Sorry about that! You can tape them together and fold them into a book. You will also notice that I made the notes a bit bigger than the original the result is that it is 6 pages instead of 4. (Click here if you would like to read about how Beethoven’s Sonata quasi una Fantasia – “Sonata in the manner of a fantasy” – became known as the Moonlight Sonata.) All of the original notes are present, I just made it a bit easier to read and play. Note that this is not a simplified arrangement. As a result, some of the notes are very low on the treble staff, so feel free to write the letter names next to (not above or below) the notes you haven’t yet learned.

So I took up the challenge and transposed the entire first movement to E minor.Īt first I tried transposing it to D minor, but then realized that if I moved it a bit higher, I could avoid moving the right hand into the bass clef here and there, which pianists find confusing. That just seems like too much to take on for most of us. Many piano players bemoan the fact that they would love to play Beethoven’s gorgeous Moonlight Sonata, except for the fact that Beethoven wrote it in C# minor, which has 4 sharps 🤦🏽.