A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.
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A Tomaso Albinoni Sonate da chiesa ("Op. 4") (for violin and basso continuo) (Amsterdam, c.1708) Sonate, violin and basso continuo, … e uno suario o capriccio … del Sig. Tibaldi (Amsterdam, c1717) 6 sonates da camera, for violin and harpsichord, Op. Posth. (Paris, c.1740) Charles-Valentin Alkan Grand Duo Concertant (sonata) in F-sharp minor, Op. 21 (c. 1840) Kurt Atterberg Sonata (for violin, cello, viola or horn, with piano) in B minor, Op. 27 (1925)
B Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard Sonatas for violin and harpsichord BWV 1020, 1022 Johann Christian Bach Nine (Op. 10 and 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin Johann Sebastian Bach Solo sonatas BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005, included in Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (1720) Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 Sonatas for violin and continuo BWV 1021, 1023, and the doubtful 1024 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 solo violin, 1944 Arnold Bax 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 Violin Sonata in A minor (1896) Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata in A major (fragmentary) (1790-92) Violin Sonata No. 1 (1798) Violin Sonata No. 2 (1798) Violin Sonata No. 3 (1798) Violin Sonata No. 4 (1800) Violin Sonata No. 5 (1800-01) Violin Sonata No. 6 (1801-02) Violin Sonata No. 7 (1801-02) Violin Sonata No. 8 (1801-02) Violin Sonata No. 9 (1802-03) Violin Sonata No. 10 (1812) Richard Rodney Bennett Sonata for violin and piano (1978) Violin Sonata No.1 Op.50 (1999) Violin Sonata No.2 Op.56 (2000) Heinrich Ignaz Biber Mystery Sonatas for violin and figured bass Sonatae violino solo (8 sonatas for violin and continuo) (1681) Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 1 in A major Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 2 in D minor Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 3 in F major Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 4 in D major Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 5 in E minor Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 6 in C minor Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 7 in G minor Sonata, for violin & continuo No. 8 in G major Sonata violino solo representativa (Representatio Avium), for violin & continuo in A major, 1669? Sonata, for solo violin in A major Ernest Bloch Violin Sonata No. 1, 1920 Violin Sonata No. 2 Poeme Mystique, 1924 Theodor Blumer Violin Sonata Nimrod Borenstein Sonata for violin and piano Op. 1 (1994) Sonata concertante Op. 61 for violin and piano (2013) 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 No. 1 in G major, Rain Sonata, Op. 78, 1878–79 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Thun, Op. 100, 1886 Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108, 1886–88 James Francis Brown Sonata for Violin and Piano (2001. Rev 2003)Tirimo, F. (no date) Works – Violin Sonata. Available at: http://www.jamesfrancisbrown.com/works/work.asp?workid=293&order=catdate (Accessed: 13 October 2015) Frank Bridge Violin Sonata (1932) Ferruccio Busoni Violin sonata (early) in C major, 1876 () Violin sonata Op. 29 in E minor, 1890 Violin sonata Op. 36a in E minor, 1898
C Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 28 Aaron Copland Violin Sonata (1943) () Arcangelo Corelli Violin sonatas with continuo (Op. 5, Nos. 1–12) John Corigliano Violin Sonata (1963, some sources have 1964) ()
D Claude Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor, 1917 Frederick Delius Violin Sonata published posth., 1892 () Violin Sonata No. 1, 1914 Violin Sonata No. 2, 1923 Violin Sonata No. 3, 1930 (, ) Edison Denisov Sonata for violin solo, 1978 Violin Sonata, 1963 () Ernő Dohnányi Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 21, 1913? () Avner Dorman Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, 2004 Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano, 2008 Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano, 2011 Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano, 2015 Lucien Durosoir Violin Sonata in A major, 1921 () Antonín Dvořák Violin Sonata in F major, Op. 57, 1880 Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100, 1893 ()
E Edward Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82 George Enescu Violin Sonata fragment Torso Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2 Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6 Violin Sonata No. 3 dans le caractère populaire roumain (in Romanian Folk Style) in A minor, Op. 25 Sven Einar Englund Violin Sonata (1979) () Iván Erőd 1st Sonata op. 14 (1970) 2nd Sonata op. 74 (2000)
F Gabriel Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108 Mohammed Fairouz Sonata for Solo Violin (2011) Zdeněk Fibich Violin Sonata in D major Violin Sonatina in D minor, Op. 27 Grzegorz Fitelberg at least two violin sonatas (A minor, Op. 2, F major, Op. 12: by 1905) Date for 2nd sonata comes from front page of PDF. Irving Fine Violin Sonata Nicolas Flagello Violin Sonata Josef Bohuslav Foerster Sonata No. 1, Op. 10 Sonata No. 2, sonata quasi fantasia, Op. 177 César Franck Violin Sonata in A major, M. 8 Peter Racine Fricker Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 (1950) Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 94 (1987)
Robert Fuchs Six violin sonatas Wilhelm Furtwängler Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1935) Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major (1939)
G Niels Wilhelm Gade Three sonatas: Op. 6 in A, Op. 21 in D minor, Op. 59 in B-flat major Hans Gál Violin Sonata, Op. 17 (also at least one other) () Violin Sonata in D (1933) Three Sonatinas, Op. 71 (1956) Friedrich Gernsheim Four violin sonatas Joseph Gibbs Eight solos (sonatas) for the violin and a thorough bass, 1748 Philip Glass Sonata for Violin and Piano Benjamin Godard Four violin sonatas (No. 1, Op. 1; No. 2, Op. 2; No. 3 in D minor, Op. 9; No. 4 in A-flat major, Op. 12) Karl Goldmark Violin Sonata in D major/B minor, Op. 25 Edvard Grieg Violin Sonatas and Jorge Grundman What Inspires Poetry. Violin and Piano Sonata (2008) Warhol in Springtime. Violin and Piano Sonata (2011) White Sonata: The Child Who Never Wanted to Grow Up. Violin and Piano Sonata (2012) Camargo Guarnieri Violin Sonata No. 1 (1930) Violin Sonata No. 2 (1933) Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950) Violin Sonata No. 4 (1956) Violin Sonata No. 5 (1959) Violin Sonata No. 6 (1965) Violin Sonata No. 7
H Reynaldo Hahn Sonata in C major (1926) George Frideric Handel Sonata for violin and basso continuo in D minor (HWV 359a) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major (HWV 361) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in G minor (HWV 364a) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in G minor (HWV 368) (probably spurious) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in F major (HWV 370) (probably spurious) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in D major (HWV 371) Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major (HWV 372) (probably spurious) Sobata for violin and basso continuo in E major (HWV 373) (probably spurious) John Harbison Sonata No.1 (2011) Sonata No. 2 (2013) Karl Amadeus Hartmann Sonatas for violin solo Joseph Haydn Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in B-flat major Hob:XVa:1 Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in D major Hob:XVa:2 Sonata for keyboard and obbligato violin in C major Hob:XVa:3 Swan Hennessy Sonate en Fa (Style Irlandais), Op. 14 (1905) Deuxième Sonatine, Op. 80 (1929) Hans Werner Henze Sonata for violin and piano (1946) Sonata for violin solo (1977; revised 1992) Sonatina for violin and piano (1979) [from the opera Pollicino] Paul Hindemith Sonatas for violin solo, and four with piano C. René Hirschfeld Sonata concertante for violin and piano (2006) Vagn Holmboe Violin Sonata No. 1, M. 82, 1935 Violin Sonata No. 2, M. 112, 1939 Violin Sonata No. 3, M. 227, 1965 Arthur Honegger Sonatas Nos. 0–2 Herbert Howells Three violin sonatas Bertold Hummel Violin Sonata, Op. 6 (1952) Violin Sonatina, Op. 35a (1969) Violin Sonatina, Op. 107a (2001)
I Vincent d'Indy Violin Sonata in C major, Op. 59 John Ireland Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor (1909) Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor (1917) Charles Ives Four violin sonatas
J Leoš Janáček Violin Sonata André Jolivet Violin Sonata (1932) Paul Juon Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, op. 7 Violin Sonata No. 2 in F major, op. 69 Violin Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 86
K Karen Khachaturian Sonata for violin and piano Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 6 (1912) Ernst Krenek Violin Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 3 (1919) Six sonatinas for violin and piano (without Op. number 61. 1921) Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 99 (1945) Two sonatas for solo violin (Op. 33, 1925 and Op. 115, 1947)http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article_works/grove/music/22402?q=prokofiev&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1 Toivo Kuula Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 1 (1907)
L Edouard Lalo Violin Sonata in D major, Op.12 Jean-Marie Leclair Violin sonatas (at least Op.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 are sets of sonatas, some alternately for flute) Benjamin Lees Three Violin Sonatas Paul Le Flem Violin Sonata in G minor (1905) Kenneth Leighton Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 4 (1949) Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 (1953) Guillaume Lekeu Violin Sonata in G major (1892/93) Lowell Liebermann Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.46 (1994) Douglas Lilburn Violin Sonata No. 1 in E flat (1943) Violin Sonata No. 2 in C (1943) Violin Sonata No. 3 (1950) Franz Liszt Violin Sonata (Duo) in C-sharp minor, S 127 (1835) Pietro Locatelli Sonatas for violin with continuo from Opp. 6 and 8
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Leevi Madetoja Sonatina for violin and piano, Op. 18 (1913) Albéric Magnard Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13 Edgar Manas Sonata for Violin and Piano (1923) Bohuslav Martinů Violin Sonatas 1, 2, 3 Giuseppe Martucci Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 William Mathias Three violin sonatas John Blackwood McEwen At least six violin sonatas (No. 6 published 1930 by Oxford University Press) Nikolai Medtner Violin Sonata No. 1 in B minor, Op. 21 (1909-10) Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 (1922-25) Violin Sonata No. 3 Epica in E minor, Op. 57 (1938) Felix Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F major, 1820 Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4, 1823 Violin Sonata in F major, 1838 Peter Mennin Sonata Concertante Peter Mieg Sonata for violin and piano (1936) 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 Violin Sonatas, KV 6–9 (for Keyboard and Violin) (1762-64) No. 1 in C major (1762-64) No. 2 in D major (1763-64) No. 3 in B-flat major (1763-64) No. 4 in G major (1764) Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (for Keyboard with Violin or Flute, and Cello) (1764) No. 5 in B-flat major (1764) No. 6 in G major (1764) No. 7 in A major (1764) No. 8 in F major (1764) No. 9 in C major (1764) No. 10 in B-flat major (1764) Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31 (for Keyboard and Violin) (1766) No. 11 in E-flat major (1766) No. 12 in G major (1766) No. 13 in C major (1766) No. 14 in D major (1766) No. 15 in F major (1766) No. 16 in B-flat major (1766) Violin Sonata No. 17 in C major, K. 296 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 18 in G major, K. 301 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 19 in E-flat major, K. 302 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 20 in C major, K. 303 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 22 in A major, K. 305 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 23 in D major, K. 306 (1778) Violin Sonata No. 24 in F major, K. 376 (1781) Violin Sonata No. 25 in F major, K. 377 (1781) Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378 (1779) Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major, K. 379 (1781) Violin Sonata No. 28 in E-flat major, K. 380 (1781)