What are the top ten beethoven compositions?

Question

What are the top ten beethoven compositions?

Answer 1

Any of the "Late String Quartets"

Any of the "Rasumovsky" Quartets

Diabelli Variations

Any of the Late Piano Sonatas

Any of the Middle Piano Sonatas

Symphonies 3,5,6,7,9 (the others aren't bad either!)

Fidelio

Orchestral Overtures

Violin Concerto

The "Ghost" Trio



(there are plenty of other masterpieces that I haven't mentioned!)

Answer 2

I think it depends on personal preference. Like if you ask someone who doesn't know too much about him, they'll say the basics like Symphony No.5 & 9 and like Moonlight Sonata. Because those are the overplayed ones that come out through pop culture.

But really he had so many more brilliant works that are quite underrated. So I don't think there is a set top ten because it just depends on what each individual likes and what they have been exposed to.

Answer 3

Why 10? Why not 100, or even a 1,000?



He was a very prolific composer.



Here are a few of what I think would be considered to be his most well-known and/or popular compositions:



Moonlight Sonata

5th Symphony

9th Symphony



You can listen to many of them on You Tube; the 1st movement of his "5th Symphony" (the GREAT Arturo Toscanini): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K_IuBsRM4



Alberich