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 39 of 161

Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4

Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3

Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5

Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2

Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2

German Folk Song

Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3

Beethoven: String Quartet B flat major u Grand Fugue op. 133

Gross Fugue in Bb Major, Op. 133

Quartet No. 6 in Bb Major, Op. 18, No. 6

Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1

Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Quartet No. 13 in Bb Major, Op. 130

Quartet No. 3 in Bb Major, Op. 67

Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1

Quartet No. 10 in Eb Major, Op. 74

Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95

Quartet No. 14 in C# Minor, Op. 131

Quartet #10

Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135

Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1

Quartet #9

Country Gardens

Quartet #11

Folk Tune

Quartet No. 12 in Eb Major, Op. 127

The Hippo Song

Down at the Station

Changing Between High and Low Finger Positions

Bear Dance

Double Stops

Horn Call with Echo

Cuckoo

Children's Dance

Winter Song

Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132

Quartet #7

Quartet #8

Fast Eighth Notes

Playing in Different Positions with the Three Patterns

Yankee Doodle

The Three Finger Patterns

The Second Finger is the Tonic

Rocky Mountain High

Little Peter Rabbit

Ash Grove

Good Night Noisy Cricket

Triads in F major, B-flat major and C major