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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: *in the Baroque era, there were many

Work list#

  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 17 (1947)
  • Granville Bantock
  • Sonata in F for Viola and Piano “Colleen” (1919)
  • Jan Zdeněk Bartoš
  • Sonatina for Viola and Piano, Op. 46
  • Marion Bauer
  • Sonata for Viola, Op. 22 (1932)
  • Arnold Bax
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano in G (1921–1922)
  • Fantasy Sonata for Viola and Harp (1927)
  • Jack Beeson
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1953)
  • Arthur Benjamin
  • Sonata in E minor (1942)
  • Lennox Berkeley
  • Sonata in D minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 22 (1945)
  • Valentin Bibik
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 1, Op. 31 (1977)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 2, Op. 136 (1999)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1, Op. 72 (1988)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 2, Op. 137 (2000)
  • Easley Blackwood Jr.
  • Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 (1953)
  • Sonata No. 2, Op. 43 (2001)
  • Luigi Boccherini
  • Sonata Viola (or Cello) and Continuo in C minor, G.18
  • York Bowen
  • Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 18 (1911?)
  • Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 22 (1911)
  • Arthur Butterworth
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1986, though sketched 1949)
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Sonata for Viola and Harp, Op. 144
  • Paul Chihara
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1996)
  • Rebecca Clarke
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1919)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
  • Sonatas for Viola and Piano
  • Felix Draeseke
  • Sonata in C minor (1892)
  • Sonata in F (1901–2)
  • Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (2000)
  • Jacobo Ficher
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 80 (1953)
  • Ross Lee Finney
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Lillian Fuchs
  • Sonata pastorale, for Solo Viola
  • Robert Fuchs
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano in D minor, Op. 86
  • Harald Genzmer
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1957)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Sonatine for Viola and Piano
  • Roberto Gerhard
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1946)
  • Mikhail Glinka
  • Sonata in D minor for Viola and Piano (incomplete) (1835)
  • Hilding Hallnäs
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 19 (1943)
  • Hans Werner Henze
  • Sonata for Viola (1979)
  • Kurt Hessenberg
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 94
  • Jennifer Higdon
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1990)
  • Paul Hindemith
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 11 No. 5 (1919)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1 (1922)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 31 No. 4 (1923)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1937)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 No. 4 (1919)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 25 No. 4 (1922)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1939)
  • Vagn Holmboe
  • Sonata for Solo Viola
  • Arthur Honegger
  • Sonata for Viola (1920)
  • Alan Hovhaness
  • Campuan Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 371 (1982)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 423
  • Bertold Hummel
  • Sonatina No.1, Op. 35b (1969)
  • Sonatina No.2, Op. 52b (1973)
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Sonata in E-flat for Viola and Piano, Op. 5, No. 3
  • Miriam Hyde
  • Sonata in B minor for Viola and Piano (1937)
  • Gordon Jacob
  • Sonata No. 1 (1949)
  • Sonata No. 2 (1978)
  • David Johnstone
  • Sonatango for Solo Viola (2007)
  • Paul Juon
  • Viola Sonata in D, Op. 15 (1901)
  • Viola Sonata in F minor, Op. 82 (1923)
  • Aram Khachaturian
  • Sonata for Solo Viola
  • Friedrich Kiel
  • Sonata, Op. 67 in G minor
  • Luigi von Kunits
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1917)
  • Ernst Krenek
  • Sonata for Solo Viola
  • Libby Larsen
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (2001)
  • Victor Legley
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 13 (1943)
  • Lowell Liebermann
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op.13 (1984)
  • György Ligeti
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–94)
  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1955)
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano in C minor (1824)
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano, Op. 240 (1941)
  • Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano, Op. 244 (1944)
  • José Pablo Moncayo
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1934)
  • Paul Müller-Zürich
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1979)
  • Jacques Murgier
  • Sonata for Solo Viola
  • Ernst Naumann
  • Sonata in G minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 1 (1854)
  • Ludvig Norman
  • Sonata in G Minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 32 (1869)
  • George Onslow
  • Three sonatas for Viola (or cello), Op. 16
  • George Perle
  • Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 12
  • Max Reger
  • Sonatas in A major and F minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 49 Nos. 1 and 2 (1900)
  • Sonata in B major for Viola and Piano, Op. 107 (1908-9)
  • George Rochberg
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1979)
  • Alessandro Rolla
  • Sonatas for Viola with Continuo
  • Johannes Röntgen
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Julius Röntgen
  • Sonata in C minor for Viola and Piano (1924)
  • Sonata in A major for Viola and Piano (1925)
  • Sonata in A minor for Viola and Piano (1925)
  • Nino Rota
  • Viola Sonata in G (1934–35, revised 1970)
  • Viola Sonata in C major (1945)
  • Anton Rubinstein
  • Sonata in F minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 49 (1855)
  • Philipp Scharwenka
  • Sonate fantasia in G minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 106 (1899)
  • Peter Sculthorpe
  • Sonata for Viola and Percussion
  • José Serebrier
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1955)
  • Alexander Shchetynsky
  • Sonata for Solo Viola (1987)
  • Vissarion Shebalin
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 (1975)
  • David Stanley Smith
  • Viola Sonata, Op. 72 (1934)
  • Carl Stamitz
  • Sonata for Viola
  • Constantinos Stylianou
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1 in F minor (2019)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 2 in E flat major (2020)
  • Eduard Tubin
  • Viola Sonata (1965)
  • Four Sonatas for Viola and Piano, Op. 5 (in C major, D, F and C)
  • Octavio Vazquez
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1 (1992)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 2 (2002)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps
  • Sonata in B major for Viola and Piano, Op. 36 (1862)
  • Sonate inachevée (Allegro et scherzo) for Viola and Piano, Op. 60 (Op. 14 posthumous) (1884)
  • Andrei Volkonsky
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 8 (1955–56)
  • Johann Baptist Wanhal
  • Viola Sonata in E
  • Graham Waterhouse
  • Sonata ebraica (2013)
  • Mieczysław Weinberg
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 1, Op. 107 (1971)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 2, Op. 123 (1978)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 3, Op. 135 (1982)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola No. 4, Op. 136 (1983)
  • George Balch Wilson
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1952)
  • Richard Edward Wilson
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1989)

See also#

  • Viola repertoire
  • Viola concerto
  • The history of Draeseke’s Viola Alta Sonatas
  • A Mendelssohn Chamber Worklist with Dates
  • Schott’s page for Nino Rota
  • A Viola Sonata Repertoire Page
  • Viola fan club with list of recordings and works