Beethoven, Ludwig van

Bonn 1770 - Vienna 1827

Piano Sonatas

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• Piano
  • The Sonatas
  • The Variations
  • The Liszt' Transcriptions
• Organ
• Chamber music
• Symphonies
• Concertos
• Operas and Ouvertures
• Masses
• Counterpoints and Fugues
  • Canons
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  • Fragmented Fugues
• Other
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• Main page

• Biography (large)
  • 1. Family background and childhood.
  • 2. Youth.
  • 3. 1792--5.
  • 4. 1796--1800.
  • 5. 1801--2: deafness.
  • 6. 1803--8.
  • 7. 1809--12.
  • 8. 1813--21.
  • 9. 1822--4.
  • 10. 1824--7.
  • 11. The 'three periods'.
  • 12. Music of the Bonn period.
  • 13. Music of the early Vienna period.
  • 14. The symphonic ideal.
  • 15. Middle-period works.
  • 16. Late-period style.
  • 17. Late-period works.
  • 18. Personal characteristics.
  • 19. Posthumous influence and reception.

• Bibliography

• Works [list of only]

Live performance:

• Sonate no. 8 in c minor, op.  13 'Pathetique' (1798-99)
• MIDI • 1. Grave - Allegro molto e con brio
• MIDI • 2. Adagio cantabile
• MIDI • 3. Rondo: Allegro

 

Live (quality) by © Katsuhiro Oguri

 

• Sonate no. 14 in c sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 'Moonlight' (1801)
• MIDI • 1. Adagio sostenuto, 2. Allegretto
• MIDI • 1. Adagio sostenuto, 2. Allegretto *
• MIDI • 3. Presto con fuoco

 

Duo-Art (live) recording, piano: Josef Hofmann
* Ampico (live) recording, piano: Ignaz Jan Paderewski

 

• MIDI • Sonate no. 14 in c sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 'Moonlight' (1801)

 

Live (quality) by © Katsuhiro Oguri

 

• Sonate no. 23 in f minor, op. 57 'Appassionata' (1804-05)
• MIDI • 1. Allegro assai
• MIDI • 2. Andante con moto, 3. Allegro ma non troppo

 

Duo-Art (live) recording, piano: Harold Bauer

 

• MIDI • Sonate no. 24 in F sharp major, op. 78 'For Therese' (1809)

 

Ampico (live) recording, piano: Frederic Lamond

Sequences:

Complete collection by Bunji Hisamori:

• MIDI • Sonate no. 1 in f minor, op. 2 no. 1 (1794-95)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 2 in c sharp minor, op. 2 no. 2 (1794-95)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 3 in C major, op. 2 no. 3 (1794-95)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 4 in E flat major, op. 7 (1796-97)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 5 in c minor, op. 10 no. 1 (1796-98)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 6 in F major, op. 10 no. 2 (1796-98)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 7 in D major, op. 10 no. 3 (1796-98)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 8 in c minor, op. 13 'Pathetique' (1798-99)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 9 in E major, op. 14 no. 1 (1798-99)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 10 in G major, op. 14 no. 2 (1798-99)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 11 in B flat major, op. 22 (1799-1800)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 12 in A flat major, op. 26 (1800-01)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 13 in E flat major, op. 27 no. 1 (1801)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 14 in c sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 'Moonlight' (1801)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 15 in D major, op. 28 'Pastoral' (1801)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 16 in G major, op. 31 no. 1 (1802)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 17 in d minor, op. 31 no. 2 'Tempest' (1802)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 18 in E flat major, op. 31 no. 3 'The Hunt' (1802)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 19 in g minor, op. 49 no. 1 (1788, 1796)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 20 in G major, op. 49 no. 2 (1788, 1796)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 21 in C major, op. 53 'Waldstein' (1803-04)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 22 in F major, op. 54 (1804)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 23 in f minor, op. 57 'Appassionata' (1804-05)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 24 in F sharp major, op. 78 'For Therese' (1809)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 25 in G major, op. 79 (1809)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 26 in E flat major, op. 81a 'Les Adieux' (1809-10)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 27 in e minor, op. 90 (1814)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 28 in A major, op. 101 (1815-16)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 29 in B flat major, op. 106 'Hammerklavier' (1817-19)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 30 in E major, op. 109 (1820)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 31 in A flat major, op. 110 (1821)
• MIDI • Sonate no. 32 in c minor, op. 111 (1820-22)

Sequences by © Bunji Hisamori

 

Other sequences of the Sonatas:

• Sonate no. 23 in f minor, op. 57 'Appassionata' (1804-05)
• MIDI • 1. Allegro assai
• MIDI • 2. Andante con moto - 3. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

Sequences by © Dario Galimberti

 

Sonatas for piano four-hands:

• MIDI • Sonate for piano in D major, op.  6 (1796)

Sequences by © Bunji Hisamori

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