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Piano sonatas written by Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 32 mature piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. (He also wrote 3 juvenile sonatas at the age of 13^[1] and one unfinished sonata, WoO.

51.) Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music.^[2]Hans von Bülow called them "The New Testament" of piano literature (Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier being "The Old Testament").^[3]

Beethoven's piano sonatas came to be seen as the first cycle of major piano pieces suited to both private and public performance.^[2] They form "a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall".^[2] The first person to play them all in a single concert cycle was Hans von Bülow; the first complete recording is Artur Schnabel's for the label His Master's Voice.

List of sonatas

Juvenilia