List of sonatas

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Overview of the status of articles on individual sonatas , mainly piano sonatas .

In this article, the assignment of a European composer to a given century based on his sonatas is determined by the part in which the ( quantitatively ) more important part falls.

Piano sonatas

Sonatas in the 18th century

Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757):

The 555 sonatas for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti are the main work of the Italian composer. They are in one movement, often make virtuoso demands and consist of two parts, each of which is repeated.

Brook

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788):

The Berliner or Hamburger Bach , son of Johann Sebastian Bach and author of the attempt on the true way of playing the piano , wrote about 150 sonatas for harpsichord. The six Prussian sonatas from 1742 and the six Württemberg sonatas from 1744 are particularly important for the development of the Sensitive Style .

Clementi

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832):

Clementi's virtuoso sonatas, which penetrated into the early musical romanticism , were written between 1771 and 1823. In particular, the early, virtuoso pieces with novel figures such as chains of thirds and octaves left a great influence on the development of piano technique (among others, also noticeable in Beethoven ) at the turn of the century.

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791):

Mozart was an excellent pianist. In addition to his piano concertos - a highlight of the genre - he wrote numerous piano sonatas, variations and smaller piano pieces for the piano. Mozart composed his first four sonatas at the age of ten. But these have all been lost. He composed the first of the surviving sonatas in Munich in 1775 , and the last (KV576) in Vienna in 1789 .

Dussek

Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760–1812):

With Dussek it is difficult to number the piano sonatas exactly (all of them were written between 1787 and 1812), since many of the early compositions , which were previously thought of as violin sonatas, were later published without the violin part (usually only imitating the first part true to note) and only then became the real piano sonata ( Quite apart from other “mistakes”; in many similar lists the early sonatas in A flat major and G major are simply left out). Therefore, here is just a list of his works of the genre without numbering.

  • Piano Sonata in A flat major, Op. 5 No. 3 c43
  • Piano Sonata in G major No. 51
  • Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 9 No. 1 c57
  • Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 9 No. 2 c58
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 9 No. 3 c59
  • Piano Sonata in A major op.10 No. 1 c60
  • Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 10 No. 2 c61
  • Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 10 No. 3 c62
  • Piano Sonata in C major op.14 No. 1 c71
  • Piano Sonata in G major op.14 No. 2 c72
  • Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 14 No. 3 c73
  • Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 18 No. 2 (also as Op. 19 No. 2) c80
  • Piano Sonata in B flat major op.24 (also as op.23 and op.27) c96
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 25 No. 2 c127
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 31 No. 2 c133
  • La Chasse (The Hunt) : Sonata for the Pianoforte in F major, Op. 22 c146
  • Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 35 No. 1 c149
  • Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 35 No. 2 c150
  • Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 35 No. 3 c151
  • Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 39 No. 1 c166
  • Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 39 No. 2 c167
  • Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 39 No. 3 c168
  • Piano Sonata in A major op.43 c177
  • Piano Sonata in E flat major The Farewell , op.44 c178
  • Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 45 No. 1 c179
  • Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 45 No. 2 c180
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 45 No. 3 c181
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 47 No. 1 c184
  • Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 47 No. 2 c185
  • Piano Sonata in F sharp minor Elégie harmonique op.61 no. C211
  • Piano sonata in A flat major Le retour á Paris op.64 (also as op.70, op.71 and op.77) c221
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Op. 69 No. 3 c242
  • Piano Sonata in E flat major op.75 c247
  • Piano Sonata in F minor L'invocation op.77 c259

Sonatas in the 19th century

Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):

Ludwig van Beethoven's piano works are of epoch-making importance in piano literature. The composer from Bonn was an excellent pianist who composed from the piano. Without the three early sonatas from Bonn, which are not part of the canon, Beethoven wrote a total of 32 sonatas for piano. They are among the most important works in piano literature. According to Hans von Bülow's famous assessment, it is also known as the “New Testament” of piano literature. (The "Old Testament" of the piano literature, therefore, is The Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach ).

Three Elector Sonatas WoO 47 (1783), today excluded from the sonata list:

Mature sonatas (from 1795):

Schubert

Franz Schubert (1797–1828):

Schubert was, as the technical level of his pieces alone shows, an excellent pianist . With the exception of his “ Schubertiaden ”, in contrast to contemporaries like Johann Ladislaus Dussek and Beethoven , he avoided public appearances. He also did not compose a solo concert for the piano in his life . He completed only 12 of the 21 sonatas he had begun; the date of creation of these works can be set between 1815 and 1828.

Burgmüller

Norbert Burgmüller (1810–1836):

Burgmüller was only able to partially develop his artistic potential due to his early death. In principle, his oeuvre only represents the early work of a composer. Nevertheless, the works that have been preserved reveal a great talent with very individual traits. He was also a good pianist and performed professionally in public. His work for the piano includes the Piano Concerto in F sharp minor Op. 1 also the great piano sonata in F minor; he also wrote a few smaller pieces.

Chopin

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849):

Chopin's main work is written for piano. A major source of Chopin's style was brilliant virtuoso literature. The influence of Ignaz Moscheles , Friedrich Kalkbrenner , Carl Maria von Weber and above all Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Maria Szymanowska should not be underestimated. Trained on the works of these composers and pianists, Chopin developed his own unmistakable piano style, in which brilliance is an important factor alongside expression. Chopin's extensive oeuvre for piano includes only three sonatas. The first sonata is a youth work. Chopin dedicated it to his teacher Józef Elsner. The second in B flat minor is probably the best known of the three sonatas; her famous funeral march, the third movement, the focus of the work, was the first to be written (as early as 1837).

Schumann

Robert Schumann (1810-1856):

Schumann is one of the most important creators of romantic piano music . In addition to early piano lessons (with Friedrich Wieck, the father of his future wife) and music theory, he also pursued his own studies using Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier . A finger strain thwarted the virtuoso career ; For years, however, only works for piano were created. His great, technically and musically highly demanding sonatas were written between 1832 and 1852; the three sonatas for the youth date from 1853.

Three piano sonatas for the young
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in G major op.118a
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in D major op.118b
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major op.118c

Liszt

Franz Liszt (1811–1886):

Franz Liszt re-shaped the form of piano playing, which was common up to his time, and accordingly also the piano composition. What was decisive for this: The fortepiano mechanics experienced their most important further development in the 19th century; This not least because Liszt's sometimes brutal style of playing spurred piano makers to produce better and more "resistant" instruments. In addition, from the beginning Liszt broke with all the rules of piano playing technique, which at the time was practiced strictly according to textbooks. Franz Liszt's piano sonata in B minor is considered to be one of the most important, technically demanding piano works of the Romantic period and a highlight in the composer's oeuvre . It is dedicated to Robert Schumann and was created in 1853.

Jadassohn

Salomon Jadassohn (1831–1902):

Jadassohn took lessons with Franz Liszt from 1849 to 1851 ; however, he was never a piano virtuoso. Today in particular, his educational works add a lot to his reputation.

Brahms

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897):

In his article Neue Bahnen, Schumann praised Brahms as the one called, as a kind of messiah of music. The fact that many of the motifs in his sonatas are based on Schumann's music is therefore to be seen as a kind of show of respect for the older composer and patron. His piano sonatas, all of them early works, nonetheless show a high musical, independent level.

Reubke

Julius Reubke (1834-1858):

Reubke, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt since 1856 , was one of Liszt's preferred pupils during the first Weimar period. Impressed by the great B minor Sonata of his teacher he composed his Grand Sonata in B flat minor for piano two hands; this composition is considered to be the main work of the prematurely deceased.

Draeseke

Felix Draeseke (1835-1913):

Franz Liszt's pupil was a skilled pianist and, during his lifetime, a respected man in his field of music. In addition to a piano concerto in E flat major, the Sonata quasi fantasia represents his most important piano work. A first version of the composition was written in 1862 and was conceived in one movement based on Liszt's sonata. In the following years, however, Draeseke reworked it, from which the work emerged in three movements: the original system was split up by adding an intermezzo and divided into two equally weighted outer movements.

Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):

The special lyrics of this most important and most popular Russian composer are fed by various sources: Robert Schumann and the local masters in the upscale salon romance style should be mentioned in particular . After Tchaikovsky tried his hand at the piano sonata genre for the first time in 1865, he wrote the great sonata in G major in 1878 ; his Opus 37 can be described as Russia's first valid piano sonata.

Sonatas in the 20th Century

Scriabin

Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1872–1915)

Rachmaninov

Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow (1873–1943)

  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 26th
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 36

Ives

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Prokofiev

Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofiev (1891-1953)

  • Piano sonatas - six youngsters: 1904, 1907 (modified for Op. 1), 1907 (modified for Op. 28), 1907–08, 1908 (modified for Op. 29), 1908–09
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1 (1907-09)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14 (1912)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28 (1907-17)
  • Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29 (1908-17)
  • Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major (original version), Op. 38 (1923)
  • Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 (1939-40)
  • Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major Stalingrad , Op. 83 (1939-42)
  • Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84 (1939-44)
  • Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, Op. 103 (1947)
  • Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major (modified version), Op. 135 (1952-53)
  • Piano Sonata No. 10 in E minor, Op. 137 (unfinished) (1952)
  • Piano Sonata No. 11, Op. 138 (not realized)

Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch (1906–1975)

Violin sonatas

Sonatas in the 18th century

Vivaldi

Vivaldi Antonio (1678–1741):

  • Op. 1: Twelve sonatas for two violins and basso continuo
  • Sonata in G minor, Op. 1 No. 1 (RV 73)
  • Sonata in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2 (RV 67)
  • Sonata in C major op. 1 No. 3 (RV 61)
  • Sonata in E major op. 1 No. 4 (RV 66)
  • Sonata in F major op. 1 No. 5 (RV 69)
  • Sonata in D major op. 1 No. 6 (RV 62)
  • Sonata in E flat major op. 1 No. 7 (RV 65)
  • Sonata in D minor op. 1 No. 8 (RV 64)
  • Sonata in A major op. 1 No. 9 (RV 75)
  • Sonata in B flat major op. 1 No. 10 (RV 78)
  • Sonata in B minor Op. 1 No. 11 (RV 79)
  • Sonata (Variations) in D minor »Follia« op. 1 No. 12 (RV 63)
  • Op. 2: Twelve sonatas for violin and basso continuo
  • Sonata in G minor Op. 2 No. 1 (RV 27)
  • Sonata in A major op. 2 No. 2 (RV 31)
  • Sonata in D minor Op. 2 No. 3 (RV 14)
  • Sonata in F major op. 2 No. 4 (RV 20)
  • Sonata in B minor, Op. 2 No. 5 (RV 36)
  • Sonata in C major op. 2 No. 6 (RV 1)
  • Sonata in C minor, Op. 2 No. 7 (RV 8)
  • Sonata in G major op. 2 No. 8 (RV 23)
  • Sonata in E minor, Op. 2 No. 9 (RV 16)
  • Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 10 (RV 21)
  • Sonata in D major op. 2 No. 11 (RV 9)
  • Sonata in A minor, Op. 2 No. 12 (RV 32)
  • Op. 5: 6 sonatas for 1 or 2 violins (1716)
  • Sonata in F major op. 5 No. 1 (RV 18)
  • Sonata in A major op.5 No. 2 (RV 30)
  • Sonata in B flat major op. 5 No. 3 (RV 33)
  • Sonata in B minor Op. 5 No. 4 (RV 35)
  • Sonata in B flat major op.5 No. 5 (RV 76)
  • Sonata in G minor, Op. 5 No. 6 (RV 72)

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1759–1791):

A very extensive list is contained in the special article List of Chamber Music Works by Mozart with Piano .

Sonatas in the 19th century

Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):

Organ sonatas

Brook

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)

Reubke

Julius Reubke (1834-1858):

Guilmant

Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

  • Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 42
  • Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 50
  • Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 56
  • Sonata No. 4 in D minor, Op. 61
  • Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 80
  • Sonata No. 6 in B minor, Op. 86
  • Sonata No. 7 in F major op.89
  • Sonata No. 8 in A major op.91

Rheinberger

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)

  • 20 organ sonatas

Widor

Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937)

Organ symphonies (form like organ sonata):

  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 1 in C minor, op.13 No. 1 (1872)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 2 in D major, op.13 No. 2 (1872)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 3 in E minor, op.13 No. 3 (1872)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 4 in F minor, op.13 No. 4 (1872)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 5 in F minor, op. 42 No. 1 (1887)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 6 in G minor, op. 42 No. 2 (1887)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 7 in A minor, op.42 No. 3 (1887)
  • Symphonie pour orgue No. 8 in B major, op.42 No. 4 (1887)
  • Gothic Symphony in C minor, op.70 (1895)
  • Symphony novels in D major, op.73 (1900)

Sonatas for trio instrumentation

Sonatas in the 19th century

Dussek

Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760–1812)

  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in C major op. 2 No. 1 c30
  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in B flat major op. 2 No. 2 c31
  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in E minor, Op. 2 No. 3 c32
  • Sonata for piano, flute and violoncello in C major op.21 c94
  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in F major op. 24/29 No. 1 c141
  • Sonata for piano, voline and violoncello in D major op. 24/29 No. 2 c142
  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in B flat major op. 24/29 No. 3 c143
  • Sonata for piano, violin and violoncello in E flat major op.37 c169
  • Sonata for piano, flute and violoncello in F major op. 65 c214
  • Sonata for piano, violin and double bass in E flat major op. Posth. C260
  • Sonata for piano, violin and double bass in B flat major op.posth.c261 (unfinished)

Sonatas for Lute

White

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750)

  • Sonata in E minor (Prelude - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Bourrée - Minuet I - Minuet II - Gigue)

Sonatas for Guitar

Sonatas in the 19th century

Giuliani

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)

  • Sonata for Guitar op.15 (printed 1808)
  • Three Sonatas for Guitar op.96 (printed 1818)
  • Gran Sonata for guitar Eroica op.150 (printed 1840)

Molino

Francesco Molino (1768–1847)

  • Three sonatas for guitar op.6

Sor

Fernando Sor (1778-1839)

  • Sonata for Guitar op.15b (printed around 1820)
  • Grande Sonate for guitar op.22 (printed 1822)

Sonatas in the 20th Century

Albert

Heinrich Albert (1870–1950)

  • Sonata No. 1 in E minor for guitar (1920)
  • Sonata No. 2 in A major for guitar

Ambrose

Hermann Ambrosius (1897–1983)

  • Sonata in E major for guitar

Henze

Bruno Henze (1900–1978)

  • Walpurgis Sonata op.27 for guitar op.27 (1921)
  • Spring Sonata in A major for guitar op.28 (1921)
  • Sonata in A major for guitar op.72 (1944)
  • Sonata in A major for guitar op.74 (1944/47)
  • Sonata in A minor for guitar op.80 (1946)
  • Spring Sonata in A minor for guitar op.81 (1946/47)
  • Filigran (Sonata) for guitar op.90 (1947)
  • Sonata in E minor for guitar op.96 (1947)
  • Sonata in A minor for guitar op.152 (1972)

Carl Henze (1872-1946)

  • Sonata in A major for 3 guitars op.41 (1912)
  • Sonata in A major for 2 guitars op.68 (1917)

Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)

  • Royal Winter Music: First Sonata on Shapespearean Characters for guitar (1976)
  • Royal Winter Music: Second Sonata on Shapespearean Characters for guitar (1979)

José

Antonio José (1902-1936)

  • Sonata for guitar (1933)

Stingl

Anton Stingl (1908-2000)

  • Sonata in D major for guitar op.17 (1937)