Home / Music / Beethoven's Hammerklavier held the title for longest standard piano sonataMusic linernotes album music ludwig-van-beethovenBeethoven's Hammerklavier held the title for longest standard piano sonataA typical performance of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier runs 45 to 50 minutes. It held the title of longest piano sonata in the standard repertoire until Sorabji came along. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBeethoven's Op. 135 is the lightest of the late quartets — short, Classical, almost playfulBeethoven's First Symphony nods to Haydn and Mozart but the sforzandi are all his ownBeethoven's String Quartet No. 14 has seven connected movementsBeethoven's String Quartet No. 15 has five movementsSchubert wondered what was left to write after hearing Beethoven's Op. 131ExploreKarajan's 1962 Beethoven cycle: 1 million sets sold in a decade, still the benchmarkThe Head and the Heart's self-released debut: 10,000 copies by word of mouth, then PlatinumThe Joshua Tree sold 25 million copies and won Album of the YearThe Stranger became Columbia Records' best-selling album, with 10 million units worldwideAlèmyé reached global audiences through the Éthiopiques reissue seriesPrevious Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata culminated his late piano periodNext Beethoven's Grosse Fuge was booted from its own quartet by the publisher