Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 (Beethoven)

Like Mozart's, Beethoven's musical talent was recognized at a young age,[3] and these three piano sonatas give an early glimpse of the composer's abilities, as well as his boldness. Beethoven was writing in a form usually attempted by older, more mature composers,[4] as the sonata was a cornerstone of Classical piano literature. Since they were written at such an early age (and Beethoven himself did not assign them opus numbers), the works have historically been omitted from the canon of Beethoven's piano sonatas. However, Barry Cooper included the trio in his critical edition of the sonatas created for ABRSM, arguing that "A complete edition has to be complete, and if you ignore early works, you don't show the longer trajectory of the composer's development."[5] The inclusion of these three works raises Beethoven's total number of piano sonatas from 32 to 35.[lower-alpha 1][6]

• List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven

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Sources

• Cooper, Barry (2017). The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-4724-1432-8.
• Thayer, A. W. (1921). Krehbiel, Henry Edward (ed.). The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol 1. The Beethoven Association. OCLC 422583.

• Song, Moo Kyoung (2002). The Evolution of Sonata-Form Design in Ludwig van Beethoven's Early Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 to Opus 22 (PDF) (Ph. D. thesis). University of Texas at Austin.

• Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project