Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

Examine 32 piano sonatas with Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg as he combines music, anecdotes, and humor to highlight classic pieces.

Topics Covered:

• 1: Beethoven and the Piano
• 2: Homage to Mozart
• 3: The Grand Sonata, Part 1
• 4: The Grand Sonata, Part 2
• 5: Meaning and Metaphor
• 6: The Striking and Subversive, Op. 10 Continued
• 7: The Pathetique and the Sublime
• 8: The Opus 14 Sonatas
• 9: Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century
• 10: A Genre Redefined
• 11: Sonata quasi una fantasia-The Moonlight
• 12: Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude
• 13: The Tempest
• 14: A Quartet of Sonatas
• 15: The Waldstein and the Heroic Style
• 16: The Appassionata and the Heroic Style
• 17: They Deserve Better, Part 1
• 18: They Deserve Better, Part 2
• 19: The Farewell Sonata
• 20: Experiments in a Dark Time
• 21: The Hammerklavier, Part 1
• 22: The Hammerklavier, Part 2
• 23: In a World of His Own
• 24: Reconciliation