Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Starting off with a slow, distinct sound of the piano, Beethoven seems to be playing in an impression of some type of meditative state. Almost following asleep while listening to it in the beginning, he strikes the keys with force to awaken his audience, and once he does, continues with his original tone of the instrument.
The middle of the piece is sometimes used to recapture the audience. With my ears fully aware of the mood he is trying to set, Beethoven instead changes paces a little more frequently than he did to start off his piece. Keeping the usual beat in the background from the beginning, he adds a little more strike into his notes, and speeds or slows down the pace. While listening to it, one might catch themselves trying to nod their head to the loud notes, timing it in their minds.
Unlike other pieces, there is no point in the sonata where you find yourself saying, “now that just takes the cake.” Although this may seem like a pivotal error in the eyes of a fan, the musician knew exactly what he was doing by this. By keeping a steady beat with occasional changes in intensity and rhythm, audiences are sub-consciously sucked into the song because of the consistency of the sound of music.
In a sense of the degree of difficulty in the piece, it is far from the best. Yet, in the sense of capturing an audience by playing notes into creating a certain mood, the entire piece “takes the cake!”