Piano Sonata No. 28 (Beethoven)

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Piano Sonata
No. 28
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Opening of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
Key	A major
Opus	101
Composed	1816 (1816)
Dedication	Dorothea von Ertmann
Published	1817
Movements	4

The Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1816 and published in 1817. Dedicated to the pianist Baroness Dorothea Ertmann, née Graumen, it is considered the first of the composer's late piano sonatas.

This sonata marks the beginning of what is generally regarded as Beethoven's final period, where the forms are more complex, ideas more wide-ranging, textures more polyphonic, and the treatment of the themes and motifs even more sophisticated than before. Op. 101 well exemplified this new style, and Beethoven exploits the newly expanded keyboard compass of the day.