Ludwig van Beethoven

Am Klavier - Beethoven

> Includes, among others, the popular piece 'Für Elise'
> Works for the ideal introduction to Beethoven's piano music
> Ascending difficulty from easy to moderate

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas represent - according to a saying of Hans von Bülow - the 'New Testament' of music. Things are not quite so serious in our selection volume, because we also show the Bonn master from his 'worldly' side, with dances, bagatelles, the unusual character piece 'Lustig und traurig' and of course with the indestructible piece 'Für Elise'. In the process, the pieces increase in difficulty from easy to moderately difficult - as usual in our series 'At the Piano'.

But there is no need to be immediately awestruck by Beethoven's piano sonatas either: the very classical-looking G major Sonata (basically a sonatina) provides an ideal introduction to his varied sonata oeuvre. Contrast this with the 'piano poet' Beethoven with the 1st movement of the 'Moonlight' Sonata in C-sharp minor and the 'Funeral March' from the Sonata in A-flat major - visionary creations that already point far ahead into the Romantic period.