A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.

Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart and early Beethoven, 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-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 (Skorski)
  • Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Skorski)

• 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 major, 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 major, 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 major (alternate version of his Nonet) 1940 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/bax/ASV.htm)

• Amy Beach
  • Violin sonata in A minor (1896) ^[1]

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 10 sonatas — see List of works by Beethoven — in particular
    • Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 4 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven)
    • Violin Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven)

• 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 #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
  • violin sonata (1932)

• Ferruccio Busoni
  • violin sonata (early) in C major, 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 Dvo?ák
  • violin sonata op. 57 in F major, 1880
  • violin sonatina op. 100 in G major, 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 major
  • violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor
  • violin sonata #3 on Popular Romanian themes op. 25 in A minor

• Sven Einar Englund
  • violin sonata (1979) (http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/0/d55c585fdb6dda91c22566b200448b1f?OpenDocument)

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

• Zden?k Fibich
  • violin sonata in D major
  • violin sonatina, op. 27 in D minor

• Grzegorz Fitelberg
  • at least two violin sonatas (A minor, op. 2, F major, op. 12: by 1905)^[2]

• Irving Fine
  • violin sonata

• Nicolas Flagello
  • violin sonata

• Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • sonata no. 1, op. 10^[3]
  • sonata no. 2, sonata quasi fantasia op. 177^[3]

• Robert Fuchs
  • six violin sonatas

• Niels Wilhelm Gade
  • three sonatas — op. 6 in A, op. 21 in D minor, op. 59 in B-flat major

• Friedrich Gernsheim
  • four violin sonatas

• Benjamin Godard
  • Four violin sonatas (#1 op. 1, #2 op. 2, #3 op. 9 in D minor, #4 op. 12 in A-flat major)^[5][6][7]

• Karl Goldmark
  • violin sonata op. 25 in D major/B minor

• Edvard Grieg
  • Three sonatas:
    • 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
  • violin sonata op. 17 (also at least one other) (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogMay03.html)

• Reynaldo Hahn
  • sonata in C major (1926) ^[8]

• George Friedrich 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 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

• Bertold Hummel
  • violin sonata op. 6 (1952) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_6.html
  • violin sonatina op. 35a (1969) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_35A.html
  • violin sonatina op. 107a (2001) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_107A.html

• Vincent d'Indy
  • violin sonata op. 59 in C major

• John Ireland
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 (D minor) (1909)
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 (A minor) (1917)

• Charles Ives
  • four violin sonatas

• Leo? Janá?ek
  • violin sonata

• André Jolivet
  • violin sonata (1932)

• Aram Khachaturian
  • sonata for violin and piano

• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • violin sonata op. 6 in G major (1912) (http://www.korngold-society.org/review.html)

• Ernst Krenek
  • 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) ^[9]

• Jean-Marie Leclair
  • violin sonatas (at least opus 1, 2, 5, 9 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) ^[10]

• Benjamin Lees
  • three violin sonatas

• Paul Le Flem
  • Violin sonata in G minor (1905)^[11][12]

• Pietro Locatelli
  • sonatas for violin with continuo from opus 6 and opus 8

• Albéric Magnard
  • violin sonata op. 13 in G major

• Bohuslav Martin?
  • violin sonatas 1, 2, 3

• Giuseppe Martucci
  • violin sonata op. 22 in G minor

• William Mathias
  • at least two violin sonatas

• John Blackwood McEwen
  • at least six violin sonatas (#6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press)

• Nikolai Medtner
  • 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
  • violin sonata in F major
  • violin sonata op. 4 in F minor
  • 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 (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
  • violin sonata op. 70 in F major (1946-7) (http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm)

• Oskar Nedbal
  • violin sonata op. 9 in B minor

• Carl Nielsen
  • early sonatas
  • violin sonata op. 9 in A major
  • violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C major

• Vít?zslav Novák
  • violin sonata in D minor (his 27th work, unpublished )

• Leo Ornstein
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 31 (1915)

• Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • violin sonata op. 13 in A minor

• Niccolň Paganini
  • Numerous sonatas for violin with piano or guitar

• Robert Paterson
  • Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano http://www.robpaterson.com/works-notes/sonata_for_violin_and_piano.html

• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • violin sonata no. 1 (1953)
  • violin sonata no. 2 (2000) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jun04/penderecki_violin.htm)

• Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • Violin sonata in A minor (so far recorded only in cello transcription http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogFeb02.html)

• Gabriel Pierné
  • sonata for violin (or flute) op. 36

• Walter Piston
  • violin sonata (1939) (http://www.classical-artists.com/ssjj/)
  • sonatina for violin and harpsichord (1945) (http://www.musicalobservations.com/recordings/cp2_114.html)

• Quincy Porter
  • two violin sonatas (and a #0 posthumously published)

• Francis Poulenc
  • violin sonata

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • sonata for two violins op. 56 in C major
  • violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor
  • violin sonata #2 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
  • 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
  • early violin sonata
  • violin sonata in G major

• Alan Rawsthorne
  • violin sonata (1958) ^[13]

• 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 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)
    • 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
  • one violin sonata, op. 116 in E minor

• Ottorino Respighi
  • violin sonata in b minor

• Josef Rheinberger
  • violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat major (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 major (1917), #3 in A major (1927) ^[14]

• Nikolai Roslavets
  • Violin Sonatas 1-6

• Albert Roussel
  • violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
  • violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A major

• 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 major
  • 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 major (1896)

• Philipp Scharwenka
  • violin sonata op. 110 in B minor (by 1900)^[15]

• 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 major, A minor, G minor
  • violin sonata in A major

• 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)

• 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 ^[16] and noted in published articles- Dale's in Oct. 1949 Music & Letters.)

• Louis Spohr
  • sonatas for violin and harp

• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • violin sonata no. 1 in D, 1877? (op. 11) (notes for another recording give 1880)
  • violin sonata no. 2 in A, op. 70, 1898 ^[17]
  • violin sonata no. 3, op. 165, 1919

• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • violin sonata op. 19 in A minor (1899/1900)

• Richard Strauss
  • Violin sonata op. 18 in E-flat major (1887) (Review of a compact disc containing the Strauss and Korngold)

• Karol Szymanowski
  • Violin sonata op. 9 in D minor (1904)

• Germaine Tailleferre
  • two violin sonatas (first from 1921; the second, from 1951 a transcription of her violin concerto ^[18])

• 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) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/Tubin.htm)

• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • violin sonata in A minor

• Louis Vierne
  • violin sonata in G minor op. 23 (1905-6? Premiered 1908.)(Catalog of Vierne's music)

• Giovanni Battista Viotti
  • Six published sonatas opus 4 for violin and bass (about 1788), six without opus number. (Recorded on Dynamic S2002-4)

• Georg Joseph Vogler
  • Six Sonatas Opus 3^[19]

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

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

• Mieczys?aw Weinberg
  • a violin sonatina, five sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas

• 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 (1949)

• Eugčne Ysa˙e
  • six sonatas for solo violin

See also

• Violin
• Bassoon sonata
• Cello sonata
• Clarinet sonata

• Flute sonata
• Piano sonata
• Viola sonata
• String Instrument Repertoire

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