The apex of Beethoven's sonata-writing occurred around no. 25.

No. 21 is the Waldstein. No. 23 is the Appassionata. No. 26 is Les Adieux. No. 29 is the Hammerklavier. And no. 27 just sounds good 🙂

Beethoven had some very nice earlier sonatas (no. 1, no. 8, no. 14, no. 17, to name a few), but nothing matches the depth of the 20s.

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