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#1 ·
Vote for what in your opinion is the greatest piano sonata ever written!
 
#6 · (Edited)
Good alternatives. I was going to have the following as alternatives:

Beethoven:
No. 28, Op 101
No. 29, Op 106
No. 30, Op 109
No. 31, Op 110
No. 32, Op 111

Schubert:
No. 18, D 894
No. 19, D 958
No. 20, D 959
No. 21, D 960

Liszt:
B minor

Chopin:
No. 3, Op 58

Prokofiev:
No. 6, Op 82
No. 7, Op 83

Scriabin:
No. 5, Op 53

Other

Among those my preferred ones are Beethoven Op 106 and Op 110 and Schubert's last two.
 
#9 ·
Haydn - No. 62 in E-flat major
Mozart - K. 310 in A minor
Beethoven - Op. 27, no. 2 in C# minor ("Moonlight")
Beethoven - Op. 53 in C major ("Waldstein")
Beethoven - Op. 111 in C minor
Schubert - No. 27 in B-flat major
Chopin - No. 3 in B major
Liszt - B minor
Brahms - No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Dukas - in E minor
Scriabin - No. 5
Rachmaninov - No. 2 in B-flat minor
Berg - Op. 1
Prokofiev - No. 8
Dutilleux - Op. 1
 
#20 ·
Beethoven - Op. 27, no. 2 in C# minor ("Moonlight")
Beethoven - Op. 53 in C major ("Waldstein")
I am happy to see someone not only list Beethoven's late works. Although I'd not choose op. 27.

My list:

Beethoven
Opus 10: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor
Opus 13: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique")
Opus 57: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ("Appassionata")
Opus 81a: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major ("Les adieux/Das Lebewohl")

Hummel - Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 81

Liszt - B Minor
Chopin - B-flat Minor
Brahms - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Schumann - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

Ives - Concord
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 7
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 4
Boulez - Sonata no. 2
Carter - Piano Sonata
 
#18 ·
1) Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata #29 Op.106 known as the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier (1818)

2) Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata #5 Op.53 (1907)

3) Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B-Minor (1853)

4) Chopin - Sonata #3 in B-Minor Op. 58 (1844)

5) Charles-Valantin Alkan - Grand Sonata: The Four
Ages (1847)
 
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Today I also think that it's the Hammerklavier, although it's not my favorite. Some of the contenders for me now would be the other late Beethoven sonatas, the Appassionata, the Waldstein, Schubert's last sonatas, Chopin's #2 and Liszt's in B minor. There are important famous sonatas that were mentioned by other members and that I still need to explore though.
 
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