Dear Dan,

Moonlight Sonata...

Thank you for reminding me about it - I haven't played it for who knows how many decades, but since you mentioned it, I just sat at the piano and played it, not that bad after so many years.

Dear Yuyutsu ...my hero!

Did you play all three movements, And can you play the entire suite from memory?

Do you play with dampeners?

Can you play it on guitar (Am).?

And did you know Tchaikovsky (not the composer of the above piece), was a homosexual?

"Tchaikovsky: was he the tortured soul who poured out his immortal longings into dignified passages of stately music, or was he just an old poof who wrote tunes?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhjNgXyXEo4

Dear Dan,

I played all three movements, but not from memory and only on the piano, using the "sustain" pedal where needed.

I heard all kinds of rumours about Tchaikovsky, but I don't know whether they are true, including that he was executed because he molested a prince. Ordinary kids were OK at the time, but doing it to a prince was too much.

Incompetent, immature & self-centered teachers are a form of mental abuse to normal stable children.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zh3Yz3PiXZw

Now that is beyond abuse !