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,
Beethoven, and
César Franck, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.
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Charles-Valentin Alkan**
Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) op. 21 in F-sharp minor (ca. 1840)
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Alexander Arutiunian**
Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)
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Kurt Atterberg**
sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) op. 27 in B minor (1925) ([
1])
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Lera Auerbach**Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Sikorski)
**Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Sikorski)
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Grażyna Bacewicz**five violin sonatas with piano
**two solo sonatas
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach**12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard
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Johann Christian Bach** nine (opus 10 and opus 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin
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Johann Sebastian Bach**
3 solo sonatas (and 3 partitas)**6 violin sonatas with keyboard (also 3 with continuo)
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Béla Bartók**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
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Arnold Bax**
Violin Sonata in G minor (1901) (recently recorded on ASV but a rarity) ([
2])
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Sonata No. 1 in E, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 ([
3], [
4])
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Sonata No. 2 in D, 1915/1921 ([
5])
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Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([
6])
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Sonata in F (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ([
7])
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Ludwig van Beethoven**10 sonatas — see
List of works by Beethoven — in particular
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Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)***
Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)***
Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)*
Ernest Bloch**
violin sonata no. 1, 1920
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violin sonata no. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924
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Johannes Brahms**(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,
Rain Sonata op. 78, 1878–9
**violin sonata #2 in A,
Thun op. 100, 1886
**violin sonata #3 in D minor, op. 108, 1886–8
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Frank Bridge**violin sonata (1932)
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Ferruccio Busoni**
violin sonata (early) in C, 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
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor**violin sonata op. 28 in D minor
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Aaron Copland**
violin sonata (1943) ([
9])
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Arcangelo Corelli**violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)
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John Corigliano**
violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([
10])
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Claude Debussy**
violin sonata in G minor, 1917
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Frederick Delius**
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])
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Edison Denisov**
sonata for violin solo, 1978
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violin sonata, 1963 ([
14])
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Ernő Dohnányi**
violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? ([
15])
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Antonín Dvořák**
violin sonata op. 57 in F, 1880
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violin sonatina op. 100 in G, 1893 ([
16])
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Edward Elgar**
violin sonata op. 82 in E minor
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George Enescu**violin sonata fragment
Torso**violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D
**violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor
**violin sonata #3
on Popular Romanian themes op. 25 in A minor
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Einar Englund**violin sonata (1979) ([
17])
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Gabriel Fauré**violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A
**violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor
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Zdeněk Fibich**violin sonata in D
**violin sonatina, op. 27
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Irving Fine**violin sonata
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Nicolas Flagello**violin sonata
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Josef Bohuslav Foerster**sonata quasi fantasia
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César Franck**violin sonata in A
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Robert Fuchs**six violin sonatas
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Niels Wilhelm Gade**three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat
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Karl Goldmark**violin sonata op. 25 in D major/B minor
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Edvard Grieg**violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F
**violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G
**violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor
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Hans Gál**violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) ([
18])
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George Friedrich Handel**several violin sonatas. Some are published as his op. 1 but of varying authenticity?
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann**sonatas for violin solo
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Hans Werner Henze**sonata for violin solo (1977)
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Paul Hindemith**sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano
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Vagn Holmboe**violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935
**violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939
**violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965
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Arthur Honegger**sonatas #s '0' – '2'
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Herbert Howells**three violin sonatas
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Vincent d'Indy**
violin sonata op. 59 in C
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John Ireland**
Ireland Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
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Ireland Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)
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Charles Ives**four violin sonatas
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Leoš Janáček**violin sonata
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Joseph W. Jones**Violin Sonata, Op. 10 (2005)
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André Jolivet**violin sonata (1932)
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Aram Khachaturian**sonata for violin and piano
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Erich Korngold**violin sonata op. 6 in D
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Ernst Krenek**violin sonata in F-sharp
**two sonatas for solo violin
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Benjamin Lees**three violin sonatas
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Pietro Locatelli**sonatas for violin with continuo from opus 6 and opus 8
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Albéric Magnard**violin sonata op. 13 in G
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Bohuslav Martinů**violin sonatas 1, 2, 3
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Giuseppe Martucci**violin sonata op. 22 in G minor
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William Mathias**at least two violin sonatas
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Nikolai Medtner**violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor
**violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G
**violin sonata #3
Epic op. 57 in E minor
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Felix Mendelssohn**violin sonata in F
**violin sonata op. 4 in F minor
**violin sonata in F, 1838
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Peter Mennin**sonata concertante
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Darius Milhaud**at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart**twenty-four (thirty?) 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:
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Sonata in C for Keyboard and Violin (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)
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Sonata in A for Violin and Keyboard (1787)*
Nikolai Myaskovsky**violin sonata op. 70 in F
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Oskar Nedbal**violin sonata op. 9 in B minor
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Carl Nielsen**early sonatas
**violin sonata op. 9 in A
**violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C
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Vítězslav Novák**violin sonata in D minor
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Leo Ornstein**Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski**violin sonata op. 13 in A minor
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Niccolò Paganini**Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar
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Krzysztof Penderecki**
violin sonata no. 1 (1953)
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violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ([
19])
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Gabriel Pierné**sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36
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Walter Piston**violin sonata
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Francis Poulenc**violin sonata
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Sergei Prokofiev**sonata for two violins op. 56 in C
**violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor
**violin sonata #2 op. 94 in D (transcribed from flute sonata)
**sonata op. 115 for solo violin in D (also can be played by massed unison ensemble.)
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Joachim Raff**five violin sonatas (op. 73 in E minor, op. 78 in A, op. 128 in D, op. 129 in one movement in G minor
Chromatische and op. 145 in C minor)
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Maurice Ravel**early violin sonata
**violin sonata in G
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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
***violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A
***violin sonata #4 op. 72 in C (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
***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 sometimes included, and the sonatas op. 103b are sometimes not.)
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Ottorino Respighi**violin sonata in b
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Josef Rheinberger**violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat (1874)
**violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)
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George Rochberg**violin sonata
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Joseph Guy Ropartz**several violin sonatas : #1 in D minor (1907), #2 in E, #3 in A ([
20])
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Albert Roussel**violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
**violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A
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Edmund Rubbra**violin sonata #1 op. 11 (1925)
**violin sonata #2 op. 31 (1931)
**violin sonata #3 op. 133 (premiered 1968)
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Anton Rubinstein**violin sonata op. 13 in G
**violin sonata op. 19 in A minor
**violin sonata op. 98 in B minor
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Camille Saint-Saëns**violin sonata op. 75 in D minor (1885)
**violin sonata op. 102 in E flat (1896)
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Xaver Scharwenka**violin sonata op. 2 in D minor
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Alfred Schnittke**violin sonatas #s 1,2,3
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Othmar Schoeck**violin sonata op. 16
**violin sonata op. 46
**violin sonata WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing [
21])
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Franz Schubert**violin sonatinas in D, A minor, G minor
**violin sonata in A
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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)
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Roger Sessions**sonata for solo violin
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Dmitri Shostakovich**
violin sonata, op. 134 (1975)
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Robert Simpson**
sonata for violin and piano in two movements (1984)
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Louis Spohr**sonatas for violin and harp
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Richard Strauss**Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat
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Karol Szymanowski**Violin sonata op. 9 in D minor
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Sergei Taneyev**Violin sonata in A minor
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Giuseppe Tartini**
Devil's Trill sonata*
Eduard Tubin**
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) ([
22])
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Ralph Vaughan Williams**violin sonata in A minor
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Louis Vierne**violin sonata in G minor op. 23 (1907)
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Carl Maria von Weber**6 violin sonatas, his op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)
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William Walton**violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg**a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas
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Charles-Marie Widor**two violin sonatas - #1 opus 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881), #2 opus 79 (1907 rev. 1937) ([
23])
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Stefan Wolpe**violin sonata
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Eugène Ysaÿe**six sonatas for solo violin
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Bassoon sonata*
Cello sonata*
Clarinet sonata*
Compositions for solo instruments*
Flute sonata*
Piano sonata*
Viola sonata
