# Ludwig van Beethoven's most famous works

From Für Elise to the Ninth: the Beethoven works worth knowing, and those orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony play most often.

- 14 votes · 16 items
- Jan 29, 2025 · Johanna Winkler
- https://even.best/en/l/3182/ludwig-van-beethoven-s-most-famous-works

## Top 16

1. **Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1824. With the choral finale "Ode to Joy", today the anthem of Europe.
2. **Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1813. With the famous Allegretto.
3. **Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1808. The most famous opening motif in music; the Vienna Symphony's most performed Beethoven work.
4. **Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1808. Nature, a brook and a storm.
5. **Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1811. His last and grandest piano concerto.
6. **Fidelio** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1805, final version 1814. His only opera.
7. **Egmont Overture** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1810. Music for Goethe's play.
8. **String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1826. One of the late quartets, the one he himself rated highest.
9. **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1806. His only violin concerto.
10. **Waldstein Sonata** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1804. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major.
11. **Für Elise** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Around 1810. The composer's best-known piano piece.
12. **Moonlight Sonata** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1801. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor with its famous first movement.
13. **Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1804. Originally dedicated to Napoleon.
14. **Missa solemnis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1823. The great mass for Archduke Rudolph.
15. **Pathétique Sonata** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1798. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor.
16. **Appassionata** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1805. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, stormy and passionate.

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