with the harpsichord!
many people who are in the world of music may already know it, but just in case there is someone who doesn't, it never hurts to know! 😌🎶
The more you joe
So... Harpsichords are the "normal" ones?
@@masscreationbroadcasts Harpsychords as the name implies are plucked by a pick when you press a key, it doesn't really matter how strong you press the key, only how fast you press it.
this is a common misconception, harpsichords can play soft and loud, the fortepiano has its name because it is capable of doing so on a single key without levers and with the possibility of intricate dynamics
To summarize: pianoforte is a dynamic level in music that’s a little hard to define.
Edit: fortepiano is one too
The resonance feel like heaven.
fortepianos literally still exist whachu mean
So something made a long time ago can’t exist?
He means people stopped using them as the main keyboard instrument around that time, around the time when Beethoven died
@M. Error bc today we use revised versions of the designs of Steinway in the early 1800, but this specific one looks like a Cristofori Pianoforte wich design is from the middle 1700's, design that stayed until the Steinway design.
@@TotaDS8 I was thinking that too XD
@M. Error again he meant when they were still popular as a keyboard instrument, not many people play on them today though since the modern piano is much better to play on
Moonlight sonata will never get old
I need a full version of this...
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In my opinion, this version is a lot better than one on a regular piano. It’s softness and reverberation creates a much more melancholic, emotive atmosphere that I think Beethoven intended.
It has a very stormy, moody sound. I can 100% imagine Ludwig Van playing one of these.
Don't call him that, it is not his name. Ludvig Van Beethoven means Ludvig From Beethoven.
@@literatetree8394 I used Ludwig Van in this comment because just saying Beethoven felt boring. And besides, his full name is literally Ludwig Van Beethoven. That is his name. So I'm going to call him that.
@@hyperactiveofficial8096 Im telling you, Ludvig Van means nothing. It means "Ludvig from". Calling him Ludvig Van is like calling Queen Elizabeth "The Queen of".
@@literatetree8394 His father named him Ludwig. Are you undermining the significance of his own name? That's like if you told me my own first and middle name were insignificant. Show some respect. Van may mean from, but Beethoven is not a title, it's a last name. Please stop bothering me about this.
@@hyperactiveofficial8096 I don't think you get it
My piano teacher told me that in Russia the modern piano is called "fortepiano"
they do call it that, can confirm
As an russian, can confirm
No. The correct word is piano. Fortepiano word is used to call all the keyboard instrument group such as piano, grandpiano, pianoforte but not pipe organ or harpsichord. It incorrect to say "I studied fortepiano in a music school" but correct to say "I studied piano in a music school". So it's piano class, not fortepiano class. (I studied in Rimsky-Korsakov Music School in St Petersburg, Russia).
@@vlad8633 wrong
@@МаксимГуревич-я3щ yeah bro tell me you never heard anyone call a normal piano a “fortepiano”
Oh my heavens!!! I needed to listen to my favorite piece of music of ALL TIME. THANK YOU KINDLY. I hope one day to own a Piano like this one and a Guerneri Violin! BLESSINGS TO YOU!🙏🎻🎹❣❣
Beethoven's piano was more similar than a today's piano. But it still preserves the metallic sound of the fortepiano. And a piano of Beethoven's era already has the sustain pedal
This music played with a fortepiano sounds amazing and it's so refreshing! 🎵🎹🎼🎶
Some instrument makers still produce these. There are some pianists who like to play on instruments from the music's time period.
Only one word is worthy of this piano and performance -- MAGNIFICENT!
I love that inverted piano
I used to practice on these, beautiful tone and voice to them!
It’s ironic that it’s called a “Fortepiano” when it’s softer than modern pianos. (forte means loud)
Edit: I didn’t expect to get 2.5K likes on this
Piano means soft, it’s named that to display the range of sound it has (loud to soft)
So I guess its called “PianoPiano.”
So a forte
@Smoked Bear i mean, Forte still means loud
@Smoked Bear no the name was Pianoforte.
Moonlight Sonata is beautiful and brings tears to my eyes ❤
I was assaulted in 2016. Classical piano helped me recover, and this was one of the pieces I listened to. Many times.
Classical music has been proved for centuries to be healing, in all areas of life. Listening to classical music soothe and calms and helps brain cells grow! I’m glad it helped you!
In certain vineyards in Italy & France have used classical music to help grapes grow. They say it results in softer tasting and stronger disease resistant grapes.
Chicken farmers have also experimented playing classical music to gens and they too lay more eggs with stronger shells.
So yes classical music is good for us, I remember been 7 and the music Teacher telling us to close our eyes while listening and try to visualise what the music made us feel.
Perhaps we all need to listen more and let our brains enjoy the mental peace and emotional stimulation that is classical music. Thank you for sharing your experience!
🥰🌸💜🙏
Sensibilidade de revela, quando obras como essa nos conduzem ao Paraiso sem precisarmos sair fisicamente do lugar .
More importantly for this piece, the sustain would not last as long on a Fortepiano (I think because of the thinner/less courses of strings?), which is why in the original publications of this Sonata, the entire first movement (heard here) is supposed to be played with the sustain pedal depressed. On a modern piano we lift it up between chords because the sound lasts so long that otherwise they would all become muddy. But on a fortepiano like this one, each chord simply melts and dies away into the next one as the dampers never mute the strings!
It looks wonderful. Thank you so mush for showing us the history of music!
thank you so much for not turning this into fkn 'still dre'
I love being able to hear what it may have actually sounded like when it was composed!
There is a man in colorado springs colorado that makes baroque pianos and harpischords in his home workshop. Amazing craftsmanship.
LOVE that someone finally uploaded a video playing this Immortal Masterpiece on the same type of piano Herr Beethoven would have actually composed & played this on 🙌✨️🎹🎼🥰
My left ear enjoyed
Both my ears enjoyed. Something is wrong with your headphones
Nope, your earphones are the problem
@@applejuices i think they just meant you can hear better on the left ear??? because you can???🤨
@@Gardiled No, "my left ear enjoyed" is a way to say a video has unbalanced audio
@@applejuices i just said that 🤨
Absolutely beatiful.
In Russia, we still call regular pianos "Фортепиано" (Fortepiano), and sometimes "Пианино" (Pianino). Grand pianos are called "Рояль" (Royal') in Russia, for pretty self - explanatory reasons.
This piano is beautiful. Even stunning. I’d love to have something like this in my house.
The piano looks more badass like that,ngl
Love the key colors.
That’s so awesome I’ve never seen piano keys like that before🤩
Oh bliss, bliss and heaven! Gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh 🤍👌🏻
Sounds and feels so much better. Very moody and stormy.
It’s so pretty :)
I was expecting this to turn into still dre.
Fortepiano and harpsichord are my 2 favorite keyboard instruments
Ohhh so ein schönes Klavier!!!😍
I like this. As a long time pianist, this hits hard.
I thought it said “Beethoven’s moonlight sonata on four seasons” and that thumbnail was just an inverted cursed photo
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Unico, !!!!
He felt the music he never heard it or saw his listener how he did it is a miracle. Really blind and deaf!
Forte means loud and piano means quiet in Italian
no
@@KalonBrassyes
Correct.
Sounds wonderful ❤
Bros piano keys finally got an n-word pass 💀
Moonlight sonata. A very beautiful piece
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You can do it, i believe you💪🏻💪🏻💕
We need this on spotify pronto!
the teacher: alright now play the white key
Me: -plays the white key but it’s a sharp-
the teacher: nononono not that key the WHITE KEY
me: bro my piano on dark mode
This sounds beautiful
I gotta get the "Night Mode Piano"
It's just a normal piano, the keyboard we have nowadays is the inverted one
I love the octave this piano is in its very beautiful and sounds very beautiful and I love moonlight sonata on this piano
Where did you get or how did you get to try a piano like this? I also want
I love these types of pianos with inverted keys
lmao he got a custom skin for the piano
Love to listen to the whole piece..
Ok but now I really want a piano where the white and black keys are switched
Just get some sharpies and whiteout and get to work
So nice sound, and very good playing.
No wonder there's stories of him just destroying pianos when he improvised. Double coursed and wooden framed. Flimsy.
¡¡¡¡¡Que hermoso lo interpretas!!!!.
GRACIAS.
To all I recommend to listen to not only Beethoven's overplayed Moonlight, but his Sonatas No. 8 and No. 23.
Thank you!! I’m always looking for “if you like this, you’d probably like this” recommendations. 🤍
these are also overplayed
@@dnuma5852 Much less than the 14th. Much greater masterpieces.
The reason that the keys are inverted is because ivory, the white material used to make piano keys was so much more rare and expensive than the wood used for the black keys.
The keys colors are inverted lol. Good talent anyways, this melody sounds amazing.
thats how the keys looked back in the day
was a lot cheaper to invert colors
So beautiful piano😮
Hammerklavier or hammerflügel
Interesting that it's called a Fortepiano but it's softer than most new pianos
Modern pianos are just different. It is not the same instrument at all. And it keeps evolving.
Is it just me or is it small like the keys cuz if yes then that is unfair.... People with small hands would appreciate this a lot nowadays
But ignoring what I said sounds great!
Agreed. Maybe being a fortepianist is the path for small hand people
Nah I have big hands and still manage to play it tho, just curve and light finger touch.
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Those hand so clean and smooth I though its AI playing
Dark looks so pleasing
Ironic how, despite the piano is called a Fortepiano, it's quite mellow to me.
Although it would be weird to call it a Pianopiano, huh?
LMAOOOO
A regular piano is actually a forte piano and not a piano because it can be both loud and soft; we just call it piano
@@Ace-dv5ce nah a fortepiano/pianoforte is not the regular ”piano”. i mean technically it is, but for the modern piano that name is never used. pianoforte refers to this earlier type of piano
@@dnuma5852 I’m not saying it’s the same instrument but it is a forte piano technically but we just call it piano cause it’s easier, and that leaves room for calling the other instrument forte piano as a primary name, although both are forte pianos and the modern one isn’t a piano 😂
Also I’d wager the modern piano is even more forte-piano than the old one but it’s still being called piano 🤣
@@Ace-dv5ce yeah naming is stupid, i pointed out that technically it was in my original comment
Beautiful piano 👌🏼
I see fortepiano.... I subscribe
The color is perfect with the song 😮
Effulgently played. _Psst, unbutton Your blazer whilst sitting down._
I’ve always wanted to play on one of these!!!
The frequency are actually integers. Modern music is equal temperament, meaning that a C# and a Db are not playing the same frequency and why Tritones (aug dim) sound bad and are rarely used. This piano is perfectly tuned. That’s why it sounds fuggin amazing
Edit-integers are just whole numbers. Meaning not a decimal/fraction
oh wow… i want this piano, it sounds so nice
Nice now play rush e
smh
how about no
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Piano is just short for fortepiano. Harpsichords did not change in volume hitting the key soft or hard and they preceded fortepianos. Fortepianos were created with that in mind, being able to change the dynamics (volume) with your hands. Forte = loud, piano = soft (in sheet music). Hence.. fortepiano. Which is long for piano.
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Sounds beautiful! That low Gb sounded so full.
“WHO TURNED THE GRAND PIANO EMO”
Beautiful!!!
The tone is like perfectly low enough but doesnt sound like any flats which is just perfect
The sound is galaxy level magical.
I'm actually so glad we moved on to the piano. Such an improvement imo.
So beautiful
dude black keys and white half keys look so much better dude
Sounds heavenly
Soo beautoful
Perfeição !
Your piano is so cool!!
A esta belleza de música se le debe poner a nuestra vista quién está tocando!
Maravilhoso piano.
Stunning