Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827

7,703 works in the index

Era: Classical
Nationality: Electorate of Cologne
Born in: Bonn

Beethoven sits on the hinge between the Classical style he inherited and the Romantic one he made possible, and the catalogue spans both: thirty-two piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, nine symphonies, five piano concerti and a large body of songs and chamber music.

The piano sonatas are the most-bought and the most misjudged. The famous ones — the Moonlight, the Pathétique, the Waldstein — are advanced works, and the first movement of the Moonlight being playable early does not make the rest of it so. The genuine starting points are the two sonatas of Op. 49 and the bagatelles, including the one everyone knows as Für Elise.

He revised heavily and his manuscripts are difficult, so editions disagree about specific notes and markings more than you might expect from a composer this recent. If you are working with a teacher, use theirs.

Catalogue

Works page 122 of 161

Trio in D Major, Op. 36

Missa Solemnis, No. 1: Kyrie

Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2

Piano Sonata No. 03 in D Major

Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57

Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53

Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, "Quasi una fantasia"

Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28

Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1

Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33

Piano Sonata No. 01 in E-flat Major

Piano Sonata No. 02 in F Minor

Symphony No. 5, Movement 4

Symphony No. 6, Movement 2

Symphony No. 6, Movement 3

Symphony No. 7, Movement 3

Mass in C Major, No. 1: Kyrie

Symphony No. 2, Movement 1

Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3

Piano Trio No. 8 in E-flat Major, WoO 38

Piano Trio No. 9 in B-flat Major, WoO 39

Symphony No. 7, Movement 4

Symphony No. 7, Movement 2

Symphony No. 8, Movement 2

Symphony No. 8, Movement 4

Symphony No. 1, Movement 1

Symphony No. 1, Movement 2

Symphony No. 2, Movement 2

Symphony No. 3, Movement 4

Symphony No. 1, Movement 3

Symphony No. 2, Movement 3

Symphony No. 2, Movement 4

Symphony No. 3, Movement 2

Symphony No. 3, Movement 3

Six Bagatelles, Op. 126

Three Songs, Op. 83, No. 1: Rapture Of Melancholy

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Movement 4

Trio in C Major, Op. 87

Rondo in C major, Op. 51, No. 2

Sonata No. 11 in B-flat Major, Op. 22

Horn Sonata in F Major, Op. 17

Symphony No. 9, Movement 3

Symphony No. 9, Movement 2

Sonata No. 19 in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1

Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2

String Trio No. 3 in D Major Op. 9, No. 2

String Trio No. 4 in C Minor Op. 9, No. 3

Polonaise in C Major, Op. 89