beethoven sonata difficulties

[lisztomania]

can you tell me the most difficult aspects of these listed sonatas? also tell which are hardest and easiest
Pathetique opus 13
Opus 27 no 1 (not moonlight)
les audiex opus 81a
ive heard the pathetique to be pretty easy in comparison. 
for opus 27 ppl have told me the fourth movement can be a very difficult piece along with the first movement being a very difficult piece to pull off well.
for opus 81a ive heard that the 3rd movement is very fast

[j_menz]

Go off and try them and make up your own mind! 

[nanabush]

The Op 27 has four movements, so it's a slightly 'larger scale' sonata in scope than some of his other ones... the fourth movement (like many many many pieces) has some tricky fingerwork, and you need good fingering to play it 

It's a really pleasant piece; one of my friends at University played it, and it's just refreshing hearing it.  It's not all stormy and crazy like a lot of Beethoven's other works, but the second movement has a bit of an intensity to it.

Don't think of difficulty as a one-dimensional thing.  Find a group of pieces you LIKE, try them out, make your own difficulty list from your findings.

For example, I found the second movement of the Op.78 Sonata more 'difficult' than the 3rd movement of the Appassionata...it's something other people cannot disagree with, because it is from my own experience.  I can't disagree with someone who says that Appassionata 3 was tougher than 78/2, because maybe they just had a harder time with certain passages.

There are some clear groups you can't avoid.  The Op.101+ ones are all very intense, have contrapuntal writing, are LONG, etc.

[lisztomania]

ok, but how hard is opus 27 no 1 overall. like out of ten or something

[liszt1022]

bacon/10

Just read through parts of each and see what you think.

[mjames]

ok, but how hard is opus 27 no 1 overall. like out of ten or something

Play it.

[j_menz]

bacon/10

Oh come on - it's at least prosciutto.