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

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Piano Sonatina In G Major (First Movement Theme)

Theme From Pathetique Sonata

Sonata No. 9 in D major (Grande Sonate), Op. 28

Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major (Grande Sonate)

Cavatina

Piano Concerto No. 3, 3rd Movement

Sonata, E minor, op. 90 (Piano solo)

Symphony No. 6 In F Major ('Pastoral') Third Movement

Sonata Op 31 No 2

Sonata, E major, op. 109 (Piano solo)

Sonata Op 28

12 Variations on a theme by Mozart (The Magic Flute) - Op. 66

Sonata Op 31 No 1

Symphony No. II in D Major

Sonatina In D

Fifth Symphony (Theme from 1st Movement)

Symphony No. 5, in C Minor, First movement theme

Sonata No. 8 in C Minor (2nd Movement)

Piano Sonatina #1 In G Major

Allegretto (Symphony No. 7, 2nd Movement)

Sonata quasi una Fantasia Op 27 No 2

On Top of Old Smokey

Once In Royal David's City (Gauntlett/Mann/Willcocks)

Symphony No. V in C Minor

Sonatina In E Flat

Piano Sonata Op 49 #1

Pno Sonata Op 49 #2

Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major (Grande Sonate), Op 22

Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor (Sonata quasi una fantasia), Op 27, No. 2

Symphony No. III in Eb Major ("Eroica")

Sonata No. 15 in G major, Op 14, No. 2

Piano Sonata Op.27 #2

Symphonies 6,7,8,9 (Mozart)

Sonata No. 8, C Minor, Op 13 (Pathetique)

Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major (Sonata quasi una fantasia)

One Note Samba

Symphony No. IV in Bb Major

Symphony No. I in C Major

12 Variations on a theme by Handel (Judas Maccabaeus) - WoO45

Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op 14, No. 2

Pelagia's Song

Ode To Joy (Symphony No. 9, 4th Movement)

Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, Movement 4

7 Variations on a theme by Mozart (The Magic Flute) - WoO46

Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement Excerpt

Turkish March (The Ruins of Athens)

Moonlight Sonata (Theme from 1st Movement)

Overture To Egmont