Who has more best-known compositions, Hans Pfitzner or Ludwig van Beethoven?
Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera "Palestrina", loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven) Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein , is one of the three most notable sonatas of his middle period (the other two being the "Appassionata", Op. 57, and "Les Adieux", Op. 81a). Completed in summer 1804 and surpassing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in its scope, the "Waldstein " is a key early work of Beethoven's "Heroic" decade (1803–1812) and set a standard for piano composition in the grand manner.