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 18 of 161

German Dance in C Major, WoO 8, No.1

Landler in D Major, WoO 15, No. 2

Sonata, A flat major, op. 110 (Piano solo)

Ecossaise in E-Flat Major, WoO 86

German Dance in G Major, WoO8, No.6

Allegretto from Symphony No. 7

Beethoven: Sonata E flat major op. 27,1

Left Hand Position

German Dance in B-Flat Major, WoO 13, No.2

Sonatina in G Major, KH Anh. 5 No.1

Beethoven: Sonata c sharp minor op. 27,2

Beethoven: Sonata C major op. 2,3

Beethoven: Sonata G major op. 14,2

Beethoven: Sonata [Grande Sonata Pathtique] c minor op. 13

Beethoven: Sonata F major op. 10,2

Beethoven: Sonata A major op. 2,2

Beethoven: Sonata f minor op. 2,1

Beethoven: Sonata A flat major op. 26

Beethoven: Sonata E flat major op. 7

German Dance in C Major, WoO 8, No.7

Landler in D Major, WoO 11, No. 2

Beethoven: Sonata D major op. 10,3

Both Hands

Alla Ingharese quasi un Capriccio [Rage over the last penny], G major, op. 129 (Piano solo)

Landler in D Major, WoO 11, No.4

Contredance in C Major, WoO 14, No.1

Landler in D Major, WoO 11, No.7

Beethoven: Sonata E major op. 14,1

Song of the Cello

Beethoven: Sonata c minor op. 10,1

Menuet in B-Flat Major, WoO7, No.8

Beethoven: Sonata [Pastorale] D major op. 28

Beethoven: Sonata B flat major op. 22

Landler in D Minor, WoO 15, No. 4

Recitative and Chorale [Edited by Anthony Bianco, Transcribed by Victoria Berneking]

German Dance in G Major, WoO8, No.11

Alpine Melody

Bagatelle in A Minor, Opus 119, No.9

Bagatelle, Op. 126, No. 5

Adagio from Sonata in C Sharp Minor "Moonlight"

Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight) - First Movement Theme

Bagatelle in A Major, Opus 119, No.4

Bagatelle In A Minor 'Fur Elise', WoO 59

Bagatelle In B-flat Major, WoO 60

Bagatelle In C Major, Op. 33, No. 2

Bagatelle In A Major, Op. 33, No. 4

Bagatelle in D major, op. 33, no. 6

Bagatelle in A-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 7

Beethoven: Sonata [Grande Sonata Pathtique] c minor op. 13