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.

Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart, Beethoven, and César Franck, are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.

List of Violin sonatas

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) op. 21 in F# 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) ([1])

• Grazyna 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) ([2])
  • Sonata No. 1 in E, first version 1920/1, revised 1945 ([3], [4])
  • Sonata No. 2 in D, 1915/1921 ([5])
  • Sonata No. 3 in G minor, 1927 ([6])
  • Sonata in F (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 ([7])

• 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 ([8])
  • violin sonata op. 29 in E minor, 1890
  • violin sonata op. 36a in E minor, 1898

• Aaron Copland
  • violin sonata (1943) ([9])

• Arcangelo Corelli
  • violin sonatas with continuo (opus 5, others?)

• John Corigliano
  • violin sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ([10])

• Claude Debussy
  • violin sonata in G minor, 1917

• Frederick Delius
  • violin sonata published posth., 1892 ([11])
  • violin sonata no. 1, 1914
  • violin sonata no. 2, 1923
  • violin sonata no. 3, 1930 ([12], [13])

• Edison Denisov
  • sonata for violin solo, 1978
  • violin sonata, 1963 ([14])

• Ernö Dohnányi
  • violin sonata op. 21 in C# minor 1913? ([15])

• Antonín Dvořák
  • violin sonata op. 57 in F, 1880
  • violin sonatina op. 100 in G, 1893 ([16])

• 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

• Gabriel Fauré
  • violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A
  • violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor

• Irving Fine
  • 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

• 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

• 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 Martinu
  • 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

• Vitezslav Novák
  • violin sonata in D minor

• 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) ([17])

• 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# 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

• 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)

• Xaver Scharwenka
  • violin sonata op. 2 in D minor

• Alfred Schnittke
  • violin sonatas #s 1,2,3

• 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

• Moisei Vainberg
  • a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas

• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • violin sonata in A minor

• Carl Maria von Weber
  • 6 violin sonatas, his op. 10 (also played as flute sonatas.)

• William Walton
  • violin sonata (1949/rev 1950)

• Stefan Wolpe
  • violin sonata

• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • six sonatas for solo violin

See also: Violin sonata, Aaron Copland, Albert Roussel, Albéric Magnard, Alfred Schnittke, Anton Rubinstein, Antonin Dvorak, Aram Khachaturian, Arcangelo Corelli, Arnold Bax