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ACEO (Only 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches, 6.4cm x 8.9cm)
“…His wild eyes - full of turbulent energy- draw you into Beethoven's inner soul, while his unkempt and wild hair remind you that this man did not look conform to the norm. ...
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I love to play this famous mysterious, almost haunting melody myself. It is dark and whisper like. The form of the first movement is a sort of “condensed” sonata. In other words, it plays the main melody, developing it, and then plays it again very similar to how it was originally played.
Background of the "Monschein Sonate" (Moonlight Sonata)
The original title of the sonata is “Quasi una fantasia” (almost a fantasy). The popular title of Moonlight Sonata actually didn’t come about until several years after Beethoven’s death. In 1836, German music critic wrote that the sonata reminded him of the reflected moonlight of Lake Lucerne. Since then, the Moonlight Sonata has remained the title of this beautiful sonata.
Beethoven composed the famous Moonlight Sonata in 1801 and dedicated it to Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, a pupil of Beethoven. Shortly after their first few lessons, the two fell in love. After dedicating the Moonlight Sonata, it is believed that Beethoven proposed to her. Although she was willing to accept Beethoven’s proposal, her parents prevented her from marrying him.
Beethoven was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most respected and influential composers of all time.
Abstract ACEO (2.5 x 3.5 inch) watercolor and Indian black ink on cold press heavy weight paper 140 LB (330 g/m2)
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With thanks to Aaron Green
99 Comments
Julie Mayser 02 Nov 2009
Wonderfully full of energy and personality! Love it!!!Anonymous Guest 23 Jun 2009
fantastic workCalvin McFarlane 04 May 2009
"immortal" and "beloved"Doris Blessington 11 Dec 2008
Olga, This is a fabulous ACEO card AND painting! So, that's what he really looked like! TingSophie Library 13 Jul 2008
I love the way you compose this great, creative art work!jimmy barfield 12 Jul 2008
I LOVE THIS PIECE HIS FACE PERFORMS LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!Andrea Wasson 26 Jun 2008
This is divine! The color blending, the composition... all of it.Cynthia DeMaio 20 Jun 2008
OLGA this is AMAZING I LOVE IT!!! and I love Beethoven he is one of my favorite composer's...I also love the play moonlight sonata on the piano...one of my fav's.Steve Farr 20 Jun 2008
Wow!! Olga, I missed this one!! Its absolutely great!! So original and interesting!!! Luv it, my friend!! ~Sgregg dutcher 20 Jun 2008
Excellent piece, artwork, words, presentation,...excellent!!!!Anonymous Guest 19 Jun 2008
Fantastic watercolor, Olga - accompanied with his beautiful and never to be forgotten music. NatalieGTineke Kleij-van den Boomen 19 Jun 2008
I love this work and of course the colours. A beauty of water.John Swift 17 Jun 2008
Beautiful watercolor, Olga, and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is perfect accompaniment!Caballero Salguero 17 Jun 2008
Good watercolor. Iridescent and very careful. One great Beethoven.!!! For always. Jose'jaime cusano 17 Jun 2008
wow! this is really cool!esther baltisberger 17 Jun 2008
Wow fantastic. First I only saw the upper part of the painting and I thought seeing lovers kissing.beautiful art OlgaBarbara j beck-azar 16 Jun 2008
Olga, this is beautiful - i love the design and the blended spectrum of colors. Great tribute...Jessica Courtley-Rose 16 Jun 2008
Wonderful and colorful art! Creative and interesting too!Laraine Kaizer 16 Jun 2008
Very interesting! I like the way you present this work with the musical information on the left. Very nice!Jan van Baarle 16 Jun 2008
Schitterend!Chas Sinklier 15 Jun 2008
Two and a half by three and a half feet would be fun wouldn't it? I could see it hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ~:0)mat lloyd 15 Jun 2008
WowRenata Cavanaugh 15 Jun 2008
Fantastic workkath nepia 15 Jun 2008
WOW! THIS ROCKS..GORGEOUS..:o)daniel morgenstern 14 Jun 2008
Wow! Beautiful! I love the colours.Maria Anna Machado 14 Jun 2008
Wonderfull!!!!Love...alessandro alex 14 Jun 2008
great idea Olga,wonderful colors and composition!Madeleine Weber 14 Jun 2008
Wonderfull minimalistic portrait!a very happy face.I play the moonlightsonata bymyself and thank him every day for this composition....the state of mind during the play is amazing (:Lucia Stewart 14 Jun 2008
Wonderful and creative Olga!marcel reynaert 13 Jun 2008
Ongelooflijk mooie kleuren Olga. Zeer hoogstaand werk. Marcelbobby haynes 13 Jun 2008
A very lovely piece!Ron DeMore 13 Jun 2008
Ludwiggie ...Olga has got you down!Cree Hovsepian 12 Jun 2008
Olga, this is a great use for an ACEO. You could have a composer series. Loved it.george martinez 12 Jun 2008
great imagination Olga.....Donald Schrier 12 Jun 2008
The brillance of the watercolors is wonderful and you have captured a unique image of a genius of music.Delia Pacheco 12 Jun 2008
Olga this is wonderful! great impression of one of my favorite people, Beethoven...Gina Cowins 12 Jun 2008
Olag, great imagination lovely color composition, awesome.Hui Zhu 12 Jun 2008
GREAT PAINTING *o*Katerina Koukiotis 12 Jun 2008
beautiful work olga!!Marika Antal 12 Jun 2008
wow!! how interesting...Jessica Xu 12 Jun 2008
whoa,cool!Fiona Robinson 12 Jun 2008
Very nice - this is a great paintingAnonymous Guest 11 Jun 2008
wonderful expression dear Olga! -- TahnjaHiromi Green 11 Jun 2008
This is amazing work dear Olga -~I have a memory of the Moonlight Sonata~ AWESOME !Cole McLester 11 Jun 2008
Very very nice, love the color, love the concept.Gavin North 11 Jun 2008
Olga this is simply stunning love your use of color and the almost 3d white outline. Truly an excellent piece that matches your choice music beautifullyFrank Maguire 11 Jun 2008
Hi Olga, I am glad to see that you are getting over your disability, your present picture combined or not, with the music, is a knockout.Sigridur Bachmann 11 Jun 2008
Wow.!!! Fantastic work of art.!!I adore Beethoven too.Thank you for this special gift .!!! :::::::::::SUPERB::::::::::::Anne Vis 11 Jun 2008
Very creative and strong design, Olga!Robin Mead 11 Jun 2008
Fantastic..!!Sara Deutsch 10 Jun 2008
Unique portrait..love the organic quality...Jerie kunitsky 10 Jun 2008
This is just wonderful...I love it.Babis Kiliaris 10 Jun 2008
Great colors !!!Ruth Kauffman 10 Jun 2008
WOW, Olga!!!! I'm glad you can still produce such wonderful art while you are confined!! Beethoven...one of my most favorite composers!!! Thanks for the info...Emilio B. Campo-Diaz 10 Jun 2008
Simply fantastic.Cathy Holford 10 Jun 2008
Wow, that is so beautiful!Rowana Foster 10 Jun 2008
IMPRESSIVE WORK!Bev Chudey 10 Jun 2008
Great image Olga!KC CHANG 10 Jun 2008
GREAT WORK!Barry Huyett 10 Jun 2008
WOW!........very creative....right ON!Joke Schotting 10 Jun 2008
AMAZING WORK MY FRIEND!!Carol Roberts 10 Jun 2008
What a amazing, expressive piece! Well done.usha shantharam 09 Jun 2008
very nice artworkLior Goldenberg 09 Jun 2008
This one is just brilliant! One of your very best, Olga!Seth Weaver 09 Jun 2008
Marvelous expressive portrait of one of the Masters, Olga.David Holcombe 09 Jun 2008
You caught some of the wild artistic passion of this remarkable artist. The lines swirl away like his unruly hair. His eyes remain bright, even obsessive, perhaps because of his new found love.Terry Bullard 09 Jun 2008
love the layout design and the colors are powerful - wonderful job!Vivian Gutierrez 09 Jun 2008
Amazing colors and compositionAnonymous Guest 09 Jun 2008
Yerra! Aren't you great. The rest of us are only trotting after you. Musha! I think I will have to go back to me mouthorgan and give up the brushes entirely. Brave work Olga and the music too.stephanie atlee 09 Jun 2008
This is just wonderful...well doneMrs.David Jobes(Dee) Jobes 09 Jun 2008
Wow!!!Brillliant and Amazing Artwork,Olga!!!STRIKING!!!Great concept!!!,Dee&David :):)debbie braswell 09 Jun 2008
BEAUTIFUL WORK OLGAelizabeth clausen 09 Jun 2008
Ilove this work, Olga, and the description. I have played Moonlight Sonata and it is truly one of my favorites. I love your work with watercolor!!!!leny hendrickx 09 Jun 2008
I had to look first ! and then saw the eyes and mouth , great abstract ! also the tekst about beethoven ,like the way you intregate art with this infomation ! greetings lenySandra McClure 09 Jun 2008
Wow Olga I love this. I feel like I've been to a museum or concert just sitting here. So creative!!!! Very well done.Gerald Dextraze 09 Jun 2008
Excellent !Mimoza Oronova 09 Jun 2008
Very nice work !José Fortunato 09 Jun 2008
Great ! Great ! Just wonderful , OlgaJoanna Jungjohann 09 Jun 2008
Olga, a moving brilliantly colored fashioned and finished work of wonder and beauty, love jo. congrats on picRusty Woodward-Gladdish 09 Jun 2008
This is an amazing piece of art and I just the love the entire concept! Beethoven is one of my favourite composers. (You know I often wonder how come there was such a plethora of composers centred in Germany in the 17th - 19th centuries.) Brilliant artwork!Ann Fawssett-Atkin 09 Jun 2008
Wow...Phil Cashdollar 09 Jun 2008
excelant work of art olga.... you amase me with your talent...Gabrielle Stahlie 09 Jun 2008
Eeen prachtige weergave van Beethoven's portret Olga!Alberto D'Assumpcao 09 Jun 2008
Splendid composition and colours, Olga!!!thea walstra 09 Jun 2008
Awesome work Olga. Big WOW!!annette steens 09 Jun 2008
I LOVE this Olga!MJ Mitchell 09 Jun 2008
In your artwork as well, the eyes draw you in and the wild hair flows - magical piece of artwork and the music together is incredibly pleasing!Annette Labedzki 09 Jun 2008
wonderful!Olga Dmytrenko 09 Jun 2008
Wow! Looks like crazy Beethoven:). Great, Olga!Nira Dabush 09 Jun 2008
Hello Olga.. I very much enjoyed this work, the music and this You Tube... I think its a great idea to work doing a series of GREAT composers. Totally unique! fantastic!ron sargent 09 Jun 2008
Fantastic!Jacki Bowler 09 Jun 2008
Stunning painting Olga...............great colours and you've really captured the essence of wild genius that I associate with Beethoven :o))Sharon Gonzalez 09 Jun 2008
Wow, Olga, I love your very unique paintings. This is a very incredible painting! And the Moonlight Sonata is one of my very favorites. My son played it when he was 9 or 10 years old. Yes, he was a prodigy on the piano.Cathy Jones 09 Jun 2008
Olga, your works are so much fun for the eye! Your colors and shapes are so free and flowing. I LOVE Beethoven he is my favorite classical composer. I just spent a most pleasurable time with this piece!!!!! L&L- CathyAnneke Hut 09 Jun 2008
Incredible, that you can create such a beautiful painting on that small size!!Loredana 09 Jun 2008
Fantastic composition love it Very strong work My friend :)Izabella Pavlushko 09 Jun 2008
it's so expressive, beautifully done portrait ,love it , Olga!!!Lawrence Hickman 09 Jun 2008
impressive and fantastically done beautiful jobGerard van den Berge 09 Jun 2008
Je hebt er weer een prachtig gedocumenteerd werk van gemaakt Olga ; prachtige werk ; en Beethoven is niet weg te denken in de klassieke muziek ; jouw Monschein is vertederend ; maar ik hou ook van de 5e en de 9e. symphonie. Alle menschen werden bruder!