Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827

7,690 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 145 of 161

33 Variations on a Waltz by A. Diabelli Op. 120

Menuetto, op. 10, No. 3, from Sonata in D Major

Viennese Waltz, WoO 17, No. 3

Beethoven: Appendix: String Quartet after the Piano Sonata F major op. 14,1

Beethoven: Quartet A major op. 18,5

Beethoven: Quartet D major op. 18,3

Beethoven: Quartet B flat major op. 18,6

Beethoven: Quartet c minor op. 18,4

Beethoven: Quartet F major op. 18,1

Beethoven: Quartet G major op. 18,2

An die Hoffnung, Op. 32

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Bitten

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Die Liebe des Nachsten

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Vom Tode

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Gottes Macht und Vorsehung

6 Songs, Op. 48 - Busslied

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Urians Reise um die Welt

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Feurfarb'

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Das Liedchen von der Ruhe

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Mailied

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Mollys Abschied

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Lied

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Marmotte

8 Songs, Op. 52 - Das Blumchen Wunderhold

Ah! Perfido, Op. 65

6 Songs, Op. 75 - Mignon

6 Songs, Op. 75 - Neue Liebe, neues Leben

6 Songs, Op. 75 - Aus Goethe's Faust

6 Songs, Op. 75 - Gretels Warnung

6 Songs, Op. 75 - An den fernen Geliebten

6 Songs, Op. 75 - Der Zufriedene

4 Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82 - Hoffnung

4 Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82 - Liebes-Klage

4 Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82 - L'amante impaziente

4 Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82 - Lebens-Genuss

3 Songs, Op. 83 - Trocknet nicht

3 Songs, Op. 83 - Sehnsucht

3 Songs, Op. 83 - Mit einem gemalten Band

2 Songs from Egmont, Op. 84

Das Gluck der Freundschaft, Op. 88

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Auf dem Hugel sitz' ich

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Wo die Berge so blau

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Leichte Segler in den Hohen

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Diese Wolken in den Hohen

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Es kehret der Maien

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 - Nimm sie hin denn diese Lieder

Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99