List of violin sonatas

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 (c. 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
  • 5 violin sonatas with piano
  • 2 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 solo violin, 1944
• Arnold Bax
  • Violin Sonata in G minor (1901) (recently recorded on ASV but a rarity) ()
  • Sonata No. 1 in E major, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 (, )
  • Sonata No. 2 in D major, 1915/1921 ()
  • Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ()
  • Sonata in F major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ()
• Amy Beach
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (1896)^[3]

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 10 sonatas:
    • 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
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Sonata for violin and piano (1978)
• Flint Juventino Beppe
  • Violin Sonata No.1 Op.50 (1999)
  • Violin Sonata No.2 Op.56 (2000)
• 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, 1886–88
• James Francis Brown
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (2001. Rev 2003)^[4]
• Frank Bridge
  • Violin Sonata (1932)
• Ferruccio Busoni
  • violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 ()
  • 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) ()
• Arcangelo Corelli
  • violin sonatas with continuo (Op. 5, Nos. 1–12)
• John Corigliano
  • Violin Sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ()

D

• Claude Debussy
  • Violin Sonata in G minor, 1917
• Frederick Delius
  • Violin Sonata published posth., 1892 ()
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, 1914
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, 1923
  • Violin Sonata No. 3, 1930 (, )
• Edison Denisov
  • Sonata for violin solo, 1978
  • Violin Sonata, 1963 ()
• Ernő Dohnányi
  • Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 21, 1913? ()
• Avner Dorman
  • Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 2004
  • Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano, 2008
  • Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano, 2011
• Lucien Durosoir
  • Violin Sonata in A major, 1921 ()
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57, 1880
  • Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, 1893 ()

E

• Edward Elgar
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82
• Edward Kravchuk
  • Violin Sonata No. 1
• 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) ()
• Iván Eröd
  • 1st Sonata op. 14 (1970)
  • 2nd Sonata op. 74 (2000)

F

• Gabriel Fauré
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108
• Mohammed Fairouz
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (2011)
• 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)^[5]
• Irving Fine
  • Violin Sonata
• Nicolas Flagello
  • Violin Sonata
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Sonata No. 1, Op. 10^[6]
  • Sonata No. 2, sonata quasi fantasia, Op. 177
• César Franck
  • Violin Sonata in A major, M. 8
• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1950)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94 (1987)^[7]

• Robert Fuchs
  • six violin sonatas
• Wilhelm Furtwängler
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1935)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1939)

G

• Niels Wilhelm Gade
  • three sonatas: Op. 6 in A, Op. 21 in D minor, Op. 59 in B-flat major
• Hans Gál
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 17 (also at least one other) ()
• Friedrich Gernsheim
  • four violin sonatas
• Joseph Gibbs
  • Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748
• Philip Glass
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
• 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)^[8][9][10]

• 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
• Jorge Grundman
  • What Inspires Poetry. Violin and Piano Sonata (2008)
  • Warhol in Springtime. Violin and Piano Sonata (2011)
  • White Sonata: The Child Who Never Wanted to Grow Up. Violin and Piano Sonata (2012)
• Phyllis Gummer
  • Violin sonata

H

• Reynaldo Hahn
  • Sonata in C major (1926)^[11]
• 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 and piano (1946)
  • Sonata for violin solo (1977; revised 1992)
  • Sonatina for violin and piano (1979) [from the opera Pollicino]
• Paul Hindemith
  • sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano
• C. René Hirschfeld
  • sonata concertante for violin and piano (2006)
• 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)
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 35a (1969)
  • Violin Sonatina, Op. 107a (2001)

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) ^[12]
• 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, 1947)^[13][14]
• Toivo Kuula
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 1 (1907)

L

• Edouard Lalo
  • Violin Sonata in D major, Op.12
• Jean-Marie Leclair
  • violin sonatas (at least Opp. 1, 2, 5, and 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute)
• Benjamin Lees
  • 3 Violin Sonatas
• Paul Le Flem
  • Violin Sonata in G minor (1905)
• Kenneth Leighton
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 4 (1949)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 (1953)
• Guillaume Lekeu
  • Violin Sonata in G major (1892/93)
• Lowell Liebermann
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.46 (1994)
• Douglas Lilburn
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat (1943)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in C (1943)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 Sonata-Fantasy No. 1, Désespérance
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 Sonata-Fantasy
  • Violin Sonata No. 3
• 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
  • three 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 Epica in E minor, Op. 57
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Violin Sonata in F major, 1820
  • 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 (1762–64)
    • Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (1764–65)
    • Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31 (1766)
    • Violin Sonata No. 35
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 70 (1946–47) ()

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). 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
• Hubert Parry
  • Fantasy-Sonata in B minor for violin & pianoforte (c. 1878)
  • Violin Sonata in D major (1889)
• Robert Paterson
  • Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (2003) ^[15]
• Dora Pejačević
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major 'Frühlings-Sonate' Op. 26 (1909)
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor 'Slawische Sonate' Op. 43 (1917)
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1953) ^[16]
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (2000) ^[16]
• Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription )
• Gabriel Pierné
  • Sonata for violin (or flute), Op. 36
• Walter Piston
  • Violin Sonata (1939) ()
  • Sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ()
• Quincy Porter
  • two violin sonatas (and a No. 0 posthumously published)
• Francis Poulenc
  • Violin Sonata (1943)
• Gerhard Präsent
  • Sonata del Gesù op. 35 (1997–99)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Sonata for two violins in C major, Op. 56
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 (1946)
  • 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
  • Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 73
  • Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 78
  • Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 128
  • Violin Sonata in G minor Chromatische, Op. 129 (One movement)
  • Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 145
• Maurice Ravel
  • early violin sonata
  • Violin Sonata in G major
• Alan Rawsthorne
  • Violin Sonata (1958)^[17]

• 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)^[18]
• John Luke Rose
  • Violin sonata op.28 (1973)
• 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)^[19]
• Xaver Scharwenka
  • Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 2
• Florent Schmitt
  • Sonate libre en deux parties enchaînées (ad modum clementis aquæ) Op.68, vn, pf (1918–19)
• 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 )
• 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
• Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (1974)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (2009)
• Alexander Shchetynsky
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1990)
  • Sonata for Solo Violin (2009)
• 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)
• Fredrik Sixten
  • Sonata for violin and piano
• Nikos Skalkottas
  • Sonata for solo violin (1925)
  • 2nd Violin Sonata (1940)
  • Sonatinas nos. 1–4 (1928–35)
• 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^[20] and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)
• Louis Spohr
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in B-flat major, Op. 16
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 113
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in E-flat major, Op. 114
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in A-flat major, Op. 115
  • Sonata for Violin and Harp in C minor, WoO. 23
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 11, 1877? (notes for another recording give 1880)^[21]
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 70, 1898^[21]
  • Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 1, 1919 (Lost)^[22]
  • Sonata for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 165, No. 2, 1919 (Lost)^[22]
• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 19 (1899/1900)
• Richard Strauss
  • Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 (1887) ^[12]
• 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^[23])

• 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) ^[24]
• Joaquín Turina
  • Sonate Espagnole (1908)
  • Sonata No.1, Op. 51
  • Sonata No.2, Op. 82

V

• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Violin Sonata in A minor
• Carlos Veerhoff
  • Violin sonata op.47 (1982)
• 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^[25]

W

• Henry Walford Davies
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat major (1893–95)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major (1893–95)
  • Violin Sonata No. 3 in E minor, Op. 5 (1894) ^{[n 1]}
  • Violin Sonata No. 4 in D minor, Op. 7 (1896) ^{[n 2]}
  • Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major (1899) ^{[n 3]}
• William Walton
  • Violin Sonata (1949/rev 1950)
• Carl Maria von Weber
  • 6 violin sonatas, J 99-104, Op. 10: F, D minor, G, E flat, A major-minor, C (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) ^[27]
• Józef Wieniawski
  • Violin Sonata (1860)
• Stefan Wolpe
  • Violin Sonata (1949)
• Charles Wuorinen
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano (1988)

Y

• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • Six Sonatas for solo violin, Op. 27

Z

• Carlo Zuccari
  • 12 Sonate per violino é basso ò cembalo Op. 1 (Milano 1747)

See also

• String instrument repertoire
• List of compositions for two violins

References

External links

• The Canon of Violin Literature