How many classical pieces can you name whose title contains the word 'moon' or some variation of it?

Carl Orff: Der Mond

Debussy: Clair de lune / Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut / La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune.

other than that, very little or few.

There is probably an abundance of mention of moon, moonlight, nightingails in the art song repertoire, Lieder, Chansons, etc. The fifth of the songs in Berlioz' cycle Les Nuits d'ete, "Au cimetière, clair de lune," for one example.

You do know the Beethoven Sonata 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 59, No. 2, is called 'Sonata quasi una fantasia' - don't you?

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (1801) is probably the most widely recognised classical piece commonly called by a lunar title, but the composer never connected it with the moon. The name by which the piece is commonly known is due to the critic Ludwig Rellstab's comparing the piece to the effect of moonlight on Lake Lucerne, several years after its composition.

Debussy's Au Clair de Lune ("By The Light of The Moon") approaches the fame of the Moonlight sonata. Debussy also wrote The Terrace for Moonlight. Antonín Dvořák included Song to the Moon in his opera Rusalka (1900). Less widely known works include Edward MacDowell's To the Moonlight, Leopold Godowsky's Boro Budur in Moonlight, Dennis Ruff's Aries Moon (1938) and Petr Cvikl's Aria of the Moon. Several of Franz Schubert's Lieder set poems with lunar subjects (for example, An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht D.614, and several settings of An den Mond).

Among modernist works, Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire treats the subject of a moon-struck Pierrot.

Moonlight Sonata

Clair de Lune

Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

Terrace for Moonlight Audiences (Debussy)

Et la Lune descend sur la Temple qui fut (Debussy)

Beethoven : Moonlight Sonata.

Debussy : Clair De Lune.

Dvorak : Song to the Moon.

Dvorak : O Silver Moon.

Grieg : Romancer Og Sange, Op.18 No.1.Vandring I Skoven (Moonlit Forest)

I can think of three compositions entitled "Au claire de la lune."

One is the piano piece by Debussy, one is the song by Lully, and one is the art song by Faure.