Violin sonata

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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.

Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart and early Beethoven, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.

[edit] List of Violin sonatas

  • 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)
  • Johann Christian Bach
    • nine (opus 10 and opus 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin
  • 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])
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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])
  • 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
  • Zdeněk Fibich
    • violin sonata in D major
    • violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade
    • three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat major
  • 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])
  • George Friedrich Handel
    • several violin sonatas. Some are published as his op. 1 but possibly of varying authenticity.
  • Vagn Holmboe
    • violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935
    • violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939
    • violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965
  • John Ireland
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
    • Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)
  • 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) [9]
  • Jean-Marie Leclair
    • violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) [10]
  • 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
  • Darius Milhaud
    • at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord
  • Carl Nielsen
    • early sonatas
    • violin sonata op. 9 in A major
    • violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C major
  • Quincy Porter
    • two violin sonatas (and a #0 posthumously published)
  • 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)
  • 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.)
  • Josef Rheinberger
    • violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat major (1874)
    • violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)
  • Joseph Guy Ropartz
    • several violin sonatas : #1 in D minor (1907), #2 in E major (1917), #3 in A major (1927) [14]
  • 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)
  • Othmar Schoeck
    • violin sonata op. 16
    • violin sonata op. 46
    • violin sonata WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing [28])
  • 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)
  • 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 [16] and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)
  • 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 [17]
    • violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919
  • Germaine Tailleferre
    • two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto [18])
  • Eduard Tubin
    • Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)
    • Violin sonata no. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)
    • Solo violin sonata (1962) ([29])
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti
    • Six published sonatas opus 4 for violin and bass (about 1788), six without opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)
  • Charles-Marie Widor
    • two violin sonatas - #1 opus 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881), #2 opus 79 (1907 rev. 1937) ([30])

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Essentials of Music: Amy Beach. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  2. ^ Description page at University of Rochester Research for Fitelberg Second Violin Sonata. Warsaw: Gebethner i Wolff. Retrieved on 2008-05-17. Date for 2nd sonata comes from front page of PDF.
  3. ^ The Complete Works by Foerster for Violin and Piano. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.
  4. ^ Schlüren, Christoph (October 2006). Peter Racine Fricker. MPH München. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  5. ^ Bachmann, Alberto (1975). An Encyclopedia of the Violin. New York: Da Capo Press, 441. ISBN 0306800047. 
  6. ^ Page with PDF of Godard 3rd Sonata in D minor. Durand (1880). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  7. ^ Page with PDF of Godard 4th Sonata in A flat. Berlin: Bote & Bock (1880). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  8. ^ Lace, Ian (April 2004). Review of recording of Hahn's violin sonata and third piano quartet. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  9. ^ Ernst-Krenek-Institute List of Works. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  10. ^ Wright, Dr David C F (October 2002). Jean-Marie Leclair by David Wright. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  11. ^ Barnett, Rob (July 2004). Review of Recording of Le Flem Sonata. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  12. ^ WorldCat Entry for Le Flem Sonata. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  13. ^ McCabe, John (October 1999). Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer (PDF). Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  14. ^ (French) Catalogue des oeuvres de Joseph Guy Ropartz (2005). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  15. ^ Description Page for PDF of Philipp Scharwenka's Violin Sonata at University of Rochester Research. Breitkopf & Härtel. Retrieved on 2008-05-17.
  16. ^ BBC - Radio 3 - Composer of the Week: Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944) - 5: An English Dame. BBC Radio 3 (July 16, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  17. ^ Description of Recording of the first two Stanford Sonatas. Hyperion Records. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  18. ^ Announcement of Recording of Tailleferre Chamber Works. Records International (December 2002). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  19. ^ Mee, John Henry (1910). "Tablature-Ye Banks and Braes", in J. A. Fuller Maitland; George Grove: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan&Co. Ltd., 370. OCLC 407077. Retrieved on 2008-01-11.