Beethoven's Moonlight sonata is two centuries old this year. He wrote it for a pupil in an attempt to woo her into marrying him, but she disliked the piece and rejected his advances. Pianist John Lill and Professor Malcolm Wilson demonstrate the pitfalls of performing the Moonlight, and biographer
John Suchet describes the circumstances under which this famous piano piece was written. Producer RosieBouiton(R)
