A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.
List of Violin sonatas
- Ella Adaïewsky
- Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano (1880)[1]
- 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)[2]
- 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
- 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)
- 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven — in particular
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber
- Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass
- Ernest Bloch
- violin sonata no. 1, 1920
- violin sonata no. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924
- Theodor Blumer
- Violin Sonata
- 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 ([7])
- 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) ([8])
- Arcangelo Corelli
- violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)
- John Corigliano
- violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([9])
- Claude Debussy
- violin sonata in G minor, 1917
- Edison Denisov
- sonata for violin solo, 1978
- violin sonata, 1963 ([13])
- Ernő Dohnányi
- violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? ([14])
- Lucien Durosoir
- violin sonata in A major, 1921 ([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
- Leonid Feigin
- violin sonata No. 1 (1963)
- violin sonata No. 2 (1981)
- Zdeněk Fibich
- violin sonata in D major
- violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor
- Grzegorz Fitelberg
- at least two violin sonatas (A minor, op. 2, F major, op. 12: by 1905)[4]
- Irving Fine
- violin sonata
- Nicolas Flagello
- violin sonata
- 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
- Joseph Gibbs
- Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748
- 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
- Three sonatas:
- Reynaldo Hahn
- sonata in C major (1926) [10]
- 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
- Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
- Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)
- Charles Ives
- four violin sonatas
- Leoš Janáček
- violin sonata
- David Johnstone
- Sonata for violin solo (pub.2008)
- André Jolivet
- violin sonata (1932)
- Aram Khachaturian
- sonata for violin and piano
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- violin sonata op. 6 in G major (1912) ([22])
- 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) [11]
- Jean-Marie Leclair
- violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) [12]
- Benjamin Lees
- three violin sonatas
- Lowell Liebermann
- Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.46 (1994)
- 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
- The following have pages:
- Violin Sonatas, KV 6-9 (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)
- Violin Sonatas, KV 10-15 (Mozart) (1764 – 1765)
- Violin Sonatas, KV 26-31 (Mozart) (1766)
- Violin Sonata No. 35 (Mozart)
- Nikolai Myaskovsky
- violin sonata op. 70 in F major (1946-7) ([23])
- 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" (in Czech). http://www.vitezslavnovak.cz/tabulka.html. Retrieved 2007-01-13.)
- 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
- Robert Paterson
- Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano [24]
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- violin sonata no. 1 (1953)
- violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ([25])
- Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
- Violin sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription [26])
- Gabriel Pierné
- sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36
- 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) [15]
- 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.)
- 9 violin sonatas with piano, several unaccompanied (four in op 42, seven in op 91)
- 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 (1917), #3 in A major (1927) [16]
- 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)
- Philipp Scharwenka
- violin sonata op. 110 in B minor (by 1900)[17]
- 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 [29])
- 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 (1968)
- 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 [18] 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 [19]
- violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919
- Wilhelm Stenhammar
- violin sonata op. 19 in A minor (1899/1900)
- 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 [20])
- Sergei Taneyev
- Violin sonata in A minor
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Devil's Trill sonata and many others
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Canonic Sonatas for Two Violins
- Eduard Tubin
- Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)
- Violin sonata no. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)
- Solo violin sonata (1962) ([30])
- 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)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Twelve sonatas (Opus 2), six sonatas (Opus 5) and other various, such as the recently (1970s) discovered 'Manchester Sonatas'. Also the Opus 1 twelve sonatas, though these are for two violins and technically are trio sonatas.
- Georg Joseph Vogler
- Six Sonatas Opus 3[21]
- William Walton
- violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)
- Carl Maria von Weber
- 6 violin sonatas, op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)
- 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) ([31])
- Stefan Wolpe
- violin sonata (1949)
- Eugène Ysaÿe
- six sonatas for solo violin
See also
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