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 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord , now most often played on the cello )[citation needed
in the Classical era and early Romantic , there were few works written with viola specifically in mind as solo instrument, and many of these, like those of the Stamitz family, may have been written for the viola d'amore , like most of their viola works—though it is now customary to play them on the viola; it was more typical to publish a work or set, like George Onslow 's opus 16 cello sonatas, or Johannes Brahms 's Clarinet Sonatas in the late 19th century, that specified the viola as an alternate. Two early exceptions were the viola sonata of Felix Mendelssohn (1824, posthumously published in 1966) and the opus 1 sonata of the composer Ernst Naumann (1832–1910), published in 1854.
The viola returned to a solo role in the 20th century. Max Reger wrote three sonatas for either clarinet or viola at the beginning of the century. Paul Hindemith , himself a viola virtuoso, composed works several sonatas for viola solo, and others for viola and piano such as the Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 No. 4 in 1919. Rebecca Clarke composed the Sonata for viola and piano the same year. Bax 's Viola Sonata , written (like Walton's concerto) for the great English viola player Lionel Tertis in 1923, is one of his most-played and oft-recorded chamber works. Mieczysław Weinberg wrote four viola sonatas between 1971 and 1983. The Sonata for Viola and Piano , Op. 147, is the last composition by Dmitri Shostakovich , completed in July 1975 and dedicated to Fyodor Druzhinin .[ 1] György Ligeti wrote his Sonata for Solo Viola between 1991 and 1994.
In the 21st century, Graham Waterhouse wrote a viola sonata entitled Sonata ebraica [ 2]
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
Lennox Berkeley
Sonata in D minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 22 (1945)[ 3] 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) [ 4]
Sonata No. 2, Op. 43 (2001) [ 4] Arthur Bliss
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1933)[ 5] Luigi Boccherini
Sonata Viola (or Cello) and Continuo in C minor, G.18 York Bowen
Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 18 (1911?)[ 6]
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 22 (1911)[ 6] Johannes Brahms
Sonata in F minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1 (1894)
Sonata in E♭ [ a] James Francis Brown
Sonata for Viola (1995)[ 7] 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
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Sonatas for Viola and Piano Felix Draeseke
Sonata in C minor (1892)
Sonata in F (1901–2)[ b] 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 ViolaRobert 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)[ c] Mikhail Glinka
Sonata in D minor for Viola and Piano (incomplete) (1835) Hilding Hallnäs
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 19 (1943)[ 8] Hans Werner Henze
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
Arthur Honegger
Alan Hovhaness
Campuan Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 371 (1982)[ 9]
Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 423 Bertold Hummel
Sonatina No.1, Op. 35b (1969)[ 10]
Sonatina No.2, Op. 52b (1973)[ 11] 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)[ d] Aram Khachaturian
Friedrich Kiel
Sonata, Op. 67 in G minor Luigi von Kunits
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1917) Ernst Krenek
Libby Larsen
Sonata for Viola and Piano (2001) Victor Legley
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 13 (1943)[ 12] Lowell Liebermann
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op.13 (1984) György Ligeti
Bohuslav Martinů
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1955) Felix Mendelssohn
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
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
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♭
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)[ 13] [ 14] Franz Schubert
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
David Stanley Smith
Viola Sonata, Op. 72 (1934)[ 15] Carl Stamitz
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
Andrei Volkonsky
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 8 (1955–56) Johann Baptist Wanhal
Graham Waterhouse
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)[ 16] George Balch Wilson
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1952) Richard Edward Wilson
Sonata for Viola and Piano (1989)
See also
Notes
^ Composer's adaptation of the two Clarinet Sonatas
^ Both composed for Hermann Ritter's viola alta
^ Later reworked as his Cello Sonata.
^ Transcription of Clarinet Sonata
^ Alternate versions of Clarinet Sonatas.
^ Transcription of solo part from arpeggione.
^ Originally for Viola d'amore.
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