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•  Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

  The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, was completed in 1801. It is rumored to be dedicated to his pupil, 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, with whom Beethoven was, or had been, in love. The name "Moonlight" Sonata derives from an 1832 description of the first movement by music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, Op. 106, known as the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier, or more simply as the Hammerklavier, is widely considered to be one of the most important works of the composer's third period and one of the great piano sonatas. It is considered Beethoven's single most difficult composition for the piano, with the possible exception of the Diabelli Variations, and it remains one of the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, opus 57, colloquially known as the Appassionata, is considered one of the three great piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein sonata, opus 53 and Les Adieux, Opus 81a). It was composed during 1803, 1804, 1805, and perhaps 1806, and is dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna. Unlike the early Sonata No.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)

  The Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, is the last of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas. Along with Beethoven's 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 (1823) and his two collections of bagatelles—Opus 119 (1822) and Opus 126 (1824), this was one of Beethoven's last compositions for piano. The work was written between 1821 and 1822. Like other "late period" sonatas, it contains fugal elements and is technically very demanding.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)

  The Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3, is a sonata written for solo piano, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1796. It is dedicated to Joseph Haydn. It was written three years prior to his widely-known Pathétique Sonata in C minor. It consists of four movements and lasts about 24 minutes: Allegro con brio, common time Adagio, 2/4 in E major Scherzo: Allegro, 3/4 Allegro assai, 6/8 The sonata is often referred as Beethoven's first virtuosic piano sonata.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, was dedicated to the Countess Anne Margarete von Browne, and written in 1798. This makes it contemporary with his three string trios opus 9, the violin sonatas of opus 12 and the violin romance that became his opus 50 when later published. (The year also saw the premiere of a revised version of his second piano concerto, whose original form had been written and heard in 1795.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 12 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 in 1800–1801, around the same time as he completed his First Symphony. He dedicated the sonata to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, who had been his patron since 1792. Consisting of four movements, the sonata takes around 20 minutes to perform.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 16 (Beethoven)

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1, was composed between 1801 and 1802. Although it was numbered as the first piece in the trio of piano sonatas which were published as Opus 31 in 1803, Beethoven actually finished it after the Op. 31 No. 2, the Tempest Sonata. Due to his dissatisfaction with the 'classical' style of music, Beethoven pledged to 'take a new path' of musical composition and style.

  

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•  Piano Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

  The Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14, No. 1, is an early-period work by Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to Baroness Josefa von Braun. It was composed in 1798 and arranged - not transcribed - for string quartet by the composer in 1801, the result containing more quartet-like passagework and in the more comfortable key of F major.

  

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