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.
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- Lera Auerbach
- Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Skorski)
- Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
G
- 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]
- 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])
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- George Frideric Handel
- several violin sonatas. Some are published as his Op. 1 but possibly of varying authenticity.
- Vagn Holmboe
- Violin Sonata No. 1, M. 82, 1935
- Violin Sonata No. 2, M. 112, 1939
- Violin Sonata No. 3, M. 227, 1965
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- 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]
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- Jean-Marie Leclair
- violin sonatas (at least Opp. 1, 2, 5, and 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) [12]
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- 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
- Darius Milhaud
- at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord
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- Carl Nielsen
- early sonatas
- Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 9
- Violin Sonata in G minor/C major, Op. 35
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P
- Quincy Porter
- two violin sonatas (and a No. 0 posthumously published)
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- 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 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.)
- Josef Rheinberger
- Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 77 (1874)
- Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 105 (1877)
- Guy Ropartz
- several violin sonatas : No. 1 in D minor (1907), No. 2 in E major (1917), No. 3 in A major (1927) [16]
- 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
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- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 75 (1885)
- Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 102 (1896)
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
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- Germaine Tailleferre
- two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto [20])
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- 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.
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- 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])
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