Moonlight Sonata. A name often, but foolishly, applied to Beethoven's sonata in C sharp, Op. 27, No. 2, composed in 1801.
Pronouncing Dictionary and Condensed Encyclopedia of Musical Terms, Instruments, Composers, and Important Works, by W.S.B. Mathews, Theodore Presser Pub., 1880, Addenda p. 79.
