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clslu7 [Classic - Luna (Italian for Moon, Lu + Nana/7 in JP)]This is not the first time I've missed a SotW deadline, but unlike last time something Classic-related was involved, I'm coming out clean with a writing of my own, instead of having another of the blog collaborators to save face in my stead! What we have here is the latest publicly-claimed original arrangement for Taiko shores from Katsuro Tajima (田島勝朗), revisiting one of Ludwig Van Beethoven's most-known piano pieces with his rock-leaning key direction.
Composed in 1801 and published the year after as Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, this was a non-commissioned piano sonata in three movements that was dedicated to Austrian countess Julie "Giulietta" Guicciardi, one of Beethoven's own piano pupils. The author's marked-down notation labels it as "Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2", as to set the piece as a follow-up to the preceeding Piano Sonata No.13 ("Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 1") that was published in the same year of its follow-up's creation conclusion, although it got popularized post-mortem under the name of Mondscheinsonate -"Moonlight Sonata"- thanks to early German music critics of the time analyzing its score. Although by the title it's referred to as a C-sharp minor composition, the key is only followed for its first and third movements -Adagio Sostenuto and Presto Agitato- whereas the in-between Allegretto movement is scored in D-flat major instead. Among the many parties influenced by the Moonlight Sonata legacy in general, it was often quoted as the inspiration source for Polish composer Frédéric Chopin to create the renowned Fantasie-Impromptu, another piece to bolster a Taiko-tailored arrange for it (see more here!).
Katsuro Tajima himself on Twitter (archived tweet) stated how the "Sonata, Rage" of his making mainly arranges the original Beethoven score's third movement, although one brief quote from the second one opens the track as a whole. He also quoted its (unnamed) notecharter that went on saying "it's not that hard!", but the many hybrid 1/16-1/24 longer clusters are still more than capable to toll some accuracy drops, despite not hitting the stamina-draining peaks of Dokadoka and the likes!
