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Violin Sonata - Definition and Overview |
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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
- Alexander Arutiunian
- Poem-sonata for violin and piano
- Kurt Atterberg
- sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) op. 27 in B minor
- 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
- Arnold Bax
- Three sonatas (in E, D, G minor) for violin and piano
- Sonata in F (alternate version of his Nonet)
- Ernest Bloch
- violin sonata no. 1
- violin sonata no. 2 Poeme Mystique
- 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
- Ferruccio Busoni
- violin sonata (early) in C
- violin sonata op. 29 in E minor
- violin sonata op. 36a 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
- Gabriel Fauré
- violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A
- violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E 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
- Vagn Holmboe
- violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935
- violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939
- violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965
- Ernst Krenek
- violin sonata in F-sharp
- two sonatas for solo violin
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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)
- 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# 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.)
- Josef Rheinberger
- violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat (1874)
- violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)
- Albert Roussel
- violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
- violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A
- Joseph Guy Ropartz
- several violin sonatas : #1 in D minor, #2 in E, #3 in A
- Edmund Rubbra
- violin sonata #1 op. 11
- violin sonata #2 op. 31
- violin sonata #3 op. 133
- 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)
- Franz Schubert
- violin sonatinas in D, A minor, G minor
- violin sonata in A
- Robert Schumann
- collaboration with Brahms and Albert Dietrich in F‐A‐E sonata for Joseph Joachim
- violin sonata #1 op. 105 in A minor
- violin sonata #2 op. 121 in D minor
- violin sonata #3 in A minor — second and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata
- Moisei Vainberg
- a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas
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