How many piano sonatas did Beethoven compose?

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. During this period he wrote 32 piano works.

(As a young boy, he had composed 3 piano sonatas that were published when he was 13. After his death one more, but incomplete piano sonata was found among his notes, also from his childhood. These 3+1 juvenile works are not included in the 32.)

List of Beethoven’s piano sonatas

Juvenilia
WoO 47: Three Piano Sonatas (composed 1782–3, published 1783)
Piano Sonata in E-flat major
Piano Sonata in F minor
Piano Sonata in D major

Early sonatas
Opus 2: Three Piano Sonatas (1795)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor
Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major

Opus 49: Two Piano Sonatas (composed 1795–6, published 1805)
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major

Opus 7: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major (“Grand Sonata”) (1797)

Opus 10: Three Piano Sonatas (1798)
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major

Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (“Pathétique”) (1798)

Opus 14: Two Piano Sonatas (1799)
Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major
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 (1801)

Opus 27: Two Piano Sonatas (1801)
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major ‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor ‘Sonata quasi una fantasia’ (“Moonlight”)

Opus 28: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major (“Pastoral”) (1801)

Middle sonatas
Opus 31: Three Piano Sonatas (1802)
Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor (“Tempest”)
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat major (“The Hunt”)

Opus 53: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major (“Waldstein”) (1804)
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 (“A Thérèse”) (1809)

Opus 79: Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major (“Cuckoo”) (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)

 

Late sonatas
Opus 101: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major (1816)

Opus 106: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major (“Hammerklavier”) (1818)

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)


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