List of violin sonatas explained

A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.

List

A

• Tomaso Albinoni
  • Sonate da chiesa ("Op. 4") (for violin and basso continuo) (Amsterdam, c.1708)
  • [5] Sonate, violin and basso continuo, … e uno suario o capriccio … del Sig. Tibaldi (Amsterdam, c1717)
  • 6 sonates da camera, for violin and harpsichord, Op. Posth. (Paris, c.1740)
• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) in F-sharp minor, Op. 21 (c. 1840)
• Kurt Atterberg
  • Sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) in B minor, Op. 27 (1925)^[1]

B

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • 12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard
  • Sonatas for violin and harpsichord BWV 1020, 1022
• Johann Christian Bach
  • Nine (Op. 10 and 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Solo sonatas BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005, included in Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (1720)
  • Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019
  • Sonatas for violin and continuo BWV 1021, 1023, and the doubtful 1024
• 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 solo violin, 1944
• Arnold Bax
  • Violin Sonata in G minor (1901) (recently recorded on ASV but a rarity) (https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185057/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/asv2.htm)
  • Sonata No. 1 in E major, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185115/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/deliussonata.htm, https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185057/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/asv2.htm)
  • Sonata No. 2 in D major, 1915/1921 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185124/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
  • Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185124/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
  • Sonata in F major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185124/http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
• Amy Beach
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (1896)^[2]
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Sonata in A major (fragmentary) (1790-92)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1798)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1798)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1798)
  • Violin Sonata No. 4 (1800)
  • Violin Sonata No. 5 (1800-01)
  • Violin Sonata No. 6 (1801-02)
  • Violin Sonata No. 7 (1801-02)
  • Violin Sonata No. 8 (1801-02)
  • Violin Sonata No. 9 (1802-03)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10 (1812)
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1978)
  • Violin Sonata No.1 Op.50 (1999)
  • Violin Sonata No.2 Op.56 (2000)
• Heinrich Ignaz Biber
  • Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass
  • Sonatae violino solo (8 sonatas for violin and continuo) (1681)
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 1 in A major
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 2 in D minor
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 3 in F major
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 4 in D major
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 5 in E minor
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 6 in C minor
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 7 in G minor
    • Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 8 in G major
  • Sonata violino solo representativa (Representatio Avium), for violin & continuo in A major, 1669?
  • Sonata, for solo violin in A major
• Ernest Bloch
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, 1920
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924
• Theodor Blumer
  • Violin Sonata
• Nimrod Borenstein
  • Sonata for violin and piano Op. 1 (1994)
  • Sonata concertante Op. 61 for violin and piano (2013)
• 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 No. 1 in G major, Rain Sonata, Op. 78, 1878–79
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Thun, Op. 100, 1886
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, 1886–88
• James Francis Brown
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (2001. Rev 2003)^[3]
• Frank Bridge
  • Violin Sonata (1932)
• Ferruccio Busoni
  • Violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Finlandia/2564610782)
  • Violin sonata Op. 29 in E minor, 1890
  • Violin sonata Op. 36a in E minor, 1898

C

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 28
• Aaron Copland
  • Violin Sonata (1943) (https://web.archive.org/web/20061003202057/http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=30&callid=22&strchar=A)
• Arcangelo Corelli
  • Violin sonatas with continuo (Op. 5, Nos. 1–12)
• John Corigliano
  • Violin Sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) (https://web.archive.org/web/20050804003623/http://www.schirmer.com/composers/corigliano_works.html)

D

• Claude Debussy
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, 1917
• Frederick Delius
  • Violin Sonata published posth., 1892 (https://web.archive.org/web/20050127205906/http://members.fortunecity.com/wbthomp/jax1999.html)
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, 1914
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, 1923
  • Violin Sonata No. 3, 1930 (https://web.archive.org/web/20041205212221/http://kdfc.com/new/composers_detail.cfm?id=106, https://web.archive.org/web/20050206230853/http://musica.co.uk/composers/Delius.htm)
• Edison Denisov
  • Sonata for violin solo, 1978
  • Violin Sonata, 1963 (https://web.archive.org/web/20050404190855/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/denisov.htm)
• Ernő Dohnányi
  • Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 21, 1913? (http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classpedia/Dohnanyi.htm)
• Avner Dorman
  • Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 2004
  • Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano, 2008
  • Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano, 2011^[4]
  • Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, 2015
• Lucien Durosoir
  • Violin Sonata in A major, 1921 (http://www.fugalibera.com/readmorecd.php?cd=201&label=alpha/Lucien)
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57, 1880
  • Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, 1893 (http://www.karadar.com/Cataloghi/dvorak.html)

E

• Edward Elgar
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82
• George Enescu
  • Violin Sonata fragment Torso
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 dans le caractère populaire roumain (in Romanian Folk Style) in A minor, Op. 25
• Sven Einar Englund
  • Violin Sonata (1979) (https://web.archive.org/web/20060207090745/http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/d55c585fdb6dda91c22566b200448b1f?OpenDocument)
• Iván Erőd
  • 1st Sonata op. 14 (1970)
  • 2nd Sonata op. 74 (2000)

F

• Gabriel Fauré
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108
• Mohammed Fairouz
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (2011)
• Zdeněk Fibich
  • Violin Sonata in D major
  • Violin Sonatina in D minor, Op. 27
• Grzegorz Fitelberg
  • at least two violin sonatas (A minor, Op. 2, F major, Op. 12: by 1905)^[5]
• Irving Fine
  • Violin Sonata
• Nicolas Flagello
  • Violin Sonata
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Sonata No. 1, Op. 10^[6]
  • Sonata No. 2, sonata quasi fantasia, Op. 177
• César Franck
  • Violin Sonata in A major, M. 8
• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1950)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94 (1987)^[7]
• Robert Fuchs
  • Six violin sonatas
• Wilhelm Furtwängler
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1935)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1939)

G

• Niels Wilhelm Gade
  • Three sonatas: Op. 6 in A, Op. 21 in D minor, Op. 59 in B-flat major
• Hans Gál
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 17 (also at least one other) (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogMay03.html)
  • Violin Sonata in D (1933)
  • Three Sonatinas, Op. 71 (1956)
• Friedrich Gernsheim
  • Four violin sonatas
• Joseph Gibbs
  • Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748
• Philip Glass
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
• Benjamin Godard
  • Four violin sonatas (No. 1, Op. 1; No. 2, Op. 2; No. 3 in D minor, Op. 9; No. 4 in A-flat major, Op. 12)^{[8] [9] [10]}
• Karl Goldmark
  • Violin Sonata in D major/B minor, Op. 25
• Edvard Grieg
  • Violin Sonatas and
• Jorge Grundman
  • What Inspires Poetry. Violin and Piano Sonata (2008)
  • Warhol in Springtime. Violin and Piano Sonata (2011)
  • White Sonata: The Child Who Never Wanted to Grow Up. Violin and Piano Sonata (2012)
• Camargo Guarnieri
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1930)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1933)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950)
  • Violin Sonata No. 4 (1956)
  • Violin Sonata No. 5 (1959)
  • Violin Sonata No. 6 (1965)
  • Violin Sonata No. 7

H

• Reynaldo Hahn
  • Sonata in C major (1926)^[11]
• George Frideric Handel
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in D minor (HWV 359a)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major (HWV 361)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in G minor (HWV 364a)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in G minor (HWV 368) (probably spurious)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in F major (HWV 370) (probably spurious)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in D major (HWV 371)
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major (HWV 372) (probably spurious)
  • Sobata for violin and basso continuo in E major (HWV 373) (probably spurious)
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sonatas for violin solo
• Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in B-flat major Hob:XVa:1
  • Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in D major Hob:XVa:2
  • Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in C major Hob:XVa:3
• Swan Hennessy
  • Sonate en Fa (Style Irlandais), Op. 14 (1905)
  • Deuxième Sonatine, Op. 80 (1929)
• Hans Werner Henze
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1946)
  • Sonata for violin solo (1977; revised 1992)
  • Sonatina for violin and piano (1979) [from the opera Pollicino]
• Paul Hindemith
  • Sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano
• C. René Hirschfeld
  • Sonata concertante for violin and piano (2006)
• Vagn Holmboe
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, M. 82, 1935
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, M. 112, 1939
  • Violin Sonata No. 3, M. 227, 1965
• Arthur Honegger
  • Sonatas Nos. 0–2
• Herbert Howells
  • Three violin sonatas
• Bertold Hummel
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 6 (1952) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_6.html
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 35a (1969) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_35A.html
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 107a (2001) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_107A.html

I

• Vincent d'Indy
  • Violin Sonata in C major, Op. 59
• John Ireland
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1909)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor (1917)
• Charles Ives
  • Four violin sonatas

J

• Leoš Janáček
  • Violin Sonata
• André Jolivet
  • Violin Sonata (1932)
• Paul Juon
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, op. 7
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in F major, op. 69
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 86

K

• Karen Khachaturian
  • Sonata for violin and piano
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 6 (1912)
• Ernst Krenek
  • Violin Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 3 (1919)
  • Six sonatinas for violin and piano (without Op. number 61. 1921)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 99 (1945)
  • Two sonatas for solo violin (Op. 33, 1925 and Op. 115, 1947)^{[12] [13]}
• Toivo Kuula
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 1 (1907)

L

• Edouard Lalo
  • Violin Sonata in D major, Op.12
• Jean-Marie Leclair
  • Violin sonatas (at least Op.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute)
• Benjamin Lees
  • Three Violin Sonatas
• Paul Le Flem
  • Violin Sonata in G minor (1905)
• Kenneth Leighton
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 4 (1949)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 (1953)
• Guillaume Lekeu
  • Violin Sonata in G major (1892/93)
• Lowell Liebermann
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.46 (1994)
• Douglas Lilburn
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat (1943)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in C (1943)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950)
• Franz Liszt
  • Violin Sonata (Duo) in C-sharp minor, S 127 (1835)
• Pietro Locatelli
  • Sonatas for violin with continuo from Opp. 6 and 8

M

• Leevi Madetoja
  • Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1913)
• Albéric Magnard
  • Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13
• Edgar Manas
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1923)
• Bohuslav Martinů
  • Violin Sonatas 1, 2, 3
• Giuseppe Martucci
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 22
• William Mathias
  • Three violin sonatas
• John Blackwood McEwen
  • At least six violin sonatas (No. 6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press)
• Nikolai Medtner
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor, Op. 21 (1909-10)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 (1922-25)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 Epica in E minor, Op. 57 (1938)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Violin Sonata in F major, 1820
  • Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4, 1823
  • Violin Sonata in F major, 1838
• Peter Mennin
  • Sonata Concertante
• Peter Mieg
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1936)
• 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
  • Violin Sonatas, KV 6–9 (for Keyboard and Violin) (1762-64)
    • No. 1 in C major (1762-64)
    • No. 2 in D major (1763-64)
    • No. 3 in B-flat major (1763-64)
    • No. 4 in G major (1764)
  • Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (for Keyboard with Violin or Flute, and Cello) (1764)
    • No. 5 in B-flat major (1764)
    • No. 6 in G major (1764)
    • No. 7 in A major (1764)
    • No. 8 in F major (1764)
    • No. 9 in C major (1764)
    • No. 10 in B-flat major (1764)
  • Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31 (for Keyboard and Violin) (1766)
    • No. 11 in E-flat major (1766)
    • No. 12 in G major (1766)
    • No. 13 in C major (1766)
    • No. 14 in D major (1766)
    • No. 15 in F major (1766)
    • No. 16 in B-flat major (1766)
  • Violin Sonata No. 17 in C major, K. 296 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 18 in G major, K. 301 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 19 in E-flat major, K. 302 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 20 in C major, K. 303 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 22 in A major, K. 305 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 23 in D major, K. 306 (1778)
  • Violin Sonata No. 24 in F major, K. 376 (1781)
  • Violin Sonata No. 25 in F major, K. 377 (1781)
  • Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378 (1779)
  • Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major, K. 379 (1781)
  • Violin Sonata No. 28 in E-flat major, K. 380 (1781)
  • Violin Sonata No. 29 in A major, K. 402 (1782; fragment, completed by M. Stadler)
  • Violin Sonata No. 30 in C major, K. 403 (1782; fragment, completed by M. Stadler)
  • Violin Sonata No. 31 in C major, K. 404 (1782; fragment, completed by M. Stadler)
  • Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454 (1784)
  • Violin Sonata No. 33 in E-flat major, K. 481 (1785)
  • Violin Sonata No. 34 in B-flat major, K. 372 (1781; fragment, completed by M. Stadler)
  • Violin Sonata No. 35 in A major, K. 526 (1787)
  • Violin Sonata No. 36 in F major, K. 547 (1788)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 70 (1946–47) (https://web.archive.org/web/20071210025510/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm)

N

• Eduard Nápravník
  • Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 52
• Lior Navok
  • Violin Sonata
• Oskar Nedbal
  • Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 9
• Carl Nielsen
  • Early sonatas
  • Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 9
  • Violin Sonata in G minor/C major, Op. 35
• Vítězslav Novák
  • Violin Sonata in D minor (his 27th work, unpublished Web site: cs. Novák worklist. 2007-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20070309201553/http://www.vitezslavnovak.cz/tabulka.html. 2007-03-09.)

O

• Leo Ornstein
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 26 (1914–15)
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)
  • Violin Sonata, Op. Posth (Unfinished)

P

• Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 13
• Niccolò Paganini
  • Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar
• Hubert Parry
  • Fantasy-Sonata in B minor for violin and pianoforte (c. 1878)
  • Violin Sonata in D major (1889)
• Robert Paterson
  • Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (2003)^[14]
• Dora Pejačević
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major 'Frühlings-Sonate' Op. 26 (1909)
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor 'Slawische Sonate' Op. 43 (1917)
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1953)^[15]
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (2000)
• Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • Violin Sonata in E minor (1887)
  • Violin Sonata in G major (1910)
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogFeb02.html)
• Gabriel Pierné
  • Sonata for violin (or flute), Op. 36
• Johann Georg Pisendel
  • Sonata for violin and continuo in E minor
  • Sonata for violin and continuo in D major
  • Sonata for violin solo, in A minor
• Walter Piston
  • Violin Sonata (1939) (http://www.classical-artists.com/ssjj/)
  • Sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) (http://www.musicalobservations.com/recordings/cp2_114.html)
• Quincy Porter
  • Two violin sonatas (and one posthumous)
• Francis Poulenc
  • Violin Sonata (1943)
• Gerhard Präsent
  • Sonata del Gesù op. 35 (1997–99)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Sonata for two violins in C major, Op. 56
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 (1946)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 (transcribed from flute sonata)
  • Sonata for solo violin in D major, Op. 115 (can also be played by massed unison ensemble.)

R

• Joachim Raff
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 73
  • Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 78
  • Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 128
  • Violin Sonata in G minor Chromatische, Op. 129 (One movement)
  • Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 145
• Maurice Ravel
  • Violin Sonata No. 1
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
• Alan Rawsthorne
  • Violin Sonata (1958)^[16]
• Max Reger
  • Nine violin sonatas with piano, several unaccompanied (four in op 42, seven in op 91)
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 1
    • Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 3
    • Violin Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 41
    • Violin Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 72 (gave rise to a scandal at its premiere with a work by Ludwig Thuille)
    • Violin Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 84
    • Violin Sonata No. 6 in D minor, Op. 103b/1
    • Violin Sonata No. 7 in A major, Op. 103b/2
    • Violin Sonata No. 8 in E minor, Op. 122
    • Violin Sonata No. 9 in C minor, Op. 139
    • (violin version of the clarinet sonata in B-flat major, Op. 107 sometimes included, and the sonatas Op. 103b are sometimes not.)
• Carl Reinecke
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 116
• Ottorino Respighi
  • Violin Sonata in D minor (1897)
  • Violin Sonata in B minor (1917)
• Josef Rheinberger
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 77 (1874)
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 105 (1877)
• Ferdinand Ries
  • Violin Sonata in A-flat major, WoO. 5
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, WoO. 7 (Fragmentary)
  • Violin Sonatas, Op. 3, Nº. 1–2
  • Violin Sonatas, Op. 8, Nº. 1–2
  • Violin Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 10
  • Violin Sonatas, Op. 16, Nº. 1–3
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major Op. 18
  • Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 19
  • Violin Sonatas, Op. 30, Nº. 1–3
  • Violin Sonatas, Op. 38, Nº. 1–3
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 69
  • Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 71
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 83
• George Rochberg
  • Violin Sonata
• Guy Ropartz
  • Seven violin sonatas: No. 1 in D minor (1907), No. 2 in E major (1917), No. 3 in A major (1927)^[17]
• Nikolai Roslavets
  • Violin Sonatas 1–6 (3 and 5 lost)
• Albert Roussel
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 11
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 28
• Edmund Rubbra
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 11 (1925)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 31 (1931)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 133 (premiered 1968)
• Anton Rubinstein
  • Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19
  • Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 98

S

• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75 (1885)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 102 (1896)
• Rosario Scalero
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 12
• Philipp Scharwenka
  • Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 110 (by 1900)^[18]
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 114
• Xaver Scharwenka
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
  • Sonatae unarum fidium (1664)
• Florent Schmitt
  • Sonate libre en deux parties enchaînées (ad modum clementis aquæ) Op.68, vn, pf (1918–19)
• Alfred Schnittke
  • Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 3
• Johann Schobert
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord with violin ad libitum, Op. 1
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord, with violin obbligato, Op. 2
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord with violin ad libitum, Op. 3
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord with violin ad libitum, Op. 5
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord with violin obbligato, Op. 8
  • 6 Sonatas for harpsichord with violin ad libitum, Op. 14 (No. 1 with violin and viola ad libitum)
  • 4 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin, Op. 17
  • 2 Sonatas for harpsichord (or pianoforte) and violin, Op. 19 (posthumous)
  • 3 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin, Op. 20 (spurious, probably by Tommaso Giordani)
• Othmar Schoeck
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 16
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 46
  • Violin Sonata, WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing https://web.archive.org/web/20070928211814/http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/NR_August05/502503.htm)
• Franz Schubert
  • Sonatas for piano and obbligato violin (Sonatinas), Op. 137 (1816): No. 1 in D major, No. 2 in A minor and No. 3 in G minor
  • Violin Sonata (Duo) in A major, D 574 (1817)
• Ervin Schulhoff
  • Violin Sonata Op.7 (1913)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (1927)
  • Violin Sonata No.2 (1927)
• Robert Schumann
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 (1851)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 (1851)
  • collaboration with Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich in the F-A-E Sonata for Joseph Joachim (1853)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, WoO 27 – third and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata (1853)
• Laura Schwendinger
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (1991)
• Roger Sessions
  • Sonata for Solo Violin
• Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1974)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (2009)
• Alexander Shchetynsky
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1990)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (2009)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 134 (1968)
• Jean Sibelius
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, JS 177 (1884)
  • Violin Sonata in F major, JS 178 (1889)
  • Violin Sonatina in E major, Op. 80 (1915)
• Robert Simpson
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, in two movements (1984)
• Fredrik Sixten
  • Sonata for violin and piano
• Nikos Skalkottas
  • Sonata for solo violin (1925)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1940)
  • Sonatinas nos. 1–4 (1928–35)
• 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^[19] and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)
• Louis Spohr
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in B-flat major, Op. 16
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 113
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 114
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in A-flat major, Op. 115
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in C minor, WoO. 23
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 11, 1877? (notes for another recording give 1880)^[20]
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 70, 1898
  • Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 1, 1919 (Lost)^[21]
  • Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 2, 1919 (Lost)
• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19 (1899/1900)
• Richard Strauss
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 (1887)^[22]
• Karol Szymanowski
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 9 (1904)

T

• Germaine Tailleferre
  • Two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto^[23])
• Sergei Taneyev
  • Violin Sonata in A minor
• Giuseppe Tartini
  • Devil's Trill sonata and many others
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Methodical Sonatas for violin and continuo
  • Sonates sans basse and Canonic Sonatas, both sets for two instruments (e.g. violins)
• Alice Tegnér
  • Sonata for violin and piano in A minor (1901)^[24] (you can also find the music notes for both parts at this reference)
• Susan Trew
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1893)
• Eduard Tubin
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1936)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)
  • Solo violin sonata (1962)^[25]
• Joaquín Turina
  • Sonate Espagnole (1908)
  • Sonata No.1, Op. 51
  • Sonata No.2, Op. 82

V

• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Violin Sonata in A minor
• Carlos Veerhoff
  • Violin sonata op.47 (1982)
• Antonio Veracini
  • Sonate da camera [10], for solo violin, Op. 2 (Modena, c.1694)
• Francesco Maria Veracini
  • 12 Sonatas for recorder or violin solo and basso (no opus number, dedicated to Prince Friedrich August, before 1716, unpublished in the composer's lifetime)
  • 12 Sonatas for violin solo and basso, Op. 1 (dedicated to Prince Friedrich August, 1721)
  • 12 Sonate Accademiche for violin solo and basso, Op. 2 (1744)
  • Dissertazioni del Sigr. Francesco Veracini sopra l'opera quinta del Corelli [Dissertation by Mr. Francesco Veracini on Corelli's Opus 5]
• Louis Vierne
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 23 (1905-6? Premiered 1908.)(Catalog of Vierne's music)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Sonate-fantaisie No. 1 for violin and piano, Desesperança (Despair) (1913)
  • Sonate-fantaisie No. 2 for violin and piano (1914)
  • Sonata for violin and piano No. 3 (1920)
  • Sonata for violin and piano No. 4 (1923, lost)
• Giovanni Battista Viotti
  • Six published sonatas for violin and bass, Op. 4 (about 1788), six without Opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Twelve sonatas (Op. 2), six sonatas (Op. 5) and other various, such as the Manchester Sonatas, rediscovered in the 1970s. Also the Op. 1 twelve sonatas, though these are for two violins and technically are trio sonatas.
• Georg Joseph Vogler
  • Six Sonatas Op. 3^[26]

W

• Henry Walford Davies
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat major (1893–95)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major (1893–95)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in E minor, Op. 5 (1894)
  • Violin Sonata No. 4 in D minor, Op. 7 (1896)
  • Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major (1899)
• William Walton
  • Violin Sonata (1949/rev 1950)
• Carl Maria von Weber
  • 6 sonatas for piano and obbligato violin, J 99–104, Op. 10b (1810): F major, G major, D minor, E-flat major, A major, C major
• Mieczysław Weinberg
  • a violin sonatina, six sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas
• Johann Paul von Westhoff
  • Sonata for violin and basso continuo (December 1682, published in Mercure galant)
  • Sonate a Violino solo con basso continuo (Dresden, 1694)
• Charles-Marie Widor
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 79 (1907 rev. 1937)^[27]
• Józef Wieniawski
  • Violin Sonata (1860)
• Stefan Wolpe
  • Violin Sonata (1949)
• Charles Wuorinen
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1988)

Y

• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27

Z

• Carlo Zuccari
  • 12 Sonate per violino é basso ò cembalo Op. 1 (Milano 1747)

See also

• String instrument repertoire
• List of compositions for two violins

External links

• The Canon of Violin Literature

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Essentials of Music: Amy Beach . 2007-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070408072914/http://essentialsofmusic.com/composer/beach.html . 2007-04-08 .
3. Tirimo, F. (no date) Works – Violin Sonata. Available at: http://www.jamesfrancisbrown.com/works/work.asp?workid=293&order=catdate (Accessed: 13 October 2015)
4. Web site: Nigunim (Violin Sonata No. 3) Avner Dorman . 2023-07-30 . www.wisemusicclassical.com . en.
5. Web site: Sonate no. 2, F dur, für Pianoforte und Violine. Op. 12 . 2005 . University of Rochester . 1802/1298 . free. Date for 2nd sonata comes from front page of PDF.
6. News: The Complete Works by Foerster for Violin and Piano.
7. Web site: Schlüren . Christoph . Peter Racine Fricker . MPH München . October 2006 . 2007-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030710043605/http://www.musikmph.de/rare_music/composers/f_l/fricker_peter_racine/1.html . 2003-07-10 .
8. Book: Bachmann, Alberto. An Encyclopedia of the Violin. New York. Da Capo Press. 1975. 0-306-80004-7. 441.
9. Web site: Troisième sonate pour piano & violon, op. 9 / par Benjamin Godard . 2007 . University of Rochester . 1802/4128 . free.
10. Web site: Quatrième sonate pour piano et violon. Op. 12 . 2007 . University of Rochester . 1802/4138 . free.
11. Web site: Lace. Ian. Review: Hahn: Piano Quartet No. 3/Violin Sonata. Musicweb International. 2004. 2015-11-02. 2015-09-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906033624/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Apr04/Hahn_quartet3.htm. live.
12. Web site: Ernst-Krenek-Institute List of Works . 2007-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070626103705/http://www.krenek.com/cgi-bin/AllWerke.pl?lang=eng . 2007-06-26 .
13. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article_works/grove/music/22402?q=prokofiev&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1
14. Web site: Composers Worklist. Paterson. Robert. Robert Paterson (composer). 2015-11-02. 2016-01-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20160109092203/http://robertpaterson.com/sonata-no-1-for-violin-and-piano. live.
15. Web site: Review: Penderecki: Violin Sonatas No. 1 and 2. Smith. Simon. Musicweb International. 2004. 2015-11-02. 2015-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20150910141810/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jun04/penderecki_violin.htm. live.
16. Web site: McCabe . John . John McCabe (composer) . Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer . Oxford University Press . October 1999 . PDF . 2007-03-25 . 2007-09-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124340/http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198166931 . live .
17. Web site: Catalogue des oeuvres de Joseph Guy Ropartz. 2007-11-30. 2005. fr. 2007-02-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20070216091921/http://universfranckiste.free.fr/cor.htm. live.
18. Web site: Sonate in H moll für Violine und Pianoforte. Op. 110 . 2008 . University of Rochester . 1802/5442 . free.
19. Web site: BBC – Radio 3 – Composer of the Week: Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – 5: An English Dame. BBC Radio 3. July 16, 2004. 2007-03-25. 2005-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20050816190023/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cotw/pip/huppb/. live.
20. Dibble. Jeremy. Stanford: Music for Violin and Piano. Hyperion Records. CD. CDH55362. 2015-11-02. 2016-01-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20160109092204/http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/55362-B.pdf. live.
21. Web site: Review: Stanford: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano. France. John. Musicweb International. 2014. 2015-11-02. 2015-09-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906093525/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Jan14/Stanford_violin_SH100.htm. live.
22. Web site: Review: Korngold and Strauss – Sonatas Violin and Piano. Dixon. Troy O.. Erich Wolfgang Korngold Society. 2004. 2015-11-02. 2015-12-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20151204032222/http://www.korngold-society.org/review.html. live.
23. Web site: Announcement of Recording of Tailleferre Chamber Works . Records International . December 2002 . 2007-11-30 . 2007-12-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071212211310/http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogDec02.html . live.
24. Web site: Sonata [A minor] for Violin and Piano, Alice Tegnér (1864-1943) ]. Swedish Musical Heritage . 2023-11-18 . 2023-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231118041157/https://swedishmusicalheritage.com/composers/tegner-alice/SMH-W202-Sonata_A_minor_for_Violin_and_Piano . live.
25. Web site: Review: Tubin: Complete Music for Violin, Viola and Piano. Barnett. Rob. Musicweb International. 2002. 2015-11-02. 2015-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20150911190948/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/Tubin.htm. live.
26. Book: Mee, John Henry. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 1910. 370. vogler violin sonata.. 2008-01-11. Macmillan&Co. Ltd.. 407077. Tablature-Ye Banks and Braes. London. J. A. Fuller Maitland . George Grove.
27. Web site: Review: Widor: Works for Violin and Piano. Gualtieri. Tony. Classical-Music-Review.org. 2015-11-02. 2014-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20141007190715/http://www.classical-music-review.org/reviews/Widor.html. live.