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


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

Alexander Arutiunian


Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)

Kurt Atterberg


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

Lera Auerbach


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


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

Grażyna Bacewicz


★ five violin sonatas with piano


★ two solo sonatas

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach


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

Johann Christian Bach


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

Johann Sebastian Bach


3 solo sonatas (and 3 partitas)


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

Béla Bartók


★ Early sonata for violin and piano


Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano, 1921


Sonata no. 2 for violin and piano, 1922


Sonata for unaccompanied violin, 1943

Arnold Bax


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


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


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


Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([6])


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

Amy Beach


★ Violin sonata in A minor (1896) [1]

Ludwig van Beethoven


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



Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 4 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)



Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)

Heinrich Ignaz Biber


★ Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass

Ernest Bloch


violin sonata no. 1, 1920


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

Johannes Brahms


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


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


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


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


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

Frank Bridge


★ violin sonata (1932)

Ferruccio Busoni


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


violin sonata op. 29 in E minor, 1890


violin sonata op. 36a in E minor, 1898

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor


★ violin sonata op. 28 in D minor

Aaron Copland


violin sonata (1943) ([9])

Arcangelo Corelli


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

John Corigliano


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

Claude Debussy


violin sonata in G minor, 1917

Frederick Delius


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


violin sonata no. 1, 1914


violin sonata no. 2, 1923


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

Edison Denisov


sonata for violin solo, 1978


violin sonata, 1963 ([14])

Ernő Dohnányi


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

Antonín Dvořák


violin sonata op. 57 in F major, 1880


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

Edward Elgar


violin sonata op. 82 in E minor

George Enescu


★ violin sonata fragment ''Torso''


★ violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D major


★ violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor


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

Sven Einar Englund


★ violin sonata (1979) ([17])

Gabriel Fauré


★ violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A major


★ violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor

Zdeněk Fibich


★ violin sonata in D major


★ violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor

Irving Fine


★ violin sonata

Nicolas Flagello


★ violin sonata

Josef Bohuslav Foerster


★ sonata quasi fantasia

César Franck


★ violin sonata in A major

Peter Racine Fricker


★ Violin sonata no. 1 op. 12 (1950)


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

Robert Fuchs


★ six violin sonatas

Niels Wilhelm Gade


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

Friedrich Gernsheim


★ four violin sonatas

Karl Goldmark


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

Edvard Grieg


Three sonatas:



★ violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F major



★ violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G major



★ violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor

Hans Gál


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

Reynaldo Hahn


★ sonata in C major (1926) [3]

George Friedrich Handel


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

Karl Amadeus Hartmann


★ sonatas for violin solo

Hans Werner Henze


★ sonata for violin solo (1977)

Paul Hindemith


★ sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano

Vagn Holmboe


★ violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935


★ violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939


★ violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965

Arthur Honegger


★ sonatas #s '0' – '2'

Herbert Howells


★ three violin sonatas

Vincent d'Indy


violin sonata op. 59 in C major

John Ireland


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


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

Charles Ives


★ four violin sonatas

LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek


★ violin sonata

André Jolivet


★ violin sonata (1932)

Joseph W. Jones


★ Violin Sonata, Op. 10 (2005)

Aram Khachaturian


★ sonata for violin and piano

Erich Wolfgang Korngold


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

Ernst Krenek


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


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


★ violin sonata no. 2, op. 99 (1945)


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

Jean-Marie Leclair


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

Benjamin Lees


★ three violin sonatas

Pietro Locatelli


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

Albéric Magnard


★ violin sonata op. 13 in G major

Bohuslav Martinů


★ violin sonatas 1, 2, 3

Giuseppe Martucci


★ violin sonata op. 22 in G minor

William Mathias


★ at least two violin sonatas

John Blackwood McEwen


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

Nikolai Medtner


★ violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor


★ violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G major


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

Felix Mendelssohn


★ violin sonata in F major


★ violin sonata op. 4 in F minor


★ violin sonata in F major, 1838

Peter Mennin


★ sonata concertante

Darius Milhaud


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

Ernest John Moeran


★ Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


★ 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.)


★ The following have pages:



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



Violin Sonata No. 35 (Mozart)

Nikolai Myaskovsky


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

Oskar Nedbal


★ violin sonata op. 9 in B minor

Carl Nielsen


★ early sonatas


★ violin sonata op. 9 in A major


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

Vítězslav Novák


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

Leo Ornstein


★ Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski


★ violin sonata op. 13 in A minor

Niccolò Paganini


★ Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar

Krzysztof Penderecki


violin sonata no. 1 (1953)


violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ([21])

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger


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

Gabriel Pierné


★ sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36

Walter Piston


★ violin sonata (1939) ([23])


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

Quincy Porter


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

Francis Poulenc


★ violin sonata

Sergei Prokofiev


★ sonata for two violins op. 56 in C major


violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor


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


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

Joachim Raff


★ 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


★ early violin sonata


★ violin sonata in G major

Alan Rawsthorne


★ violin sonata (1958) [6]

Max Reger


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



★ violin sonata #1 op. 1 in D minor



★ violin sonata #2 op. 3 in D major



★ violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A major



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



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



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



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



★ violin sonata #8 op. 122 in E minor



★ violin sonata #9 op. 139 in C minor



★ (violin version of the clarinet sonata op. 107 in B-flat major sometimes included, and the sonatas op. 103b are sometimes not.)

Carl Reinecke


★ one violin sonata, op. 116 in E minor

Ottorino Respighi


★ violin sonata in b minor

Josef Rheinberger


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


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

George Rochberg


★ violin sonata

Joseph Guy Ropartz


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

Nikolai Roslavets


★ Violin Sonatas 1-6

Albert Roussel


★ violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor


★ violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A major

Edmund Rubbra


★ violin sonata #1 op. 11 (1925)


★ violin sonata #2 op. 31 (1931)


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

Anton Rubinstein


★ violin sonata op. 13 in G major


★ violin sonata op. 19 in A minor


★ violin sonata op. 98 in B minor

Camille Saint-Saëns


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


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

Xaver Scharwenka


★ violin sonata op. 2 in D minor

Alfred Schnittke


★ violin sonatas #s 1,2,3

Othmar Schoeck


★ violin sonata op. 16


★ violin sonata op. 46


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

Franz Schubert


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


★ violin sonata in A major

Robert Schumann


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


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


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


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

Roger Sessions


★ sonata for solo violin

Dmitri Shostakovich


violin sonata, op. 134 (1975)

Robert Simpson


sonata for violin and piano in two movements (1984)

Ethel Smyth


★ 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


★ sonatas for violin and harp

Charles Villiers Stanford


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


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


★ violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919

Richard Strauss


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

Karol Szymanowski


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

Germaine Tailleferre


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

Sergei Taneyev


★ Violin sonata in A minor

Giuseppe Tartini


Devil's Trill sonata and many others

Georg Philipp Telemann


★ Two Violin Sonata 1

Eduard Tubin


Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)


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


Solo violin sonata (1962) ([27])

Ralph Vaughan Williams


★ violin sonata in A minor

Louis Vierne


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

Giovanni Battista Viotti


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

Carl Maria von Weber


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

William Walton


★ violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)

Mieczysław Weinberg


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

Charles-Marie Widor


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

Stefan Wolpe


★ violin sonata (1949)

Eugène Ysaÿe


★ 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


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