List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven

The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827. Beethoven composed works in all the main genres of classical music, including symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas and opera. His compositions range from solo works to those requiring a large orchestra and chorus.
Beethoven straddled both the Classical and Romantic periods, working in genres associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his teacher Joseph Haydn, such as the piano concerto, string quartet and symphony, while on the other hand providing the groundwork for other Romantic composers, such as Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt, with programmatic works such as his Pastoral Symphony and Piano Sonata "Les Adieux". Beethoven's work is typically divided into three periods: the "Early" period, where he composed in the "Viennese" style; the "Middle" or "Heroic" period, where his work is characterised by struggle and heroism, such as in the Eroica Symphony, the Fifth Symphony, the Appassionata Sonata and in his sole opera Fidelio; and the "Late" period, marked by intense personal expression and an emotional and intellectual profundity. Although his output greatly diminished in his later years, this period saw the composition of masterpieces such as the late string quartets, the final five piano sonatas, the Diabelli Variations, the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony.
Beethoven's works are classified by both genre and various numbering systems. The best-known numbering system for Beethoven's works is that by opus number, assigned by Beethoven's publishers during his lifetime. Only 172 of Beethoven's works have opus numbers, divided among 138 opus numbers. Many works that were unpublished or published without opus numbers have been assigned one of "WoO", Hess or Biamonti numbers. For example, the short piano piece "Für Elise" is more fully known as the "Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 ". Some works are also commonly referred to by their nicknames, such as the Kreutzer Violin Sonata, or the Archduke Piano Trio.
Works are also often identified by their number within their genre. For example, the 14th string quartet, published as Opus 131, may be referenced either as "String Quartet No. 14" or "the Opus 131 String Quartet". The listings below include all of these relevant identifiers. While other catalogues of Beethoven's works exist, the numbers here represent the most commonly used.

List of works by genre

Beethoven's works are published in several editions, the first of these was Ludwig van Beethovens Werke: Vollständige kritisch durchgesehene überall berechtigte Ausgabe published between 1862 and 1865 with a supplemental volume in 1888 by Breitkopf & Härtel, commonly known as the "Beethoven Gesamtausgabe" . While this was a landmark achievement at the time, the limitations of this edition soon became apparent. Between 1959 and 1971 Willy Hess prepared a supplemental edition, Beethoven: Sämtliche Werke: Supplemente zur Gesamtausgabe, containing works that were not in the Gesamtausgabe.
Since 1961 the Beethoven Archive has been publishing a new scholarly–critical Complete Edition of Beethoven's works, Beethoven: Werke: neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke . However, only 42 of the projected 56 volumes have been published so far. As this edition has not been published in full there are works without an NA designation.
Legend for publications – p: parts s: full score vs: vocal score

Orchestral music

Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, nine concertos, and a variety of other orchestral music, ranging from overtures and incidental music for theatrical productions to other miscellaneous "occasional" works, written for a particular occasion. Of the concertos, seven are widely known ; the other two are an early piano concerto and an arrangement of the Violin Concerto for piano and orchestra.

Symphonies

No.	Title, key	Composition; first performance	Publication	Dedication, remarks	GA	NA
Op. 21	Symphony No. 1 in C major	1799–2 April 1800	p: Leipzig 1801	Baron Gottfried van Swieten	i/1	i/1
Op. 36	Symphony No. 2 in D major	1801–5 April 1803	p: Vienna, 1804; for piano, violin, cello: Vienna, 1805	Prince Karl von Lichnowsky	i/2	i/1
Op. 55	Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" in E major	1803–7 April 1805	p: Vienna, 1806	Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz	i/3	i/2
Op. 60	Symphony No. 4 in B major	1806–March 1807	p: Vienna, 1808	Count Franz von Oppersdorff	i/4	i/2
Op. 67	Symphony No. 5 "Fate" in C minor	1807– 22 December 1808	p: Leipzig, 1809	Prince Lobkowitz and Count Andreas Razumovsky	i/5	i/3
Op. 68	Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" in F major	1808–22 December 1808	p: Leipzig, 1809	Prince Lobkowitz and Count Razumovsky	i/6	i/3
Op. 92	Symphony No. 7 in A major	1811–8 December 1813	s, p: Vienna, 1816	Count Moritz von Fries	i/7
Op. 93	Symphony No. 8 in F major	1812–27 February 1814	s, p: Vienna, 1817	shortened version of end of 1st movt, HS iv	i/8
Op. 125	Symphony No. 9 "Choral" in D minor	1822–7 May 1824	s, p: Mainz, 1826	Frederick William III of Prussia	i/9	i/5

Beethoven is believed to have intended to write a Tenth Symphony in the last year of his life; a performing version of possible sketches was assembled by Barry Cooper.

Concertos

No.	Title, key	Composition, first performance	Publication	Dedication, remarks	GA	NA
WoO 4	Piano Concerto No. 0 in E major	1784	s: GA	survives only in pf score	xxv/310	iii/5
WoO 5	Violin Concerto in C major,	1790–1792	Vienna, 1879	part of 1st movt only; 1st edn ded. Gerhard von Breuning	HS iii
	Oboe Concerto in F major,	1792–1793?		sent to Bonn from Vienna in late 1793; a few sketches survive
Op. 19	Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major	begun, rev. 1794–1829	p: Leipzig, 1801	Carl Nicklas von Nickelsberg; score frag. rejected from early version, HS iii	ix/66	iii/2
	cadenza for first movement	1809	GA		ix/70a	vii/7
Op. 15	Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major	18 December 1795 rev. 1800	p: Vienna, 1801	Princess Barbara Odescalchi	ix/65	iii/2
	3 cadenzas for first movement	1809	GA		ix/70a	vii/7
Op. 37	Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor	1800–5 April 1803?	p: Vienna, 1804	Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia	ix/67	iii/2
	cadenza for first movement	1809	GA		ix/70a	vii/7
Op. 56	Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major	1804–May 1808	p: Vienna, 1807	Prince Lobkowitz	ix/70	iii/1
Op. 58	Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major	1804–22 December 1808	p: Vienna, 1808	Archduke Rudolph of Austria	ix/68	iii/3
	2 cadenzas for first movement, cadenza for finale	1809?	GA		ix/70a	vii/7
	cadenza for first movement, 2 cadenzas for finale	1809?	NA		HSx	vii/7
Op. 61	Violin Concerto in D major	23 December 1806	p: Vienna, 1808; London, 1810	Stephan von Breuning	iv/29; HSx	iii/4
Op. 61a	Beethoven's arrangement of Opus 61 for Piano in D major	1807	p: Vienna, 1808; London, 1810	Julie von Breuning	ix/73	iii/5
	Cadenza for first movement, cadenza for finale	1809?	GA		ix/70a	vii/7
	2 cadenzas for finale	1809?	NA		HSx	vii/7
Op. 73	Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" in E major	1809–28 November 1811	p: London, 1810; Leipzig, 1811	Archduke Rudolph	ix/69	iii/3
	Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major,	1814–1815		unfinished

Other works for soloist and orchestra

No.	Title, key	Composition, first performance	Publication	Dedication, remarks	GA	NA
	Romance Cantabile	1786?	Wiesbaden, 1952	intended as slow movement of larger work	HS iii
WoO 6	Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B major	1793	p: Vienna, 1829	orig. finale of op.19; solo part completed by Carl Czerny for 1st ed.	ix/72; HS iii	iii/5
Op. 50	Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major	1798–November 1798?	p: Vienna, 1805		iv/31	iii/4
Op. 40	Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G major	1801–1802	p: Leipzig, 1803		iv/30	iii/4
	Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 3,	1816		reported by W. Altmann in Preface to the Steiner edition of 1816 of the Violin Concerts
Op. 80	Choral Fantasy in C minor	22 December 1808, rev. 1809	p: London, 1810; Leipzig, 1811	Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria;	HS xix/71	x/2