VIOLIN SONATA

A 'violin sonata' is a musical composition for solo violin, often (but not always) accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque.
Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart and early Beethoven, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.

Contents

List of Violin sonatas

See also

References

List of Violin sonatas

★ Charles-Valentin Alkan

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★ Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) op. 21 in F-sharp minor (ca. 1840)

★ Alexander Arutiunian

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★ Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)

★ Kurt Atterberg

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★ sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) op. 27 in B minor (1925) ([1])

★ Lera Auerbach

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★ Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Skorski)

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★ Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)

★ Grażyna Bacewicz

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★ five violin sonatas with piano

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★ two solo sonatas

★ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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★ 12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard

★ Johann Christian Bach

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★ nine (opus 10 and opus 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin

★ Johann Sebastian Bach

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★ 3 solo sonatas (and 3 partitas)

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★ 6 violin sonatas with keyboard (also 3 with continuo)

★ Béla Bartók

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★ Early sonata for violin and piano

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★ Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano, 1921

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★ Sonata no. 2 for violin and piano, 1922

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★ Sonata for unaccompanied violin, 1943

★ Arnold Bax

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★ Violin Sonata in G minor (1901) (recently recorded on ASV but a rarity) ([2])

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★ Sonata No. 1 in E major, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 ([3], [4])

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★ Sonata No. 2 in D major, 1915/1921 ([5])

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★ Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([6])

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★ Sonata in F major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ([7])

★ Amy Beach

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★ Violin sonata in A minor (1896) ^[1]

★ Ludwig van Beethoven

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★ 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven — in particular

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★ Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 4 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)

★ Heinrich Ignaz Biber

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★ Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass

★ Ernest Bloch

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★ violin sonata no. 1, 1920

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★ violin sonata no. 2 ''Poeme Mystique'', 1924

★ Johannes Brahms

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★ Sonatensatz (sonata scherzo in C minor, for the 'F-A-E' Sonata collaborative sonata undertaken by Dietrich, Schumann and Brahms - 1853)

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★ (early A minor sonata, lost, reported by Remenyi)

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★ violin sonata #1 in G major, ''Rain Sonata'' op. 78, 1878–79

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★ violin sonata #2 in A major, ''Thun'' op. 100, 1886

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★ violin sonata #3 in D minor, op. 108, 1886–8

★ Frank Bridge

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★ violin sonata (1932)

★ Ferruccio Busoni

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★ violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 ([8])

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★ violin sonata op. 29 in E minor, 1890

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★ violin sonata op. 36a in E minor, 1898

★ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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★ violin sonata op. 28 in D minor

★ Aaron Copland

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★ violin sonata (1943) ([9])

★ Arcangelo Corelli

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★ violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)

★ John Corigliano

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★ violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([10])

★ Claude Debussy

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★ violin sonata in G minor, 1917

★ Frederick Delius

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★ violin sonata published posth., 1892 ([11])

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★ violin sonata no. 1, 1914

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★ violin sonata no. 2, 1923

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★ violin sonata no. 3, 1930 ([12], [13])

★ Edison Denisov

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★ sonata for violin solo, 1978

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★ violin sonata, 1963 ([14])

★ Ernő Dohnányi

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★ violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? ([15])

★ Antonín Dvořák

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★ violin sonata op. 57 in F major, 1880

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★ violin sonatina op. 100 in G major, 1893 ([16])

★ Edward Elgar

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★ violin sonata op. 82 in E minor

★ George Enescu

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★ violin sonata fragment ''Torso''

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D major

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor

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★ violin sonata #3 ''on Popular Romanian themes'' op. 25 in A minor

★ Sven Einar Englund

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★ violin sonata (1979) ([17])

★ Gabriel Fauré

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A major

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor

★ Zdeněk Fibich

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★ violin sonata in D major

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★ violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor

★ Irving Fine

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★ violin sonata

★ Nicolas Flagello

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★ violin sonata

★ Josef Bohuslav Foerster

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★ sonata quasi fantasia

★ César Franck

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★ violin sonata in A major

★ Peter Racine Fricker

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★ Violin sonata no. 1 op. 12 (1950)

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★ Violin sonata no. 2 op. 94 (1987) ^[2]

★ Robert Fuchs

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★ six violin sonatas

★ Niels Wilhelm Gade

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★ three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat major

★ Friedrich Gernsheim

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★ four violin sonatas

★ Karl Goldmark

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★ violin sonata op. 25 in D major/B minor

★ Edvard Grieg

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★ Three sonatas:

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F major

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G major

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★ violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor

★ Hans Gál

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★ violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) ([18])

★ Reynaldo Hahn

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★ sonata in C major (1926) ^[3]

★ George Friedrich Handel

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★ several violin sonatas. Some are published as his op. 1 but possibly of varying authenticity.

★ Karl Amadeus Hartmann

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★ sonatas for violin solo

★ Hans Werner Henze

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★ sonata for violin solo (1977)

★ Paul Hindemith

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★ sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano

★ Vagn Holmboe

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★ violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935

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★ violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939

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★ violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965

★ Arthur Honegger

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★ sonatas #s '0' – '2'

★ Herbert Howells

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★ three violin sonatas

★ Vincent d'Indy

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★ violin sonata op. 59 in C major

★ John Ireland

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★ Ireland Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)

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★ Ireland Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)

★ Charles Ives

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★ four violin sonatas

★ Leoš Janáček

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★ violin sonata

★ André Jolivet

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★ violin sonata (1932)

★ Joseph W. Jones

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★ Violin Sonata, Op. 10 (2005)

★ Aram Khachaturian

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★ sonata for violin and piano

★ Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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★ violin sonata op. 6 in D major (1912) ([19])

★ Ernst Krenek

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★ violin sonata in F-sharp major, op. 3 (1919)

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★ 6 sonatinas for violin and piano (without opus number 61. 1921)

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★ violin sonata no. 2, op. 99 (1945)

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★ two sonatas for solo violin (op. 33, 1925 and op. 115, 1948) ^[4]

★ Jean-Marie Leclair

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★ violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) ^[5]

★ Benjamin Lees

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★ three violin sonatas

★ Pietro Locatelli

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★ sonatas for violin with continuo from opus 6 and opus 8

★ Albéric Magnard

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★ violin sonata op. 13 in G major

★ Bohuslav Martinů

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★ violin sonatas 1, 2, 3

★ Giuseppe Martucci

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★ violin sonata op. 22 in G minor

★ William Mathias

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★ at least two violin sonatas

★ John Blackwood McEwen

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★ at least six violin sonatas (#6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press)

★ Nikolai Medtner

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G major

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★ violin sonata #3 ''Epic'' op. 57 in E minor

★ Felix Mendelssohn

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★ violin sonata in F major

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★ violin sonata op. 4 in F minor

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★ violin sonata in F major, 1838

★ Peter Mennin

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★ sonata concertante

★ Darius Milhaud

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★ at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord

★ Ernest John Moeran

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★ Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor

★ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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★ some thirty-six violin sonatas (information from Alfred Einstein, ''Mozart: His Character, His Work'', Oxford University Press, New York. Collected from list of works, pp 473–483.)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 1 (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)

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★ Violin Sonata No. 35 (Mozart)

★ Nikolai Myaskovsky

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★ violin sonata op. 70 in F major (1946-7) ([20])

★ Oskar Nedbal

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★ violin sonata op. 9 in B minor

★ Carl Nielsen

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★ early sonatas

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★ violin sonata op. 9 in A major

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★ violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C major

★ Vítězslav Novák

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★ violin sonata in D minor (his 27th work, unpublished Novák worklist )

★ Leo Ornstein

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★ Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)

★ Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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★ violin sonata op. 13 in A minor

★ Niccolò Paganini

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★ Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar

★ Krzysztof Penderecki

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★ violin sonata no. 1 (1953)

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★ violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ([21])

★ Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

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★ Violin sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription [22])

★ Gabriel Pierné

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★ sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36

★ Walter Piston

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★ violin sonata (1939) ([23])

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★ sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ([24])

★ Quincy Porter

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★ two violin sonatas (and a #0 posthumously published)

★ Francis Poulenc

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★ violin sonata

★ Sergei Prokofiev

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★ sonata for two violins op. 56 in C major

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 94 in D major (transcribed from flute sonata)

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★ sonata op. 115 for solo violin in D major (also can be played by massed unison ensemble.)

★ Joachim Raff

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★ five violin sonatas (op. 73 in E minor, op. 78 in A major, op. 128 in D major, op. 129 in one movement in G minor ''Chromatische'' and op. 145 in C minor)

★ Maurice Ravel

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★ early violin sonata

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★ violin sonata in G major

★ Alan Rawsthorne

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★ violin sonata (1958) ^[6]

★ Max Reger

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★ 9 violin sonatas with piano, several unaccompanied (four in op 42, seven in op 91)

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 1 in D minor

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 3 in D major

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★ violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A major

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★ violin sonata #4 op. 72 in C major (gave rise to a scandal at its premiere with a work by Ludwig Thuille)

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★ violin sonata #5 op. 84 in F-sharp minor

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★ violin sonata #6 op. 103b/1 in D minor

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★ violin sonata #7 op. 103b/2 in A major

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★ violin sonata #8 op. 122 in E minor

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★ violin sonata #9 op. 139 in C minor

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★ Carl Reinecke

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★ one violin sonata, op. 116 in E minor

★ Ottorino Respighi

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★ violin sonata in b minor

★ Josef Rheinberger

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★ violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat major (1874)

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★ violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)

★ George Rochberg

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★ violin sonata

★ Joseph Guy Ropartz

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★ several violin sonatas : #1 in D minor (1907), #2 in E major, #3 in A major ([25])

★ Nikolai Roslavets

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★ Violin Sonatas 1-6

★ Albert Roussel

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A major

★ Edmund Rubbra

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 11 (1925)

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 31 (1931)

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★ violin sonata #3 op. 133 (premiered 1968)

★ Anton Rubinstein

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★ violin sonata op. 13 in G major

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★ violin sonata op. 19 in A minor

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★ violin sonata op. 98 in B minor

★ Camille Saint-Saëns

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★ violin sonata op. 75 in D minor (1885)

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★ violin sonata op. 102 in E flat major (1896)

★ Xaver Scharwenka

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★ violin sonata op. 2 in D minor

★ Alfred Schnittke

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★ violin sonatas #s 1,2,3

★ Othmar Schoeck

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★ violin sonata op. 16

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★ violin sonata op. 46

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★ violin sonata WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing [26])

★ Franz Schubert

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★ violin sonatinas in D major, A minor, G minor

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★ violin sonata in A major

★ Robert Schumann

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★ violin sonata #1 op. 105 in A minor (1851)

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★ violin sonata #2 op. 121 in D minor (1851)

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★ collaboration with Brahms and Albert Dietrich in F-A-E sonata for Joseph Joachim (1853)

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★ violin sonata #3 in A minor — third and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata (1853)

★ Roger Sessions

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★ sonata for solo violin

★ Dmitri Shostakovich

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★ violin sonata, op. 134 (1975)

★ Robert Simpson

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★ sonata for violin and piano in two movements (1984)

★ Ethel Smyth

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★ Violin sonata in A minor op. 7 (published 1887) (Not mentioned in the list of works linked to in the article but recorded on Troubadisc ^[7] and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)

★ Louis Spohr

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★ sonatas for violin and harp

★ Charles Villiers Stanford

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★ violin sonata no. 1 in D, 1877? (op. 11) (notes for another recording give 1880)

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★ violin sonata no. 2 in A, op. 70, 1898 ^[8]

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★ violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919

★ Richard Strauss

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★ Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat major (1887) (Review of a compact disc containing the Strauss and Korngold)

★ Karol Szymanowski

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★ Violin sonata op. 9 in D minor (1904)

★ Germaine Tailleferre

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★ two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto ^[9])

★ Sergei Taneyev

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★ Violin sonata in A minor

★ Giuseppe Tartini

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★ Devil's Trill sonata and many others

★ Georg Philipp Telemann

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★ Two Violin Sonata 1

★ Eduard Tubin

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★ Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)

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★ Violin sonata no. 2 ''in Phrygian key'' (1949)

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★ Solo violin sonata (1962) ([27])

★ Ralph Vaughan Williams

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★ violin sonata in A minor

★ Louis Vierne

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★ violin sonata in G minor op. 23 (1905-6? Premiered 1908.)(Catalog of Vierne's music)

★ Giovanni Battista Viotti

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★ Six published sonatas opus 4 for violin and bass (about 1788), six without opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)

★ Carl Maria von Weber

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★ 6 violin sonatas, op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)

★ William Walton

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★ violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)

★ Mieczysław Weinberg

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★ a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas

★ Charles-Marie Widor

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★ two violin sonatas - #1 opus 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881), #2 opus 79 (1907 rev. 1937) ([28])

★ Stefan Wolpe

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★ violin sonata (1949)

★ Eugène Ysaÿe

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★ six sonatas for solo violin

See also

★ Violin ★ Bassoon sonata ★ Cello sonata ★ Clarinet sonata

★ Flute sonata ★ Piano sonata ★ Viola sonata ★ String Instrument Repertoire

References

1. Essentials of Music: Amy Beach
2. Peter Racine Fricker
3. Review of recording of Hahn's violin sonata and third piano quartet
4. Ernst-Krenek-Institute List of Works
5. Jean-Marie Leclair by David Wright
6. Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer
7. BBC - Radio 3 - Composer of the Week: Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944) - 5: An English Dame
8. Description of Recording of the first two Sonatas
9. Records International December 2002 Catalog