The sonatas were composed between the end of 1812 and 1817, during which time Beethoven, ailing and overcome by all sorts of difficulties, experienced a period of literal and figurative silence as his deafness became overwhelmingly profound and his productivity diminished. Following seven years after the A Major Sonata No. 3, the complexity of their composition and their visionary character marks (with the immediately preceding piano sonata Op 101) the start of Beethoven’s `third period’.
| Date of composition | 1815 |
| First published | 1817 |
| Type | Sonata |
| Tonality | D Major |
| Catalogue | Op. 102 |
| Instruments |
Cello
Piano |
| Autotranslations beta |
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate pour violoncelle n°5 en ré majeur, Op. 102 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata per violoncello n. 5 in re maggiore, Op. 102 Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate Nr. 5 für Violoncello D-dur, Op. 102 |