Moonlight Sonata Allegretto Jazzy!!!

[rlefebvr]

Anybody else feel that Beethoven's Sonata Op27 Allegretto (2nd Movement) as a very jazzy feel to it. Never paid much attention to it before tonight.
Just wondering if it's just me needing sleep or if I am on the mark
On another note, the third movement is simply insane. Feels so out of control and yet it's not. Freaking Beethoven.
No whimpy Chopin music in there.  

LONG LIVE THE KING.....LONG LIVE BEETHOVEN.

[comme_le_vent]

yes the rhythmic phrasing is slightly jazzy now that i come to think of it, but its nothing compared to the swingin 2nd mvt of his last sonata - probably the most jazzy piece written before ragtime or anythin like that.

and whilst i do agree that the finale is rather insane and totally unwimpy.
i think you should go and listen to some more chopin - namely the op10/4, 10/12, 25/11 and the final prelude in d minor, wimpy? - methinks not.

[Antnee]

Yeah...

The last movement of Beethoven's last sonata is very jazzy. And I agree with comme_le_vent. Chopin was surely not a wimp. He wrote alot of thundering passionate music, butevery not always had a purpose, like his delicate pieces.

-Tony-

[ayahav]

Firstly, the 3rd movement is not the allegreto, it's the Presto agitato.

Other than that, Liszt put it best:

the second movement is "a flower between two chasms".

[faulty_damper]

"Anybody else feel that Beethoven's Sonata Op27 Allegretto (2nd Movement) as a very jazzy feel to it."

No.  Okay, sorta.  But not anymore.

By sorta, when I used to play it that way.

And not anymore, because I doesn't sound right that way.

And about Op.111 finale:  Yes, the most jazzy before jazz.  Yes, not only was he the greatest but he also invented Jazz!  Jazz is German invention.  Not lousy American.