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have suggested a ‘fourth’ period to include Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations and some
of the late Bagatelles.

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Piano sonatas

1. F minor opus 2 no. 1


2. A major opus 2 no. 2


3. C major opus 2 no. 3


4. E flat major opus 7


5. C minor opus 10 no. 1


6. F major opus 10 no. 2


7. D major opus 10 no. 3


8. C minor opus 13 ‘Pathetique’


9. E major opus 14. No. 1


10. G major opus 14 no. 2


11. B flat major opus 22


12. A flat major opus 26


13. E flat major opus 27 no. 1


14. C sharp minor opus 27 no. 2 ‘Moonlight’


15. D major opus 28 ‘Pastorale’


16. G major opus 31 no. 1


17. D minor opus 31 no. 2 ‘Tempest’


18. E flat major opus 31 no. 3


19. G minor opus 49 no. 1


20. G major opus 49 no. 2


21. C major opus 53 ‘Waldstein’


22. F major opus 54


23. F minor opus 57 ‘Appassionata’


24. F sharp major opus 78 ‘A Therèse’


25. G major opus 79


26. E flat mjor opus 81a ‘Les Adieux’


27. E minor opus 90


28. A major opus 101


29. B flat major opus 106 ‘Hammerklavier’


30. E major opus 109


31. A flat major opus 110


32. C minor opus111

Beethoven composed thirty-two piano sonatas. In addition, there were three juvenile
piano sonatas dating from Beethoven’s Bonn days.

‘For Beethoven, the sonata form is not a scheme that can be used in caprice one day and
abandoned the next. This form dominates everything he imagines and composes; it is the