Viola sonata
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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 works written for the viola da gamba, including sonatas (the most famous being Johann Sebastian Bach's three, now most often played on the cello)
- in the Classical era and early Romantic, there were few works written with viola specifically in mind as solo instrument; it was more typical to publish a work or set, like Georges Onslow's opus 16 cello sonatas, or Johannes Brahms's opus 120 clarinet sonatas in the late 19th century, that specified the viola as an alternate.
- *The Brahms may be the first repertory sonatas for the instrument, alternates with an independent life and a performance history.
Work list
- Malcolm Arnold
- *Viola sonata op. 17 for viola and piano (1947)
- Marion Bauer
- *Viola sonata op. 22 (1932)
- Arnold Bax
- *Sonata for viola and piano in C minor (1922)
- *Fantasy sonata for viola and harp (1927)
- Arthur Benjamin
- *Sonata in E minor, 1942
- Lennox Berkeley
- *Sonata in D minor, op. 22 (see [Description from publisher] – written in 1946)
- Arthur Bliss
- *Sonata for viola and piano (1933) ([link])
- York Bowen
- *Sonata no. 1 op. 18 in C minor (by 1911?)
- *Sonata no. 2 op. 22 in F (1911) ([link], [link])
- Johannes Brahms
- *Sonata in F minor
- *Sonata in E-flat, alternate versions of the clarinet sonatas opp. 120 nos. 1 and 2, the first commonly played sonatas on the modern viola
- Arthur Butterworth
- *sonata for viola and piano (1986, though sketched 1949)
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
- *sonata for viola and harp (opus 144 — the cello and harp sonata is if not a later work, published later)
- Paul Chihara
- *sonata for viola and piano (1996)
- Rebecca Clarke
- *Sonata for viola and piano (1919)
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
- *sonatas for viola and piano
- Felix Draeseke
- *Sonata in C minor (1892)
- *Sonata in F (1901–2) both originally for the viola alta
- Ross Lee Finney
- *Sonata for viola and piano
- Robert Fuchs
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 86 in D minor
- Roberto Gerhard
- *Sonata for viola and piano (1946) — later reworked as his cello sonata
- Mikhail Glinka
- *Sonata for viola and piano in D minor (incomplete) (1835)
- Hilding Hallnäs
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 19 (1943) ([link])
- Hans Werner Henze
- *Viola sonata (1979)
- Kurt Hessenberg
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 94
- Paul Hindemith
- *viola sonatas with and without piano
- Vagn Holmboe
- *Sonata for solo viola
- Arthur Honegger
- *Viola sonata (1920)
- Alan Hovhaness
- *Campuan Sonata for viola and piano (1982) ([link])
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- *Sonata in E-flat for viola and piano, op. 5 no. 3
- Gordon Jacob
- *Sonata no. 1 (1949)
- *Sonata no. 2 (1978)
- Paul Juon
- *Sonata op. 15 in D (1901)
- *Sonata op. 82 in F minor (version of clarinet sonata) (1923)
- Aram Khachaturian
- *Sonata for viola solo
- Friedrich Kiel
- *Sonata op. 67 in G minor
- Ernst Krenek
- *Sonata for viola solo
- Victor Legley
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 13 (1943) ([link])
- Bohuslav Martinů
- *at least one, perhaps two sonatas for viola and piano (the first written in 1955)
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- *Sonata for viola and piano in C minor (1824?)
- Darius Milhaud
- *two sonatas for viola and piano (opp. 240, 244 from 1941 and 1944)
- Georges Onslow
- *three sonatas op. 16 (played on cello or viola)
- Max Reger
- *three sonatas opp. 49 1 and 2 and op 107 (alternates of clarinet sonatas)
- George Rochberg
- *Sonata for viola and piano in F minor (1979)
- Alessandro Rolla
- *sonatas for viola with continuo
- Nino Rota
- *Viola sonata in C (1934-5, revised 1970)
- Anton Rubinstein
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 49 in F minor (1855)
- Philipp Scharwenka
- *Sonata for viola and piano "Sonate fantasia" in G minor op. 106 (1899) ([link], [link])
- Peter Sculthorpe
- *Sonata for viola and percussion
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- *Sonata for viola and piano op. 147 in C minor (1975)
- David Stanley Smith
- *Viola sonata, opus 72 (1934) ([link])
- Eduard Tubin
- *Viola sonata (1965)
- Johann Baptist Vanhal
- *Viola sonata in E-flat
- *Four sonatas for viola and piano, opus 5 (in C major, D, F and C)
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- *Sonata for viola and piano in B-flat (1863 or before)
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg
- *Sonata for solo viola No. 1 opus 107 (1971)
- *Sonata for solo viola No. 2 opus 123 (1978)
- *Sonata for solo viola No. 3 opus 135 (1982)
- *Sonata for solo viola No. 4 opus 136 (1983) ([link])
See also
External links
- [Review of Concert with Arnold Viola Sonata]
- [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]
- [And another repertoire page with dates]
- [Primrose Festival] (information with dates also)
- [Viola fan club with list of recordings and works]
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