Beethoven's Piano Works

Beethoven's composing style is Classical (siumilar to Mozart's) in his early years (1790s) and progresses towards the Romantic into the 1820s).

Entries in Bold indicate his mast famous or most profound pieces.

Piano Concertos and other Piano Pieces with Orchestra:

WoO 4: Piano Concerto No. 0 in E-flat major (1784)
Opus 15: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (composed 1796–97)
Opus 19: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major (first two movements composed 1787–1789, finale composed in 1795)
Opus 37: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor (composed 1800–01)
Opus 56: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C major (1803)
Opus 58: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (composed 1805–06)
Opus 61a: Beethoven's arrangement of Opus 61 for piano
Opus 73: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major ("Emperor") (composed 1809–10)
Hess 13: Romance in E minor for 3 soloists and orchestra
Hess 15: Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major (unfinished – performing version completed by Nicholas Cook) (1815)

WoO 6: Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major (1793)


Chamber Music with Piano


Piano trios: 

The numbering of Beethoven's twelve piano trios is fairly arbitrary, and other than the three trios in Op. 1 as being Nos. 1 through 3, sources including both recordings and authoritative publications use other numberings from those shown here, or more frequently, none at all. It is more usual to identify a piano trio only by its catalog number and key.


Biamonti 637: Piano Trio in F minor (incomplete sketches, 1815)
Hess 47: Allegro con brio in E-flat major for Piano Trio (arrangement of Op. 3)
Hess 48: Allegretto in E-flat major for Piano Trio (c. 1790–1792)
WoO 38: Piano Trio in E-flat major (c. 1790–1791)
WoO 39: Allegretto in B-flat major for Piano Trio (1812)
Opus 1: Three Piano Trios (composed 1795; published 1795)
No. 1: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat major
No. 2: Piano Trio No. 2 in G major
No. 3: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor
Opus 11: Piano Trio [No. 4](?) in B-flat major ("Gassenhauer") (1797)
Opus 44: Variations on an original theme in E-flat major (composed 1792; published 1804)
Opus 63: Piano Trio in E-flat major (1806) (arrangement of Op. 4)
Opus 70: Two Piano Trios (1808)
No. 1: Piano Trio [No. 5](?) in D major ("Ghost")
No. 2: Piano Trio [No. 6](?) in E-flat major
Opus 97: Piano Trio [No. 7](?) in B-flat major ("Archduke") (1811)
Opus 121a: Kakadu Variations, for Piano Trio (Variations on "Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu") (1803)


Piano quartets:

WoO 36: 3 Piano Quartets (1785)
No. 1 in E-flat major
No. 2 in D major
No. 3 in C major
Opus 16/b: Piano Quartet in E-flat (1797) (arrangement of Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 16)


Sonatas for solo instrument and piano:

Violin sonatas:

Opus 12: Three Violin Sonatas (1798)
No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major
No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major
No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major
Opus 23: Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor (1801)
Opus 24: Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major ("Spring") (1801)
Opus 30: Three Violin Sonatas (1803)
No. 1: Violin Sonata No. 6 in A major
No. 2: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor
No. 3: Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major
Opus 47: Violin Sonata No. 9 in A minor [often stated as A major] ("Kreutzer") (1803)
Opus 96: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major ("The Cockcrow") (1812)

Cello sonatas:

Opus 5: Two Cello Sonatas (1796)
No. 1: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major
No. 2: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor
Opus 69: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major (1808)
Opus 102: Two Cello Sonatas (1815)
        No. 1: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major
        No. 2: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major

Horn sonata:

Opus 17: Horn Sonata in F major (1800)

Other:

Anh 4: Sonata for Flute and Piano in B-flat major (c. 1790–92)
Opus 42: Notturno for Viola and Piano in D major (1803)
WoO 45: 12 Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes" from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus for cello and piano (1796)


Solo piano music

In addition to the 32 celebrated sonatas, Beethoven's work for solo piano includes many one-movement pieces, more than twenty sets of variations, most unpublished in his lifetime or published without opus number, and over thirty bagatelles, including the well-known "Für Elise".

Piano sonatas:

WoO 47 Three early "Kurfürstensonatas" (1782–3)
No. 1: WoO 47, #1 in E-flat major
No. 2: WoO 47, #2 in F minor
No. 3: WoO 47, #3 in D major
Opus 2: Three Piano Sonatas (1795)
No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor
No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major
No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major
Opus 7: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major ("Grand Sonata") (1797)
Opus 10: Three Piano Sonatas (1798)
No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major
No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major
Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique") (1798)
Opus 14: Two Piano Sonatas (1799)
No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major (also arranged by the composer for String Quartet in F major (H 34) in 1801)
No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 10 in G major
Opus 22: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major (1800)
Opus 26: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major ("Funeral March") (1801)
Opus 27: 'Sonata quasi una fantasia', Two Piano Sonatas (1801)
     No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major
     No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor ("Moonlight")
Opus 28: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major ("Pastoral") (1801)
Opus 31: Three Piano Sonatas (1802)
     No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major
     No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor ("Tempest")
     No. 3: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major ("The Hunt")
Opus 49: Two Piano Sonatas (between 1795 and 1798)
    No. 1: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor
    No. 2: Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major
Opus 53: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ("Waldstein") (1803)
WoO 57: Andante favori – Original middle movement of the "Waldstein" sonata (1804)
Opus 54: Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major (1804)
Opus 57: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata") (1805)
Opus 78: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major ("À Thérèse") (1809)
Opus 79: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major (1809)
Opus 81a: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major ("Les adieux/Das Lebewohl") (1810)
Opus 90: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor (1814)

The "Late" Sonatas: 

    Opus 101: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major (1816)
    Opus 106: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major ("Hammerklavier") (1819)
    Opus 109: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major (1820)
    Opus 110: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major (1821)
    Opus 111: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor (1822)

Variations:

32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80
Opus 34: Six variations on a theme in F major (1802)
Opus 35: Fifteen variations and a fugue on an original theme in E-flat major ("Eroica Variations") (1802)
Opus 76: Six variations on an original theme (the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens) in D major (1809)
Opus 120: Thirty-three variations on a waltz by Diabelli in C major ("Diabelli Variations") (1823)
WoO 63: Nine variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler (1782)
WoO 64: Six variations on a Swiss song for piano or harp
WoO 65: Twenty-four variations for piano on Vincenzo Righini's aria "Vieni amore"[4]
WoO 66: Thirteen variations for piano on the aria "Es war einmal ein alter Mann" from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's opera Das rote Käppchen
WoO 68: Twelve variations for piano on the "Menuet a la Vigano" from Jakob Haibel's ballet La nozza disturbate
WoO 69: Nine variations for piano on "Quant'e piu bello" from Giovanni Paisiello's opera La Molinara
WoO 70: Six variations for piano on "Nel cor più non mi sento" from Giovanni Paisiello's opera La Molinara
WoO 71: Twelve variations for piano on the Russian dance from Paul Wranitzky's ballet Das Waldmädchen
WoO 72: Eight variations for piano on "Une fièvre brûlante" from André Grétry's opera Richard Coeur-de-lion
WoO 73: Ten variations for piano on "La stessa, la stessissima" from Antonio Salieri's opera Falstaff
WoO 75: Seven variations for piano on "Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen" from Peter Winter's opera Das unterbrochene Opferfest
WoO 76: Eight variations for piano on "Tändeln und scherzen" from Franz Xaver Süssmayr's opera Soliman II
WoO 77: Six easy variations on an original theme for piano
WoO 78: Seven variations for piano on "God Save the King"
WoO 79: Five variations for piano on "Rule, Britannia!"
WoO 80: Thirty-two variations on an original theme in C minor (1806)

Bagatelles:

Opus 33: Seven Bagatelles (1802)
Opus 119: Eleven new Bagatelles (1822)
Opus 126: Six Bagatelles (1823)
WoO 52: Presto (Bagatelle) for piano in C minor (1795, rev. 1798 and 1822)
WoO 53: Allegretto (Bagatelle) for piano in C minor (1796–97)
WoO 54: Lustig-Traurig (Bagatelle) for piano in C major (1802)
WoO 56: Allegretto (Bagatelle) for piano in C major (1803, rev. 1822)
WoO 59: Poco moto (Bagatelle) in A minor ("Für Elise") (c. 1810)
WoO 60: Ziemlich lebhaft (Bagatelle) for piano in B-flat major (1818)

Other solo piano works:
           

Opus 39: Two Preludes through all twelve major keys (1789)
Opus 51: Two Rondos (1797)
No. 1: Rondo in C major
No. 2: Rondo in G major
WoO 55: Prelude in F minor (1803)
Opus 77: Fantasia in G minor (1809)
Opus 89: Polonaise (1814)
Opus 129: Rondo a capriccio in G major ("Rage over a lost penny") (1795)