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Hey Phlebas
Topic Started: Mar 14 2010, 10:17 AM (148 Views)
jon-nyc
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You once posted a list of the LvB sonatas by order of difficulty (your view of course).

Any chance you have that laying around somewhere to repost?
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http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Forum/2/topic/002368/Number/0/site_id/1#import

Below is a ranking of teh thirty-two Beethoven Piano Sonatas by difficulty - the first on the list is the least difficult, and #32 on the list is the most difficult. It was based on a combination of my experience playing Beethoven, and some opinions among the piano playing world - e.g. Op49#2 is the easiest, and Op106 is the most difficult.
I am posting this ranking with the utmost humility, and it is in any no definitive.
Please let me know what you think of this ranking.

1 - Op 49#2
2 - Op 49#1
3 - Op 14#1
4 - Op 2#1
5 - Op 79
6 - Op 10#1
7 - Op 14#2
8 - Op 10#2
9 - Op 26
10 - Op 13 "Pathetique"
11 - Op 54
12 - Op 27#2 "Moonlight"
13 - Op 28 "Pastoral"
14 - Op 31#3
15 - Op 78
16 - Op 31#2 "Tempest"
17 - Op. 22
18 - Op 2#3
19 - Op 2#2
20 - Op 90
21 - Op 31#1
22 - Op 27#1
23 - Op 10#3
24 - Op 7
25 - Op 110
26 - Op 57 "Appasionata"
27 - Op 109
28 - Op 81a "Les Adieux"
29 - Op 53 "Waldstein"
30 - Op 111
31 - Op 101
32 - Op 106 "Hammerklavier"
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George K
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http://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=9769.msg100159#msg100159

I have a really old Shirmer sonata book it is also volume 1
here is the order they list from easiest to hardest.
They are also divided into three grades of difficulty

First grade
Op. 49 No.2, 1
Op.79
Op. 14 (both)
Op. 2 No 1

second grade
Op. 10 No 1
Op.13
Op. 10 No 3
Op. 10 No 2
Op. 28
Op. 2 No 3
Op. 26
Op. 31 No 3
Op. 22
Op. 7

third grade
Op. 27 No 2
Op. 27 No 1
Op. 31 No2
Op. 2 No 2
Op. 54
Op. 78
Op. 90
Op. 81
Op. 31 No. 1
Op.53
Op. 57
Op. 101
Op. 111
Op. 110
Op. 109
Op. 106
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Interesting comparing those two lists. In the second, I would question putting 10/3 ahead of 10/2, and so far down the list at all. I agree though that 111 is before 109 in difficulty.


Thanks for finding these, George.
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I'd probably change my list a little, but not a lot.

That Schirmer ranking is off the wall. Op 101, and 111 are much more difficult than 110.
Op 7 belongs on the "hardest" list. Aside from the Hammerklavier, it's the longest sonata, and there is a lot of difficult technique there.
27#1 is much harder than the Tempest, etc., etc.
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