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A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass
Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate interval , chord s, and nonchord tones, in relation to a bass note....
 in the Baroque period
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
.

Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
 and early Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.








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A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass
Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate interval , chord s, and nonchord tones, in relation to a bass note....
 in the Baroque period
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
.

Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
 and early Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.

List of Violin sonatas


  • Charles-Valentin Alkan
    Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Charles-Valentin Alkan was a France composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work....
    • Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) op. 21 in F-sharp minor (ca. 1840)


  • Alexander Arutiunian
    Alexander Arutiunian

    Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian, also known as Arutunian or Harutiunian is an Armenian composer and pianist, Professor of Yerevan State Conservatory, widely-known particularly for his Arutunian Trumpet Concerto described as flashy by the New York Times....
    • Poem-sonata for violin and piano (1985)


  • Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Atterberg

    Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Sweden composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes....
    • sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) op. 27 in B minor (1925) ()


  • Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach

    Lera Auerbach is one of the most widely performed composers of her generation.She was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural Mountains bordering Siberia....
    • Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Skorski)
    • Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)


  • Grazyna Bacewicz
    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Grazyna Bacewicz was a Poland composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century....
    • five violin sonatas with piano
    • two solo sonatas


  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a Germany musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was one of the founders of the Classical music era style, composing in the Galante music and Classical periods....
    • 12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard


  • Johann Christian Bach
    Johann Christian Bach

    Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical music era era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital....
    • nine (opus 10 and opus 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin


  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
    • 3 solo sonatas (and 3 partitas)
    • 6 violin sonatas with keyboard (also 3 with continuo)


  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
    • 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
      Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)

      The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117, BB 124, is a sonata for unaccompanied violin composed by Bartok....
      , 1943


  • Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax

    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Royal Victorian Order , was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romantic music and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence....
    • 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
    Amy Beach

    Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an United States composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music....
    • Violin sonata in A minor (1896)


  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    • 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven
      List of works by Beethoven

      The musical works of Ludwig van Beethoven are listed below. Two different, overlapping lists of Beethoven's works are presented here. The first is a listing of his most well-known works classified by genre....
       — in particular
      • Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 1 of Ludwig van Beethoven in D major, the first of his Opus 12 set, was written in 1798 in music and dedicated to Antonio Salieri....
      • Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 2 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A major, the second of his Opus 12 set, was written in 1797 in music-1798 in music and dedicated to Antonio Salieri....
      • Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 3 of Ludwig van Beethoven in E-flat major, the third of his Opus 12 set, was written in 1798 in music and dedicated to Antonio Salieri....
      • Violin Sonata No. 4 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 4 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 4 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A minor, his Opus 23, was composed in 1801 in music, published in October that year, and dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries....
      • Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata, and was published in 1801 in music....
      • Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A major, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803 in music, and dedicated to Alexander I of Russia....
      • Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his opus number 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Alexander I of Russia....
      • Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major of Ludwig van Beethoven, the third of his Opus 30 set, was written between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803 in music, and dedicated to Alexander I of Russia....
      • Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)

        Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata, is a violin sonata which Ludwig van Beethoven published in 1802 in music as his Opus 47....
      • Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)
        Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)

        The Violin Sonata No. 10 of Ludwig van Beethoven in G major, his Opus 96, was written in 1812 in music, published in 1816, and dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Rudolph of Austria , who gave its first performance, together with the violinist Pierre Rode....


  • Heinrich Ignaz Biber
    Heinrich Ignaz Biber

    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist....
    • Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass


  • Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch was a Switzerland-born United States composer....
    • violin sonata no. 1, 1920
    • violin sonata no. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924


  • Theodor Blumer
    Theodor Blumer

    Theodor Anton Blumer was a Germany composer and Conducting. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory....
    • Violin Sonata


  • Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    • Sonatensatz (sonata scherzo in C minor, for the 'F-A-E' Sonata
      'F-A-E' Sonata

      The F-A-E Sonata, a four-movement work for violin and piano, is an interesting example of a collaborative effort by three composers. It was composed in D?sseldorf in October 1853 by Robert Schumann, the young Johannes Brahms and Schumann?s pupil Albert Dietrich....
       collaborative sonata undertaken by Dietrich, Schumann and Brahms - 1853)
    • (early A minor sonata, lost, reported by Remenyi)
    • violin sonata #1 in G major, Rain Sonata op. 78, 1878–79
    • violin sonata #2 in A major, Thun op. 100, 1886
    • violin sonata #3 in D minor, op. 108, 1886–8


  • Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge

    Frank Bridge was an English composer....
    • violin sonata (1932)


  • Ferruccio Busoni
    Ferruccio Busoni

    Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conducting....
    • violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 ()
    • violin sonata op. 29 in E minor, 1890
    • violin sonata op. 36a in E minor, 1898


  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an United Kingdom composer who achieved such success he was called the "African Gustav Mahler"....
    • violin sonata op. 28 in D minor


  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
    • violin sonata (1943) ()


  • Arcangelo Corelli
    Arcangelo Corelli

    Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music....
    • violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)


  • John Corigliano
    John Corigliano

    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
    • violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ()


  • Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    • violin sonata
      Violin Sonata (Debussy)

      The Violin Sonata in G minor, L 140, for violin and piano was composed by Claude Debussy in 1917. It would be the composer's final composition before his death in 1918 from colorectal cancer, forming the third work in what had originally been conceived as a cycle of six sonatas for various instruments....
       in G minor, 1917


  • Frederick Delius
    Frederick Delius

    Frederick Albert Theodore Delius Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer....
    • violin sonata published posth., 1892 ()
    • violin sonata no. 1, 1914
    • violin sonata no. 2, 1923
    • violin sonata no. 3, 1930 (, )


  • Edison Denisov
    Edison Denisov

    Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground culture" ? "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music....
    • sonata for violin solo, 1978
    • violin sonata, 1963 ()


  • Erno Dohnányi
    Erno Dohnányi

    Erno Dohn?nyi was a Hungary Conducting, composer, and pianist.He used the German form of his name "Ernst von Dohn?nyi" on most of his published compositions....
    • violin sonata op. 21 in C-sharp minor 1913? ()


  • Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    • violin sonata op. 57 in F major, 1880
    • violin sonatina
      Violin Sonatina (Dvorák)

      The Sonatina in G major for violin and piano, opus number 100, Jarmil Burghauser 183, was written by Anton?n Dvor?k between November 19 and December 3, 1893 in music, in New York City....
       op. 100 in G major, 1893 ()


  • Edward Elgar
    Edward Elgar

    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
    • violin sonata op. 82 in E minor


  • George Enescu
    George Enescu

    George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conducting and teacher, preeminent Romanian musician of the 20th century, and one of the greatest performers of his time....
    • violin sonata fragment Torso
    • violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D major
    • violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor
    • violin sonata #3 on Popular Romanian themes op. 25 in A minor


  • Sven Einar Englund
    Sven Einar Englund

    Sven Einar Englund was a Finland composer....
    • violin sonata (1979) ()


  • Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    • violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A major
    • violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor


  • Zdenek Fibich
    Zdenek Fibich

    Zdenek Fibich was a List of Czech composers of european classical music, including chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphony, at least seven operas, the most famous probably ??rka and The Bride of Messina; melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a Mass - a missa brevis; and...
    • violin sonata in D major
    • violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor


  • Grzegorz Fitelberg
    Grzegorz Fitelberg

    Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Mloda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir R?zycki and Mieczyslaw Karlowicz....
    • at least two violin sonatas (A minor, op. 2, F major, op. 12: by 1905)


  • Irving Fine
    Irving Fine

    Irving Gifford Fine was an United States composer. Fine's work assimilated Neoclassicism_%28music%29, Romanticism#romanticism_and_music and, later, serial_music elements....
    • violin sonata


  • Nicolas Flagello
    Nicolas Flagello

    Nicolas Flagello was an United States composer of classical music.Flagello was born in New York City, into a very musical family. His brother Ezio Flagello was a bass who sang at the Metropolitan Opera....
    • violin sonata


  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster
    Josef Bohuslav Foerster

    Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czechs composer of European classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled F?rster....
    • sonata no. 1, op. 10
    • sonata no. 2, sonata quasi fantasia op. 177


  • Robert Fuchs
    Robert Fuchs

    Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
    • six violin sonatas


  • Niels Wilhelm Gade
    Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Niels Wilhelm Gade was a Denmark composer, conducting, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day....
    • three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat major


  • Friedrich Gernsheim
    Friedrich Gernsheim

    Friedrich Gernsheim was a Germany composer, conducting and pianist. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr....
    • four violin sonatas


  • Joseph Gibbs
    Joseph Gibbs

    Joseph Gibbs , was an England composer.Joseph Gibbs was not a prolific composer, but he was a not entirely unknown. He was born in Dedham, Essex in 1699, though not much more has been traced of Gibbs until 1748....
    • Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748


  • Benjamin Godard
    Benjamin Godard

    Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a France violinist and Romanticism composer....
    • Four violin sonatas (#1 op. 1, #2 op. 2, #3 op. 9 in D minor, #4 op. 12 in A-flat major)


  • Karl Goldmark
    Karl Goldmark

    Karl Goldmark, also known originally as K?roly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; 18 May 1830 – 2 January 1915) was a Hungary composer....
    • violin sonata op. 25 in D major/B minor


  • Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg was a Norway composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto , for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces....
    • Three sonatas
      Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Grieg)

      The three Sonatas for violin and piano by Edvard Grieg were written between 1865 and 1887.*Violin Sonata No. 1 in F major, opus number 8 was written in Copenhagen in 1865....
      :
      • violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F major
      • violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G major
      • violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor


  • Hans Gál
    Hans Gál

    Hans G?l was an Austrian composer, teacher and pianist.Hans G?l was born in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, just outside Vienna. He was trained in that metropolis at the New Vienna Conservatory where he taught for some time....
    • violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) ()


  • Reynaldo Hahn
    Reynaldo Hahn

    Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalization France composer, conducting, music critic and diarist. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the m?lodie....
    • sonata in C major (1926)


  • George Friedrich Handel
    • several violin sonatas. Some are published as his op. 1 but possibly of varying authenticity.


  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann
    Karl Amadeus Hartmann

    Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a Germany composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphony of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries....
    • sonatas for violin solo


  • Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze

    Hans Werner Henze is a German composing well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality....
    • sonata for violin solo (1977)


  • Paul Hindemith
    Paul Hindemith

    Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
    • sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano


  • Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Holmboe

    Vagn Gylding Holmboe, was a Denmark composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neoclassicism style....
    • violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935
    • violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939
    • violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965


  • Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger

    Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
    • sonatas #s '0' – '2'


  • Herbert Howells
    Herbert Howells

    Herbert Norman Howells Order of the Companions of Honour was an English composer, organ , and teacher....
    • three violin sonatas


  • Bertold Hummel
    Bertold Hummel

    Bertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music....
    • violin sonata op. 6 (1952)
    • violin sonatina op. 35a (1969)
    • violin sonatina op. 107a (2001)


  • Vincent d'Indy
    Vincent d'Indy

    Paul Marie Th?odore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher....
    • violin sonata op. 59 in C major


  • John Ireland
    John Ireland (composer)

    John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer....
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
    • Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)


  • Charles Ives
    Charles Ives

    Charles Edward Ives was an American musical modernism composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance....
    • four violin sonatas


  • Leoš Janácek
    Leoš Janácek

    Leo? Jan?cek , was a Czech people composer, Music theory, Folkloristics, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style....
    • violin sonata


  • André Jolivet
    André Jolivet

    Andr? Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times....
    • violin sonata (1932)


  • Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Khachaturian

    Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
    • sonata for violin and piano


  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
    • violin sonata op. 6 in G major (1912) ()


  • Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek

    Ernst Krenek was an Austrian composer. He explored atonality and other Contemporary classical music styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music ....
    • violin sonata in F-sharp major, op. 3 (1919)
    • 6 sonatinas for violin and piano (without opus number 61. 1921)
    • violin sonata no. 2, op. 99 (1945)
    • two sonatas for solo violin (op. 33, 1925 and op. 115, 1948)


  • Jean-Marie Leclair
    Jean-Marie Leclair

    Jean-Marie Leclair, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school....
    • violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute)


  • Benjamin Lees
    Benjamin Lees

    Benjamin Lees is a contemporary United States composer of european classical music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and currently residing in Palm Springs, California, California....
    • three violin sonatas


  • Paul Le Flem
    Paul Le Flem

    Paul Le Flem was a French composer and musician. Born in Brittany, Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and Andr? Jolivet....
    • Violin sonata in G minor (1905)


  • Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann

    'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
    • Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.46 (1994)


  • Pietro Locatelli
    Pietro Locatelli

    Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian composer and violinist....
    • sonatas for violin with continuo from opus 6 and opus 8


  • Albéric Magnard
    Albéric Magnard

    Lucien Denis Gabriel Alb?ric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Anton Bruckner."...
    • violin sonata op. 13 in G major


  • Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinu

    Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
    • violin sonatas 1, 2, 3


  • Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci

    Giuseppe Martucci was an Italians composer, conductor , pianist and teacher. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy, and also gave important early concerts of English music there....
    • violin sonata op. 22 in G minor


  • William Mathias
    William Mathias

    William Mathias Order of the British Empire was a Wales composer....
    • at least two violin sonatas


  • John Blackwood McEwen
    John Blackwood McEwen

    Sir John Blackwood McEwen was a Scotland classical composer. He is best known for orcherstral works on his native Galloway, such as ??A Solway Symphony?? , ??Hills o'Heather?? and ??Where the Wild Thyme Blows?? ....
    • at least six violin sonatas (#6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press)


  • Nikolai Medtner
    Nikolai Medtner

    Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano....
    • violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor
    • violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G major
    • violin sonata #3 Epic op. 57 in E minor


  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    • violin sonata in F major
    • violin sonata op. 4 in F minor
    • violin sonata in F major, 1838


  • Peter Mennin
    Peter Mennin

    Peter Mennin was an United States composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the The Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role....
    • sonata concertante


  • Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud

    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
    • at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord


  • Ernest John Moeran
    Ernest John Moeran

    Ernest John Moeran was an England composer....
    • Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor


  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    • some thirty-six 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:
      • Violin Sonata No. 1 (Mozart) (1762 – 1764)
      • Violin Sonata No. 35 (Mozart)


  • Nikolai Myaskovsky
    Nikolai Myaskovsky

    Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony"....
    • violin sonata op. 70 in F major (1946-7) ()


  • Oskar Nedbal
    Oskar Nedbal

    Oskar Nedbal was a Czechs violist, composer, and conducting of european classical music....
    • violin sonata op. 9 in B minor


  • Carl Nielsen
    Carl Nielsen

    Carl August Nielsen was a conducting, violinist, and composer from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in Britain," noted the critic Alex Ross in 2008 in The New Yorker, and rising young conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel and Alan G...
    • early sonatas
    • violin sonata op. 9 in A major
    • violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C major


  • Vítezslav Novák
    Vítezslav Novák

    V?tezslav Nov?k was one of the most well-respected Czech Republic composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition....
    • violin sonata in D minor (his 27th work, unpublished )


  • Leo Ornstein
    Leo Ornstein

    Leo Ornstein , was a leading American Experimental music composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause c?l?bre on both sides of the Atlantic....
    • Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)


  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski
    Ignacy Jan Paderewski

    Ignacy Jan Paderewski Order of the British Empire was a Poland pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the third Prime Minister of Poland....
    • violin sonata op. 13 in A minor


  • Niccolň Paganini
    Niccolň Paganini

    Niccol? Paganini was an Italy violinist, viola, classical guitar, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique....
    • Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar


  • Robert Paterson
    Robert Paterson

    Robert Paterson may refer to:* Robert Paterson , Scottish stonemason* Robert Paterson , Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man, Isle of Man* Robert Paterson , American composer...
    • Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano


  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki

    Krzysztof Penderecki is a Poland composer and conducting of European classical music....
    • violin sonata no. 1 (1953)
    • violin sonata no. 2 (2000) ()


  • Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
    Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

    Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was a Sweden composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Edvard Grieg, August S?derman and Richard Wagner as well as Swedish folk idiom....
    • Violin sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription )


  • Gabriel Pierné
    Gabriel Pierné

    Henri Constant Gabriel Piern? was a France composer, conductor , and organist....
    • sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36


  • Walter Piston
    Walter Piston

    Walter Hamor Piston Jr. was an American composer and music theorist....
    • violin sonata (1939) ()
    • sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) ()


  • Quincy Porter
    Quincy Porter

    Quincy Porter was an United States composer and teacher of european classical music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included Horatio Parker....
    • two violin sonatas (and a #0 posthumously published)


  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    • violin sonata


  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    • sonata for two violins op. 56 in C major
    • violin sonata #1
      Violin Sonata No. 1 (Prokofiev)

      Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80, written between 1938 and 1946 , is one of the darkest and most brooding of the composer's works....
       op. 80 in F minor
    • violin sonata #2
      Violin Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev)

      Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a, was based on the composer's own Flute Sonata in D , Op. 94, written in 1942 but arranged for violin in 1943 when Prokofiev was living in Perm in the Ural Mountains, a remote shelter for Soviet artists during the World War II....
       op. 94 in D major (transcribed from flute sonata)
    • sonata op. 115 for solo violin in D major (also can be played by massed unison ensemble.)


  • Joachim Raff
    Joachim Raff

    Joseph Joachim Raff was a Switzerland composer, teacher and pianist....
    • 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
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    • early violin sonata
    • violin sonata in G major


  • Alan Rawsthorne
    Alan Rawsthorne

    Alan Rawsthorne was a United Kingdom composer....
    • violin sonata (1958)


  • Max Reger
    Max Reger

    Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, Conducting, pianist, organist, and teacher....
    • 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 major
      • violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A major
      • violin sonata #4 op. 72 in C major (gave rise to a scandal at its premiere with a work by Ludwig Thuille
        Ludwig Thuille

        Ludwig Thuille was a German composer and pedagogue who was for a short time numbered among the leading operatic composers of the 'Munich School' whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss....
        )
      • 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 major
      • 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 major sometimes included, and the sonatas op. 103b are sometimes not.)


  • Carl Reinecke
    Carl Reinecke

    Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a Danemark composer, Conducting, and pianist....
    • one violin sonata, op. 116 in E minor


  • Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi

    Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and Conducting. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals"....
    • violin sonata in b minor


  • Josef Rheinberger
    Josef Rheinberger

    Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer.When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year....
    • violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat major (1874)
    • violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)


  • George Rochberg
    George Rochberg

    George Rochberg, was an United States composer of contemporary classical music....
    • violin sonata


  • Joseph Guy Ropartz
    Joseph Guy Ropartz

    Joseph Guy Ropartz was a French composer and conducting. His compositions included five symphony, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio , stage works, a number of choir works and other music including a Pr?lude, Marine et Chansons for flute, harp and string trio....
    • several violin sonatas : #1 in D minor (1907), #2 in E major (1917), #3 in A major (1927)


  • Nikolai Roslavets
    Nikolai Roslavets

    Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets was a significant Soviet Union modernist composer of Ukrainian ethnicity in the period just before and just after the October Revolution....
    • Violin Sonatas 1-6


  • Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
    • violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
    • violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A major


  • Edmund Rubbra
    Edmund Rubbra

    Edmund Rubbra was a United Kingdom composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras....
    • violin sonata #1 op. 11 (1925)
    • violin sonata #2 op. 31 (1931)
    • violin sonata #3 op. 133 (premiered 1968)


  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein

    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and Conducting. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos....
    • violin sonata op. 13 in G major
    • violin sonata op. 19 in A minor
    • violin sonata op. 98 in B minor


  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    • violin sonata op. 75 in D minor (1885)
    • violin sonata op. 102 in E flat major (1896)


  • Philipp Scharwenka
    Philipp Scharwenka

    Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka was a Poland-Germany composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka....
    • violin sonata op. 110 in B minor (by 1900)


  • Xaver Scharwenka
    Xaver Scharwenka

    Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a Germany pianist and composer. He founded his own music school in Berlin and New York City, and also organised concert series....
    • violin sonata op. 2 in D minor


  • Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke

    Alfred Garyevich Schnittke was a Russian and Soviet Union composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich....
    • violin sonatas #s 1,2,3


  • Othmar Schoeck
    Othmar Schoeck

    Othmar Schoeck was a Switzerland composer and conductor.Schoeck was born in Brunnen, studied briefly at the Leipzig Conservatory with Max Reger in 1907/08, but overall spent his whole career in Z?rich....
    • violin sonata op. 16
    • violin sonata op. 46
    • violin sonata WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing )


  • Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    • violin sonatinas in D major, A minor, G minor
    • violin sonata in A major


  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    • violin sonata #1
      Violin Sonata No. 1 (Schumann)

      The violin sonata no. 1 in A minor, opus number 105 of Robert Schumann was written the week of September 12– 16 September, 1851. Schumann was reported to have expressed displeasure with the work though as pointed out in the notes to the Hänssler recording he was willing to have it published by Breitkopf und H?rtel the year i...
       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
    Roger Sessions

    Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
    • sonata for solo violin


  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
    • violin sonata
      Sonata for violin and piano

      Shostakovich composed Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 134 in the autumn of 1968 in Moscow, completing it October 23. It is set in three movements and lasts approximately 31 minutes....
      , op. 134 (1968)


  • Robert Simpson
    Robert Simpson (composer)

    File:72 Brian session.jpgRobert Simpson was an England composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius....
    • sonata for violin and piano in two movements (1984)


  • Ethel Smyth
    Ethel Smyth

    Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.Early career ...
    • 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 and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)


  • Louis Spohr
    Louis Spohr

    Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conducting. Born Ludwig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name outside Germany....
    • sonatas for violin and harp


  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    Charles Villiers Stanford

    Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life....
    • violin sonata no. 1 in D, 1877? (op. 11) (notes for another recording give 1880)
    • violin sonata no. 2 in A, op. 70, 1898
    • violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919


  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar , was a Sweden composer, Conducting and pianist....
    • violin sonata op. 19 in A minor (1899/1900)


  • Richard Strauss
    Richard Strauss

    Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic music and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent Conducting....
    • Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat major (1887) ()


  • Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Szymanowski

    Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Poland composer and pianist....
    • Violin sonata op. 9 in D minor (1904)


  • Germaine Tailleferre
    Germaine Tailleferre

    Germaine Tailleferre was a France composer and the only female member of the famous Group Les Six....
    • two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto )


  • Sergei Taneyev
    Sergei Taneyev

    Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , a pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of musical composition, music theorist and author....
    • Violin sonata in A minor


  • Giuseppe Tartini
    Giuseppe Tartini

    Giuseppe Tartini was an Italy composer and violinist....
    • Devil's Trill sonata
      Devil's Trill Sonata

      The Violin Sonata in G minor, more famously known as the Devil's Trill Sonata is a famous work for solo violin by Giuseppe Tartini , famous for being extremely technically demanding, even today....
       and many others


  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig....
    • Canonic Sonatas for Two Violins


  • Eduard Tubin
    Eduard Tubin

    Eduard Tubin was an Estonia composer and conductor....
    • Violin sonata no. 1 (1936)
    • Violin sonata no. 2 in Phrygian key (1949)
    • Solo violin sonata (1962) ()


  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
    • violin sonata in A minor


  • Louis Vierne
    Louis Vierne

    Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a renowned French organ ist and composer. He was born October 8, 1870 in Poitiers and died June 2, 1937 in Paris....
    • violin sonata in G minor op. 23 (1905-6? Premiered 1908.)()


  • Giovanni Battista Viotti
    Giovanni Battista Viotti

    Giovanni Battista Viotti was an Italy violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness....
    • Six published sonatas opus 4 for violin and bass (about 1788), six without opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)


  • Antonio Vivaldi
    Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
    • Twelve sonatas (Opus 2), six sonatas (Opus 5) and other various, such as the recently (1970s) discovered 'Manchester Sonatas'. Also the Opus 1 twelve sonatas, though these are for two violins and technically are trio sonatas.


  • Georg Joseph Vogler
    Georg Joseph Vogler

    Georg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abb? Vogler , was a German people composer, organist, teacher and music theory.Vogler was born at Pleichach in W?rzburg....
    • Six Sonatas Opus 3


  • William Walton
    William Walton

    Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
    • violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)


  • Carl Maria von Weber
    Carl Maria von Weber

    Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
    • 6 violin sonatas, op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)


  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    Mieczyslaw Weinberg was an important USSR composer of Poland-Jewish origin.He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust....
    • a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas


  • Charles-Marie Widor
    Charles-Marie Widor

    Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organists, composer and teacher....
    • two violin sonatas - #1 opus 50 ("sonata for piano and violin", 1881), #2 opus 79 (1907 rev. 1937) ()


  • Stefan Wolpe
    Stefan Wolpe

    Stefan Wolpe was a Germany-born composer.Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the Berlin Hochschule f?r Musik 1920-1921....
    • violin sonata (1949)


  • Eugčne Ysa˙e
    Eugčne Ysa˙e

    File:Eug?neYsa?e.jpgEug?ne Ysa?e was a Belgium violinist, composer and conducting. His brother was pianist and composer Th?o Ysa?e . He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein mentioned, "tzar"....
    • six sonatas for solo violin


See also

  • Violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  • Bassoon sonata
    Bassoon sonata

    A bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century....
  • Cello sonata
    Cello sonata

    A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
  • Clarinet sonata
    Clarinet Sonata

    A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire....
  • Flute sonata
    Flute sonata

    A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo....
  • Piano sonata
    Piano sonata

    A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movement , although occasionally there are just one or two movements....
  • Viola sonata
    Viola sonata

    The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:...
  • String Instrument Repertoire
    String instrument repertoire

    This is a list of pages with repertoire for stringed instruments....