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Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas The Beethoven Sonatas have been called the New Testament of the piano repertoire (the old being Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier).
Spanning the length of his compositional career, they illustrate Beethoven’s musical development, and show both the piano as an instrument and the piano sonata as a genre undergoing an extraordinary evolution.
Unsurprisingly, the most famous sonatas are those with nicknames, mostly invented by other people than the composer: Pathétique, the earliest of the "name" sonatas was a complete shock to the musical world with the unprecedented violence of its expression.
Moonlight derives its name from the critic Ludwig Rellstab’s likening of the first movement to moonlight as reflected on the surface of Lake Lucerne. When asked about the meaning of the Sonata Op. 31 no 2, Beethoven replied: "Read Shakespeare’s Tempest".
The gigantic Hammerklavier Sonata, simply named after the German word for piano, occupies a pivotal position in Beethovens oevre: this work begins the transcendent spiritual odyssey of Beethoven’s late period.
The last three sonatas, with opus numbers 109-111 are some of his most forward-looking and experimental works.
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 The most powerful Beethoven piano sonata
August 05, 2009, 04:04:44 PM by mcdiddy1
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What do you feel is the most powerful Beethoven Piano Sonata ?
For me I love the grand Waldstein Piano Sonata because it is very lyrical nad is swarming with enthusiastic themes. I also love the great strenght and energy it requires. I also love movement three of the Moonlight sonata which i find is very exciting and melancoly
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Beethoven, Mozart or Schubert?
June 13, 2009, 08:09:42 AM by kaii
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I'm preparing for an exam soon, and my teacher and I are deciding on my repertoire...
She gave me a selection of pieces to choose from for 'List B' in the exam (I take AMEB examinations), and I'm having trouble picking one because I really don't have a very broad musical knowledge 
So here are the pieces that she told me to have a look at (I have recordings and the sheet music for them as well). I was hoping that if you know them/have played them before, could you please give some of your thoughts on the piece? 
Beethoven Sonatas
- Op. 2 No. 2 - 4th Movement
- Op. 7 - 4th Movement
- Op. 10 No. 2 - 1st Movement
- Op. 22 - 1st Movement OR 4th Movement
- Op. 28 - 1st Movement
- Op. 31 No. 1 - 1st Movement
- Op. 78 - 1st Movement
Mozart
- K 284 (Dmajor) - 1st Movement OR last movement
- K 310 - 1st Movement
- K 331 - 1st Movement
- K 332 - 3rd Movement
- K 494 - Rondo
Schubert
- D 784 - Op. 143 - 3rd Movement
Thanks in advance 
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On Beethoven Sonatas
April 26, 2009, 05:39:45 PM by tengstrand
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Hello everyone,
in about a year I'm doing the complete set of Beethoven sonatas in a few places. Having audiences ask for a good reference to learn some more about the sonatas, I tried finding stuff on the internet. It was not too easy, the best was Schiff's series on BBC on the sonatas, but I found it slightly...uninspiring perhaps, but maybe it was just that it's very difficult to speak to an audience who has very different pre-knowledge. However popular you want to make the talking, you just can't explain much to someone who doesn't know sonata form, for example.
Other than that, I found basically nada that was serious. The Wikipedia entry on the first sonata for example, is stunningly pointless.
I have recently been given concerts with a Swedish rock star, an extremely creative and actually classical-oriented guy. All of a sudden I found myself having plenty of new listeners who got hooked on classical music. However, many of them think that they "lack the musical intelligence" to follow a Beethoven sonata, for example. That's baloney, so I decided to start writing a blog where I write about the sonatas.
Now, as I started, I realized there were many questions about how to play where I was not sure. So I added chapters called "On playing..." where I play some passages from the recording sessions and my idea is that anyone who has an opinion (and on Beethoven sonatas there are many...) can just add this in a comment.
Finally, I must add that I was surprised how much writing down thoughts on my playing made me think one step further. If it makes the playing better, I can't know, but I would recommend to anyone to now and then sit down and formulate in words what they want to do with a piece.
And so here it is:
http://beethovensonatas.wordpress.com/
Help me out, comment away...sitting with these sonatas all alone can make you go slightly crazy...
Thanks,
Per
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