Violin sonata

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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.

[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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    • Ireland Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
    • Ireland Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)
  • Joseph W. Jones
    • Violin Sonata, Op. 10 (2005)
  • 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) [7]
  • Jean-Marie Leclair
    • violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) [8]
  • 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) [12]
  • 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 [13] 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 [14]
    • 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 [15])
  • 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. ^ Schlüren, Christoph (October 2006). Peter Racine Fricker. MPH München. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  3. ^ Bachmann, Alberto (1975). An Encyclopedia of the Violin. New York: Da Capo Press, 441. ISBN 0306800047. 
  4. ^ Page with PDF of Godard 3rd Sonata in D minor. Durand (1880). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  5. ^ Page with PDF of Godard 4th Sonata in A flat. Berlin: Bote & Bock (1880). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  6. ^ Lace, Ian (April 2004). Review of recording of Hahn's violin sonata and third piano quartet. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  7. ^ Ernst-Krenek-Institute List of Works. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  8. ^ Wright, Dr David C F (October 2002). Jean-Marie Leclair by David Wright. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  9. ^ Barnett, Rob (July 2004). Review of Recording of Le Flem Sonata. MusicWeb. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  10. ^ WorldCat Entry for Le Flem Sonata. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  11. ^ McCabe, John (October 1999). Alan Rawsthorne: Portrait of a Composer (PDF). Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  12. ^ (French) Catalogue des oeuvres de Joseph Guy Ropartz (2005). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Description of Recording of the first two Stanford Sonatas. Hyperion Records. Retrieved on 2007-08-09.
  15. ^ Announcement of Recording of Tailleferre Chamber Works. Records International (December 2002). Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
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