[mailing] [mb-users] Classical titles w/ more than one name (eg. MoonlightSonata)

[Marco Sola]

Il Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:35 AM
Rob Keeney <largo84 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I finally got around to fixing some Van Cliburn compilations and I'm
> not real crazy about how I listed Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata.
>
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/0a22f9d2-208d-4eb7-8938-a9a7de20f231.html
>
> Beethoven named the sonata "Quasi una fantasia" but it is probably
> better known as "Moonlight Sonata", see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven%27s_Moonlight_Sonata

>Piano Sonata No. 14 "Quasi una fantasia" in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, 
>"Moonlight"

Mine is

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor Op. 27/2 "Quasi una fantasia" 
("Moonlight"):

QUF is the name LVB provided in italian, moonlight is the popular one, even 
if QUF is not properly a name but a better notation about the form of the 
works, anyway they have to be on the same level.