Description: Beethoven's piano sonatas are rather like a library of classic piano music, ranging as the do from simply fromed, umpretentious pieces to mangificent works for the virtuoso. These piano sonatas are so perfect an exprssion of the composer's genious, of his profound and noble charcter, of his rich and very human personality, that it is no exagaeration to say that music would be emensely poorer without them. Published by Alfred. Edited by Maurice Hinson.