Beethoven’s piano sonatas might be the greatest collection of piano literature ever witten. Even if it isn’t, it is in the pantheon of piano works along with Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, Chopin’s Preludes and Etudes and the various sets of piano works Liszt wrote. In the following days I’ll upload all of the sonatas and likely put up a broad formal analysis of the Pathetique’s first movement. Here are the first 8: