Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in B♭ major, Op. 22, was composed in 1800, and published two years later. Beethoven regarded it as the best of his early sonatas/
This sonata has four movements:
Allegro con brio
Adagio con molto espressione
Menuetto
Rondo: Allegretto
Listen now as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli performs this sonata for you. He is considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. According to The New York Times, he was perhaps the most reclusive, enigmatic and obsessive among the handful of the world’s legendary pianists.
