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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

SONATAS Date published (composed)

WoO 47 3 Bonn sonatas, (E, F minor, D)1783

Op. 2 No. 1 F minor (f, F, f/F, f)allegro, adagio, menuet, presisim 1796

No. 2 A (A, D, A/a, A)allegro, largo appasionat, scherzo, rondo

No. 3 C (C, E, C, C)allegro, adagio, scherzo, allegro assai

Op. 7 E(E, C, E /e , E) allegro, largo, allegro, rondo 1797

Op. 10 No. 1 C minor (c, A, c) 1798

No. 2 F (F, f/D, F)allegro, allegretto, presto

No. 3 D (D, d, D, D) presto, largo, menuet, rondo

Op. 13 C minor, Pathtique (c, A, c)grave, adagio, rondo 1799

Op. 14 No. 1 E (E, e/C, E)allegro, allegretto, rondo 1799

No. 2 G (G, C, G)allegro, andante, scherzo

Op. 22 B(B, E, B/g, B)allegro, adagio,menuet, rondo1802

Op. 26 A(A, A, a/A, A)andante c v. scherzo, march f, alleg1802

Op. 27 No. 1 E (quasi una fant)(E/C, c, A, E) 1802

Andante, allegro, adagio, allegro

No. 2 C# minor, Moonlight (c#, D , c#)adagio, allegretto, presto agitato

Op. 28 D, Pastoral (D, d/D, D/b, D)allegro, andante, scherzo, rondo1802

Op. 31 No. 1 G (G, C, G)allegro, adagio, rondo 1803-04

No. 2 D minor, Tempest (d, B, d)largo, adagio, allegreto

No. 3 E (E, A, E, E)allegro, scherzo, menueto, presto

Op. 49 No. 1 G minor (g, G) andante, rondo 1805 (1798)

No. 2 G (G, G)allegro, tempo di menueto (1796)

Op. 53 C, Waldstein (C, F/C)allegr, adagio rondo 1805

Op. 54 F (F, F)allegreto 1806

Op. 57 F minor, Appassionataallegro, andante, alegro(f, D, f) 1807

Op. 78 F# (F#, F#)adagio, alegro 1810

Op. 79 G (G, g, G)presto tedesca, andante, vivace 1810

Op. 81a E, Les Adieux (E, c, E)adieux, absence, return 1811

Op. 90 E minor (e, E)german titles 1815

Op. 101 A (A, F, a/A)allegretto, vivace,adagio1817

Op. 106 B, Hammerklavier (B, B, f#, B)allegro, viv, adag,largo 1819

Op. 109 E (E, e, E)vivace, presistmo, german 1821

Op. 110 A(A, f, b /a/A/g/A)mod, allegro, adagio(fuga) 1822

Op. 111 C minor (c, C)maestoso, arietta 1823

Which sonatas have the fewest or the most movements?

Fewest: op.49,op. 54,op. 78,op.90, op.111

Most:op.2, op.7, op.22, op.26, op.28, op.106, op.110

Which keys are used most frequently (for a sonata as a whole, not necessarily individual

movements, although it probably amounts to the same thing).Eb, F, C/c

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Which keys are used most rarely? (Here individual movements or parts of movements do

count.) c#, f#,

Finally, for an extra point, in some of his later works Beethoven started using German-language

movement headings in lieu of or in addition to the standard Italian ones. In which sonatas are

these found?op90,3rdmov of op109