Violin sonata

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.

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) (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogJan98.html)
• Lera Auerbach
• Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Sikorski)
• Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Sikorski)
• Gra?yna 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) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/asv2.htm)
• Sonata No. 1 in E, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/deliussonata.htm, http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/asv2.htm)
• Sonata No. 2 in D, 1915/1921 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
• Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
• Sonata in F (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven — in particular
• Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)
• Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
• Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)
• Ernest Bloch
• violin sonata no. 1, 1920
• violin sonata no. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924
• Johannes Brahms
• (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, Rain Sonata op. 78, 1878–9
• violin sonata #2 in A, 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, 1876 (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Finlandia/2564610782)
• 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) (http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=30&callid=22&strchar=A)
• Arcangelo Corelli
• violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)
• John Corigliano
• violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) (http://www.schirmer.com/composers/corigliano_works.html)
• Claude Debussy
• violin sonata in G minor, 1917
• Frederick Delius
• violin sonata published posth., 1892 (http://members.fortunecity.com/wbthomp/jax1999.html)
• violin sonata no. 1, 1914
• violin sonata no. 2, 1923
• violin sonata no. 3, 1930 (http://kdfc.com/new/composers_detail.cfm?id=106, http://www.musica.co.uk/composers/Delius.htm)
• Edison Denisov
• sonata for violin solo, 1978
• violin sonata, 1963 (http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/denisov.htm)
• Ern? Dohnányi
• violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? (http://www.musicweb-international.com/Classpedia/Dohnanyi.htm)
• Antonín Dvořák
• violin sonata op. 57 in F, 1880
• violin sonatina op. 100 in G, 1893 (http://www.karadar.com/Cataloghi/dvorak.html)
• Edward Elgar
• violin sonata op. 82 in E minor
• George Enescu
• violin sonata fragment Torso
• violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D
• violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor
• violin sonata #3 on Popular Romanian themes op. 25 in A minor
• Einar Englund
• violin sonata (1979) (http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/d55c585fdb6dda91c22566b200448b1f?OpenDocument)
• Gabriel Fauré
• violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A
• violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor
• Zden?k Fibich
• violin sonata in D
• violin sonatina, op. 27
• Irving Fine
• violin sonata
• Nicolas Flagello
• violin sonata
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
• sonata quasi fantasia
• César Franck
• violin sonata in A
• Robert Fuchs
• six violin sonatas
• Niels Wilhelm Gade
• three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat
• Karl Goldmark
• violin sonata op. 25 in D major/B minor
• Edvard Grieg
• violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F
• violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G
• violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor
• Hans Gál
• violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogMay03.html)
• George Friedrich Handel
• several violin sonatas. Some are published as his op. 1 but 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
• Vincent d'Indy
• violin sonata op. 59 in C
• 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)
• Aram Khachaturian
• sonata for violin and piano
• Erich Korngold
• violin sonata op. 6 in D
• Ernst Krenek
• violin sonata in F-sharp
• two sonatas for solo violin
• Benjamin Lees
• three violin sonatas
• Pietro Locatelli
• sonatas for violin with continuo from opus 6 and opus 8
• Albéric Magnard
• violin sonata op. 13 in G
• Bohuslav Martin?
• violin sonatas 1, 2, 3
• Giuseppe Martucci
• violin sonata op. 22 in G minor
• William Mathias
• at least two violin sonatas
• Nikolai Medtner
• violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor
• violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G
• violin sonata #3 Epic op. 57 in E minor
• Felix Mendelssohn
• violin sonata in F
• violin sonata op. 4 in F minor
• violin sonata in F, 1838
• Peter Mennin
• sonata concertante
• Darius Milhaud
• at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• twenty-four (thirty?) 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:
• Sonata in C for Keyboard and Violin (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)
• Sonata in A for Violin and Keyboard (1787)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
• violin sonata op. 70 in F
• Oskar Nedbal
• violin sonata op. 9 in B minor
• Carl Nielsen
• early sonatas
• violin sonata op. 9 in A
• violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C
• Vít?zslav Novák
• violin sonata in D minor
• 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) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jun04/penderecki_violin.htm)
• Gabriel Pierné
• sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36
• Walter Piston
• violin sonata
• Francis Poulenc
• violin sonata
• Sergei Prokofiev
• sonata for two violins op. 56 in C
• violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor
• violin sonata #2 op. 94 in D (transcribed from flute sonata)
• sonata op. 115 for solo violin in D (also can be played by massed unison ensemble.)
• Joachim Raff
• five violin sonatas (op. 73 in E minor, op. 78 in A, op. 128 in D, op. 129 in one movement in G minor Chromatische and op. 145 in C minor)
• Maurice Ravel
• early violin sonata
• violin sonata in G
• 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
• violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A
• violin sonata #4 op. 72 in C (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
• 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 sometimes included, and the sonatas op. 103b are sometimes not.)
• Ottorino Respighi
• violin sonata in b
• Josef Rheinberger
• violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat (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, #3 in A (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogSep05.html)
• Albert Roussel
• violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
• violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A
• 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
• 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 (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 http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/NR_August05/502503.htm)
• Franz Schubert
• violin sonatinas in D, A minor, G minor
• violin sonata in A
• 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)
• Louis Spohr
• sonatas for violin and harp
• Richard Strauss
• Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat
• Karol Szymanowski
• Violin sonata op. 9 in D minor
• Sergei Taneyev
• Violin sonata in A minor
• Giuseppe Tartini
• Devil's Trill sonata
• Eduard Tubin
• Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)
• Violin sonata no. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)
• Solo violin sonata (1962) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/Tubin.htm)
• Moisei Vainberg
• a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• violin sonata in A minor
• Louis Vierne
• violin sonata in G minor op. 23 (1907)
• Carl Maria von Weber
• 6 violin sonatas, his op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)
• William Walton
• violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)
• Charles-Marie Widor
• two violin sonatas - #1 opus 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881), #2 opus 79 (1907 rev. 1937) (http://www.classical-music-review.org/reviews/Widor.html)
• Stefan Wolpe
• violin sonata
• Eugène Ysaÿe
• six sonatas for solo violin