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 George 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.

[edit] 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) ([1])
• York Bowen
  • Sonata no. 1 op. 18 in C minor (by 1911?)
  • Sonata no. 2 op. 22 in F (1911) ([2], [3])
• 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) ([4])
• 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) ([5])
• 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)
• 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) ([6])
• 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)
• George 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) ([7], [8])
• 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) ([9])
• 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) ([10])
• Richard Edward Wilson
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1989)

[edit] See also

• Bassoon sonata
• Cello sonata
• Clarinet sonata
• Piano sonata
• Violin sonata

[edit] 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