Piano sonatas
Enjoy our sonata selection from the Bärenreiter piano catalogue:
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Sonata for Piano in A major K. 331 (300i)
with the Rondo "Alla Turca"
Published in 1784, Mozart’s Sonata in A major “for clavier solo”, with the famous Rondo “Alla Turca” finale, is one of the most popular works in the entire piano literature.
Now a newly resurfaced section of the autograph has prompted ...
Now a newly resurfaced section of the autograph has prompted ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9186
7.75 €
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Piano Sonatas, Volume 1
The present two-volume edition of Mozart’s piano sonatas includes in their authentic scoring all hitherto known works by Mozart in this genre; namely, eighteen works in the main corpus and a variety of alternate versions and uncompleted sonatas ...
Performance score, Urtext edition, Anthology
BA 4861
20.50 €
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Piano Sonatas, Volume 2
The present two-volume edition of Mozart’s piano sonatas includes in their authentic scoring all hitherto known works by Mozart in this genre. Volume 2 further includes the Sonata in B-flat major K. 570, issued in many editions as sonata for ...
Performance score, Urtext edition, Anthology
BA 4862
20.50 €
Haydn, Joseph
Late Piano Sonatas
Haydn’s late piano sonatas Hob. XVI:40–42 (1784) and Hob. XVI:48–52 (1788-95) reveal him to be a highly distinctive and consummate master in terms of form and expression. These technically brilliant works, the quintessence of his sonata output, ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 10804
24.50 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Three Sonatas for Piano in F minor, A major, C major op. 2
The frequently played Sonatas op. 2, Nos. 1-3, stem from the time when the young composer took lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to his teacher. After Beethoven’s three early sonatas which he wrote as a youth in Bonn, the ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 10859
25.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Grande Sonate for Pianoforte in E-flat major op. 7
If the nickname “Appassionata” was appropriate for one of Beethoven’s Sonatas, it would be for his E-flat major Sonata op. 7 rather than his famous work in F minor op. 57. This was Carl Czerny’s opinion who felt that op. 7 was written in a ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11802
7.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Three Sonatas for Pianoforte in C minor, F major, D major op. 10
The three popular sonatas op. 10 were written between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only shortly after Beethoven had completed his first fully-fledged sonatas op. 2. In the press they were announced as „3 very nice piano sonatas“ ...
Performance score, Urtext edition, Anthology
BA 10857
17.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Grande Sonate pathétique in C minor op. 13
Beethoven's Sonata in C minor was his first large work in this genre and a prime example of the late 18th century sonata. To this day it remains a source of fascination with its ardent pathos and emotional coherence. While first sketches probably ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10851
6.50 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Two Sonatas for Pianoforte in E major, G major op. 14
Composed at about the same time as the “Grande Sonate pathétique” op. 13 (BA 10851), the two op. 14 sonatas are among the easiest Beethoven ever wrote and an indispensable part of piano lessons. Their lyrical, almost chamber-like textures ...
Performance score, Urtext edition, Anthology
BA 10855
9.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Grande Sonate for Pianoforte in A-flat major op. 26 "Funeral March"
Beethoven’s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the Grande Sonate pathétique op. 13 ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11804
9.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata quasi una Fantasia for Pianoforte in E-flat major 27/1 / Sonata quasi una Fantasia for Pianoforte in C-sharp minor 27/1 "Moonlight Sonata"
At the dawn of the 19th century Beethoven struck out on new paths with his two opus 27 sonatas, each of which he called a “sonata quasi una fantasia”. Both of them, in particular Sonata no. 2 which was later nicknamed the “Moonlight Sonata”, ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 10853
11.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in D major op. 28 "Pastorale"
In October 1801 Beethoven offered a “grand sonata for the pianoforte” to the Viennese Kunst- und Industrie-Comptoir. His sonata in D major which was published in the following year has been inseparably connected with its nickname ever since ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11814
8.25 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Two Sonatas for Pianoforte in G minor, G major op. 49
One must look long and hard to find a piano pupil who hasn’t studied Beethoven’s two “sonate facile” op. 49.
They are not only relatively easy to play but highly lyrical and effective, ideally combining joy in music-making with a mastery ...
They are not only relatively easy to play but highly lyrical and effective, ideally combining joy in music-making with a mastery ...
Performance score, Urtext edition, Anthology
BA 10858
7.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Grande Sonate for Pianoforte in C major op. 53 "Waldstein"
Beethoven’s Grande Sonate in C major op. 53 (1803-04) marks his turn towards large-scale symphonic influenced piano works. Since its first publication this highly virtuosic piece, dedicated to Beethoven’s friend and patron Ferdinand, Count ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10856
9.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in F minor op. 57 "Appassionata"
The nickname ”Appassionata” was ascribed to the Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/1805) only in 1838, long after Beethoven’s death.
This Urtext edition is edited by the Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar. His editorial approach and principles ...
This Urtext edition is edited by the Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar. His editorial approach and principles ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10852
8.25 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in F-sharp major op. 78
It is hard to believe that this highly lyrical and moderately difficult sonata in the unusual key of F-sharp major was preceded by the supremely dramatic “Appassionata Sonata” in F minor op. 57 (BA 10852). Beethoven dedicated the sonata op. ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11807
10.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in G major op. 79 "Sonate facile"
In a letter to Breitkopf & Härtel Beethoven called his small sonata op. 79 “Sonate facile” or “Sonatina”. With its moderate technical difficulty, the work is very well suited for advanced beginners. We have to thank Muzio Clementi ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11815
6.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in E-flat major op. 81a "Les Adieux"
Lebewohl, Abwesenheit und Wiedersehn
Composed in 1809–10, Beethoven’s Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements “Das Lebewohl” (The Farewell), “Die Abwesenheit” (The Absence) and “Das Wiedersehn” (The Return) in reference to the hasty departure ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11808
7.95 €
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Sonata for Pianoforte in A major op. 101
The sonata op. 101 had an unusually long gestation. Beethoven’s earliest sketches date from 1815. The first publication of the “difficult to execute Sonata in A“, as the composer called it, appeared in 1817. Beethoven’s nationalistic feelings ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11811
7.50 €
Schubert, Franz
Sonata for Piano in C minor D 958
Schubert’s great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828 just a few months before his death, along with the late sonatas in A major (D 959) and B-flat major (D 960). Conceived as a triptych, they constitute his musical testament to the piano ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10869
12.95 €
Schubert, Franz
Sonata for Piano in A major D 959
Schubert composed his great Piano Sonata in A major just a few months before his untimely death in 1828. The balance this work strikes between lyrical melody, emotional intimacy and pianistic brilliance makes it a highlight among his sonatas, ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10861
11.95 €
Schubert, Franz
Sonata for Piano in B-flat major D 960
Schubert’s “Sonata in B-flat major” was composed in 1828 and is probably the last instrumental work which he completed. This Urtext edition edited by Walburga Litschauer contains an updated foreword (Ger/Eng) and a critical commentary (Eng) ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 10860
11.95 €
28.95 €
Kozeluch, Leopold
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard I-IV
Sonatas Nos. 1-50
The composer, pianist and piano teacher Leopold Koželuch (1747-1818) was one of the leading Czech musicians in 18th-century Vienna. His 50 sonatas for keyboard bear witness not only to the transition from the harpsichord or clavichord to the ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9515
140.00 €
Dušek, František Xaver
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard
Volume 2
The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) was one of the leading figures in the musical life of late 18th-century Prague. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and teacher whose pupils included Leopold Koželuch.
This ...
This ...
Performance score(s), Urtext edition
BA 11514
21.95 €
Liszt, Franz
Sonata for Piano in B minor
Liszt’s “Sonata in B minor”, which appeared in 1854, is of outstanding significance within the piano sonata genre. Bärenreiter presents this work – still a musical challenge for every pianist – in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition by ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9650
12.50 €
Schulhoff, Erwin
Sonatas for Piano no. 1-3
With his works of the 1920s – an original blend of traditional genres, rhythms inspired by jazz and dance music and judiciously expanded tonality – the German-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff captured the tenor of the times. This edition presents ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9560
36.95 €
Skrjabin, Aleksandr
Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume I
The piano sonatas are regarded as the central works of Alexander Skrjabin’s compositional output. No other composer after Beethoven reshaped this genre so radically, thereby reinvigorating the tradition of the sonata. Skrjabin’s desire not ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9616
35.95 €
Skrjabin, Aleksandr
Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume II
Piano works were at the centre of Alexander Skrjabin's compositional output. As an outstanding pianist, he began writing mainly miniatures for his instrument in the style of Romantic piano pieces.
But it was also Skrjabin who, ...
But it was also Skrjabin who, ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9617
27.95 €
Skrjabin, Aleksandr
Complete Piano Sonatas IV
Volume IV of Skrjabin’s “Complete Piano Sonatas” unites Sonata No. 9 op. 68 (nicknamed “Black Mass” – but not by Skrjabin) and Sonata No. 10 op. 70. These two works originated virtually at the same time, in 1911-13 and 1912-13, respectively. ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9619
30.95 €