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.

List of Violin sonatas

• 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) ([1])

• 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

• 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])

• Amy Beach
  • Violin sonata in A minor (1896) ^[1]

• 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)

• Heinrich Ignaz Biber
  • Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass

• 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

• Frank Bridge
  • violin sonata (1932)

• 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

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • violin sonata op. 28 in D minor

• Aaron Copland
  • violin sonata (1943) ([9])

• Arcangelo Corelli
  • violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)

• John Corigliano
  • violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([10])

• Claude Debussy
  • violin sonata in G minor, 1917

• 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])

• Edison Denisov
  • sonata for violin solo, 1978
  • violin sonata, 1963 ([14])

• Ernő Dohnányi
  • violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? ([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

• Zdeněk Fibich
  • violin sonata in D major
  • violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor

• Irving Fine
  • violin sonata

• Nicolas Flagello
  • violin sonata

• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • sonata quasi fantasia

• César Franck
  • violin sonata in A major

• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Violin sonata no. 1 op. 12 (1950)
  • Violin sonata no. 2 op. 94 (1987) ^[2]

• 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

• Benjamin Godard
  • Four violin sonatas (#1 op. 1, #2 op. 2, #3 op. 9 in D minor, #4 op. 12 in A-flat major)^[3][4][5]

• 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

• Hans Gál
  • violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) ([18])

• Reynaldo Hahn
  • sonata in C major (1926) ^[6]

• 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

• Bertold Hummel
  • violin sonata op. 6 (1952) [19]
  • violin sonatina op. 35a (1969) [20]
  • violin sonatina op. 107a (2001) [21]

• Vincent d'Indy
  • violin sonata op. 59 in C major

• John Ireland
  • Ireland Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
  • Ireland Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)

• Charles Ives
  • four violin sonatas

• Leoš Janáček
  • violin sonata

• André Jolivet
  • violin sonata (1932)

• Joseph W. Jones
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 10 (2005)

• 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) ^[7]

• Jean-Marie Leclair
  • violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) ^[8]

• Benjamin Lees
  • three violin sonatas

• Paul Le Flem
  • Violin sonata in G minor (1905)^[9][10]

• 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 (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:
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)
    • 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 (Czech)Novák worklist. Retrieved on 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

• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • violin sonata no. 1 (1953)
  • violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ([24])

• Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • Violin sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription [25])

• Gabriel Pierné
  • sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36

• Walter Piston
  • violin sonata (1939) ([26])
  • sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ([27])

• 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) ^[11]

• 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.)

• 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) ^[12]

• 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)

• 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 [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)

• Roger Sessions
  • sonata for solo violin

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • violin sonata, op. 134 (1975)

• 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 ^[13] 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 ^[14]
  • violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919

• Richard Strauss
  • Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat major (1887) (Review of a compact disc containing the Strauss and Korngold)

• 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 ^[15])

• 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) ([29])

• 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)

• Carl Maria von Weber
  • 6 violin sonatas, op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)

• William Walton
  • violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)

• 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) ([30])

• Stefan Wolpe
  • violin sonata (1949)

• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • six sonatas for solo violin

See also

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.