Early Piano Works

In the Piano Music Encyclopedia, Mendelssohn's piano solo works published prior to Op. 5 are categorized as early works (studies/juvenilia). Many of these remain unpublished to date, but are slated for future publication by the Leipzig Edition of Mendelssohn's Works (LMA).

Below is a list of early piano works, excluding 'Sonatas'.

• U 1 Allegro in C major, 1820
• U 2 Klavierstück in G minor, 1820
• U 3 Andante in A major, 1820
• U 4 Allegro molto in B minor, 1820
• U 6 Andante in F major, [1820]
• U 7 Klavierstück in B minor/D minor, 1820
• U 9 Largo in D minor, [1820]
• U 10 Klavierstück in F minor, [1820]
• U 11 Recitativo in E minor, [1820]
• U 12 Klavierstück in E minor/G major, [1820]
• U 13 Largo-Allegro in C minor, [1820]
• U 15 Adagio in D major, [1820]
• U 17 Presto in C minor, 1820
• U 18 Klavierstück in E minor, [1820]
• U 22 Klavierstück in A minor, [1820]
• U 26 Etüde in D minor, [1820]
• U 27 Etüde in A minor, [1820]
• U 28 Allegro in A minor, 1821
• U 29 Etüde in C major, 1821
• U 31 Largo in C minor - Allegretto di molto in C major, 1821
• U 32 Fuge in D minor, [1821]
• U 35 Sonatine in E major, 1821
• U 36 Fuge in D minor, 1822
• U 37 Fuge in B minor, [1822]
• U 38 Klavierstück in G major, [1822]
• U 39 Walzer in D major, [1822]
• U 40 Andante in E major, [1822]
• U 41 Fantasie in C minor/D major, 1823
• U 43 Capriccio in E-flat minor, [1824]
• U 45 Prestissimo in F minor, [1824]
• U 46 Fuge in G minor, 1824

U1, U2, U3, U4, U18, and U22 were individually composed and later compiled by the composer himself as 'Six Piano Pieces'. (However, U18 (No. 5) was numbered by a different person.)

U13, U15, and U17 were compiled as a Sonata in C minor and published in Rome in 2009.