Memorize "Moonlight Sonata"

A comic I’ve loved for a long time has turned into TV format in Japan, with a J-drama airing currently and an anime version in the planning. Nodame Cantabile story is a romance-comedy-drama about a genius pianist who dreams of becoming a conductor, set in a Japanese school of music.

In the start of the first episode he plays the fast movement of “Moonlight Sonata” for a bit, which made me want to start on this goal again. During the series more attention is given to other Beethoven songs, for example the “Spring Sonata” is heavily present in the early parts of the comic… In the drama version they play Beethoven’s 7th Symphony in its place.

I want to learn the second movement, that machinegun-fast hurricane of a sonata. I’m not doing anything towards learning this or even how to play piano at the moment, which is a bit of a shame. I’m confident that I have enough to learn to play piano at a ‘provisional’ level, so that the first movement could be executed in a technically accurate manner, but I’m sure the piano studies I cut off as a kid will come back to bite my ankle if I ever will start to practice the second one.

Edit: Looking back on what I’ve written, I do realize the fast movement is in fact the third movement, not the second. ;)