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

• Ella Adayevskaya
  • Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano (1880)^[1]

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) in F-sharp minor, Op. 21 (ca. 1840)

• Alexander Arutiunian
  • Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)

• Kurt Atterberg
  • Sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) in B minor, Op. 27 (1925)^[2]

• Lera Auerbach
  • Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Skorski)
  • Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)

B

• 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 (Opp. 10 and 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) ([1])
  • Sonata No. 1 in E major, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 ([2], [3])
  • Sonata No. 2 in D major, 1915/1921 ([4])
  • Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([5])
  • Sonata in F major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ([6])

• Amy Beach
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (1896) ^[3]

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven — in particular
    • Violin Sonata No. 1
    • Violin Sonata No. 2
    • Violin Sonata No. 3
    • Violin Sonata No. 4
    • Violin Sonata No. 5
    • Violin Sonata No. 6
    • Violin Sonata No. 7
    • Violin Sonata No. 8
    • Violin Sonata No. 9
    • Violin Sonata No. 10

• 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 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, 1886–8

• 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

C

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 28

• Aaron Copland
  • Violin Sonata (1943) ([8])

• Arcangelo Corelli
  • violin sonatas with continuo (Op. 5, Nos. 1-12)

• John Corigliano
  • Violin Sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([9])

D

• Claude Debussy
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, 1917

• Frederick Delius
  • Violin Sonata published posth., 1892 ([10])
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, 1914
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, 1923
  • Violin Sonata No. 3, 1930 ([11], [12])

• Edison Denisov
  • Sonata for violin solo, 1978
  • Violin Sonata, 1963 ([13])

• Ernő Dohnányi
  • Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 21, 1913? ([14])

• Lucien Durosoir
  • Violin Sonata in A major, 1921 ([15])

• Antonín Dvořák
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57, 1880
  • Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, 1893 ([16])

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 on Popular Romanian themes in A minor, Op. 25

• Sven Einar Englund
  • Violin Sonata (1979) ([17])

F

• Gabriel Fauré
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108

• Leonid Feigin
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1963)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (1981)

• 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)^[4]

• Irving Fine
  • Violin Sonata

• Nicolas Flagello
  • Violin Sonata

• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Sonata No. 1, Op. 10^[5]
  • Sonata No. 2, sonata quasi fantasia, Op. 177

• César Franck
  • Violin Sonata in A major

• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1950)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94 (1987) ^[6]

• Robert Fuchs
  • six violin sonatas

G

• 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

• 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)^[7][8][9]

• Karl Goldmark
  • Violin Sonata in D major/B minor, Op. 25

• Edvard Grieg
  • Three sonatas:
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 8
    • Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13
    • Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45

• Hans Gál
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 17 (also at least one other) ([18])

H

• Reynaldo Hahn
  • Sonata in C major (1926) ^[10]

• George Frideric 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 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) [19]
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 35a (1969) [20]
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 107a (2001) [21]

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

• David Johnstone
  • Sonata for violin solo (pub.2008)

• André Jolivet
  • Violin Sonata (1932)

K

• Aram Khachaturian
  • Sonata for violin and piano

• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 6 (1912) ([22])

• Ernst Krenek
  • Violin Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 3 (1919)
  • 6 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, 1948) ^[11]

L

• Jean-Marie Leclair
  • violin sonatas (at least Opp. 1, 2, 5, and 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) ^[12]

• Benjamin Lees
  • three violin sonatas

• Paul Le Flem
  • Violin Sonata in G minor (1905)^[13][14]

• Lowell Liebermann
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.46 (1994)

• 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
  • at least two 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
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 Epic in E minor, Op. 57

• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Violin Sonata in F major
  • Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4
  • 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 (1762 – 1764)
    • Violin Sonatas, KV 10-15 (1764 – 1765)
    • Violin Sonatas, KV 26-31 (1766)
    • Violin Sonata No. 35

• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 70 (1946-7) ([23])

N

• 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 "Novák worklist" (in Czech). http://www.vitezslavnovak.cz/tabulka.html. Retrieved 2007-01-13. )

O

• Leo Ornstein
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)

P

• Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 13

• 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

• Walter Piston
  • Violin Sonata (1939) ([27])
  • Sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ([28])

• Quincy Porter
  • two violin sonatas (and a No. 0 posthumously published)

• Francis Poulenc
  • Violin Sonata

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Sonata for two violins in C major, Op. 56
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
  • 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
  • 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 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 B minor

• Josef Rheinberger
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 77 (1874)
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 105 (1877)

• George Rochberg
  • Violin Sonata

• Guy Ropartz
  • several violin sonatas : No. 1 in D minor (1907), No. 2 in E major (1917), No. 3 in A major (1927) ^[16]

• Nikolai Roslavets
  • Violin Sonatas 1-6

• 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 in D minor, Op. 75 (1885)
  • Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 102 (1896)

• Philipp Scharwenka
  • Violin Sonata in B minor, Op. 110 (by 1900)^[17]

• Xaver Scharwenka
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2

• Alfred Schnittke
  • Violin Sonatas Nos. 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

• Ervin Schulhoff
  • Violin Sonata Op.7 (1913)
  • 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 — third and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata (1853)

• Roger Sessions
  • Sonata for Solo Violin

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 134 (1968)

• Jean Sibelius
  • Violin Sonata in F major, JS 178 (1889)

• 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, Op. 11, 1877? (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 in A minor, Op. 19 (1899/1900)

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

• 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 ^[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])

V

• 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 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 recently (1970s) discovered 'Manchester Sonatas'. Also the Op. 1 twelve sonatas, though these are for two violins and technically are trio sonatas.

• Georg Joseph Vogler
  • Six Sonatas Op. 3^[21]

W

• 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

• Herman Whitfield III
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (2003)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (2008)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (2010)

• Charles-Marie Widor
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 79 (1907 rev. 1937) ([31])

• Stefan Wolpe
  • Violin Sonata (1949)

Y

• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • six sonatas for solo violin

See also

References