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 85 of 161

Missa Solemnis, No. 5: Benedictus

Europa - An die Freude - Score

Country Dance in D Major, WoO11, No. 1

Das Liedchen von der Ruhe, No. 3 from "Eight Songs", Op. 52

Six Songs, Op. 75, No. 2: Neue Liebe, neues Leben

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. II, Nos. 17 - 32

German Dance in C Major, WoO8, No. 7

Beethoven: Symphonies 5, 6 & 7 in Full Score - Full Score

Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2 - Piano Score

Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 16 - Piano Score

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12, No. 1 - Set of Parts

Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2 - Set of Parts

Violin Sonata No. 3 - Violin - Violin

Sonata No. 4 Eb Major Op. 7 - Piano

String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2 - Score and Parts

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1

String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 - Violin 1

String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5 - Viola

String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 - Score and Parts

String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 - Viola

String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135 - Violin 2

String Quintet c minor Op.104 - Viola 2

String Quintet Eb Major Op. 4 - Viola 1

Fugue D Major Op.137 - Violin 1

Concerto G Major Op.61 - Score

String Quartet F Major Op.14 No. 1 - Viola

Sonata No. 2 g minor Op. 5 No. 2 - Score

Sonata No. 5 D Major Op.102 No. 2 - Score

Allegretto c minor WoO 53 - Piano

Adagio - Preface

12 Variations Op.66 - Cello

Mass in C Major, Op. 86 - Full Score

Serenade in D Major, Op. 8 - Cello

Adagio from "Pathetique" Sonata - Tuba 2

Menuetto - Flute 1

Beethoven Library of Piano Works Volume I: Dances, Songs, and Studies

Die Liebe des Nächsten, No. 2 from "Six Songs", Op. 48

String Quintet C Major Op.29 - Cello

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 - Full Score

Complete Bagatelles

Violin Sonata No. 9 - Violin - Violin

String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major, Op. 130 - Cello

Fur Elise a minor WoO 59 - Full Score

Adagio from Moonlight Sonata - easy version - Piano

Fidelio, Op. 72, No. 4: "Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben"

Bagatelle in E-flat Major

Fidelio, Op. 72, No. 13: "Euch werde Lohn"

String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 - Cello