Twilight
I talked
to one
doctor
why am I sad?
in the twilight to the dark ...
the family is gathering
day dies
darkness is born
life begins
for which you need
inner light
not to get lost ...
so you're sad
if you are then
alone.
I watched him
dully...
I thought about
beethoven and
moon sonata.
I'll see you tomorrow
doctor ...
doctor
why am I sad?
in the twilight to the dark ...
the family is gathering
day dies
darkness is born
life begins
for which you need
inner light
not to get lost ...
so you're sad
if you are then
alone.
I watched him
dully...
I thought about
beethoven and
moon sonata.
I'll see you tomorrow
doctor ...
-- Tr. Danijela Trajković
Moonlight Sonata [quilt] -- Wendy L. Stern
Ludwig van Beethoven was the son of an alcoholic musician who sang in the chapel of the archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. Young Ludwig was often beaten by his father and occasionally locked in a cellar. When he was 21 Ludwig moved to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn, and lived there the rest of his life. By 1801 he was a celebrated pianist and composer. In that year he completed his Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, which in 1832 (5 years after Beethoven’s death) the music critic/poet Ludwig Rellstab compared to moonlight shining on Lake Lucerne – within a decade it was routinely referred to as “Die Mondscheinsonate” (Moonlight Sonata). During the composer’s lifetime it was very popular, though Beethoven told one of his students, “Surely I’ve written better things.” However, Hector Berlioz called it "one of those poems that human language does not know how to qualify."
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