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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Sonata In C Minor Op.111 [Beethoven, Ludvig Van]

Sonata In G Op.49 No.2 [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Sonata No.16 In G Op.31 No.1

Sonata No.17 In D Minor Op.31 No.2 'Tempest'

Sonata No.18 In E Flat Op.31 No.3

Sonata No.4 In E Flat Op.7

Sonata No.8 In C Minor 'Pathetique' Op.13

Sonata No.20 In G Op.49 No.2

Sonata No.21 In C Major Op.53 'Waldstein'

Sonata No.23 In F Minor Op.57 'Appassionata'

Sonata No.25 In G Op.79 'Sonatina'

Sonata No.26 E Flat Op.81a 'Les Adieux'

Sonata No.29 In B Flat Op.106 'Hammerklavier'

Sonata No.33 In E Flat

Sonata No.34 In F Minor

Sonata No.35 In D

Sonata No.36 In C (Easy)

Sonata No.37 In G (Easy)

Sonata No.38 In F (Easy)

Fur Elise (Bagatelle In A Minor WoO 59) [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2 [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Andante (Sonata Op.47 'Kreutzer') [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Theme (Moonlight Sonata Op.27 No.2) [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Sonata No.26 In E-flat Major Op.81a (Les Adieux),

Grand Trio In B-flat Major Op.11

Little Trio In B-flat Major (Woo39)

Trio In G Major Op.121a ,

Sonata In C Major Op.No.3

Sonata In E Flat Op.27 No.1

Sonata In G Major Op.31 No.1

Extrait De La Sonate Pathetique

Extrait De L'allegretto De La Sonate

Extrait De L'allegretto De La Sontae (Op.31 No.2)

Extrait De L'allegretto De La Symphonie

Extrait De L'allegro De La Sonate (Op.2 No.1)

Extrait Du 1er Mouvement De La Symphonie No.5

Extrait Du Concerto Pour Violon (Op.61 3er Mouvement)

Extrait Du Concerto Pour Violon Op.61 1er Mouvement)

Extrait Du Minuetto De La Sonate Op.22)

L'hymne A La Joie De La Symphonie No.9

Pour Elise

Rondu Du Concerto

Sonatine En Fa

Trois Sonates [Diabelli, Anton]

Symphony No.6 In F Op.68 'Pastorale' [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Symphony No.5 In C Minor Op.67 [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Minuet In G [Beethoven, Ludwig Van]

Creation's Hymn