• in the Baroque
  Baroque music
  Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
  
   era, there were many works written for the viola da gamba, including sonatas (the most famous being Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  's three, now most often played on the cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  )
• in the Classical era and early Romantic
  Romantic music
  Romantic music or music in the Romantic Period is a musicological and artistic term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in Western music history, from 1810 to 1900....
  
  , 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
  Viola d'amore
  The viola d'amore is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin.- Structure and sound :...
  
  , 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
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  's opus 120 clarinet sonatas in the late 19th century, that specified the viola as an alternate. Two early exceptions were the viola sonatas of Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
   (1824, posthumously published around 1981) and the opus 1 sonata of the composer Karl Ernst Naumann (1832-1910), published in 1854.

Work list

• Malcolm Arnold
  Malcolm Arnold
  Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
  
  
  • Sonata Op. 17, for viola and piano (1947)
• Granville Bantock
  Granville Bantock
  Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano in F "Colleen" (1919)
• Jan Zdeněk Bartoš
  Jan Zdenek Bartoš
  Jan Zdeněk Bartoš was a Czech composer.- Biography :Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from business school, Bartoš left for France. He played as a concertmaster of the Messageries Maritimes naval company in Marseille...
  
  
  • Sonatina for viola and piano, Op. 46
• Marion Bauer
  Marion Bauer
  Marion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century....
  
  
  • Viola Sonata op. 22 (1932)
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano in G (1922)
  • Fantasy sonata for viola and harp (1927)
• Jack Beeson
  Jack Beeson
  Jack Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1953)
• Arthur Benjamin
  Arthur Benjamin
  Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rhumba, composed in 1938.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Sonata in E minor, 1942
• Lennox Berkeley
  Lennox Berkeley
  Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
  
  
  • Sonata in D minor, Op. 22 (see Description from publisher – written in 1946)
• Valentin Bibik
  • Sonata for solo viola No.1, op.31 (1977)
  • Sonata for solo viola No.2, op.136 (1999)
  • Sonata vor viola and piano No.1, op.72 (1988)
  • Sonata vor viola and piano No.2, op.137 (2000)
• Easley Blackwood Jr.
  Easley Blackwood Jr.
  Easley Blackwood, , is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.Blackwood was born in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  
  • Sonata no. 1 Op. 1 (1953)
  • Sonata no. 2 Op. 43 (2001) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Aug05/Blackwood_sonatas_90000081.htm)
• Arthur Bliss
  Arthur Bliss
  ‎Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1933) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Oct03/Bliss_piano_quartet.htm)
• York Bowen
  York Bowen
  Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...
  
  
  • Sonata no. 1 Op. 18 in C minor (by 1911?)
  • Sonata no. 2 Op. 22 in F (1911) (http://www.sjbsoloviola.com/SJB%20SoloViola%20Rep.html, http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/strings88/Reviews.shtml)
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  
  • Sonata in F minor
  • Sonata in E-flat, alternate versions of the clarinet sonatas
    Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)
    The Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120, Nos. 1 and 2 are a pair of works written for clarinet and piano by the Romantic composer Johannes Brahms. They were written in 1894 and are dedicated to the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The sonatas stem from a period in Brahms’s life where he “discovered” the beauty...
    
     Op. 120 nos. 1 and 2
• Arthur Butterworth
  Arthur Butterworth
  Arthur Butterworth MBE is an English composer, conductor and teacher.Butterworth attended the Royal Manchester College of Music , where he studied composition with Richard Hall and also learned the trumpet and conducting...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1986, though sketched 1949)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and harp (Op. 144 — the cello and harp sonata is if not a later work, published later)
• Paul Chihara
  Paul Chihara
  Paul Seiko Chihara is an American composer.Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent several years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho....
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1996)
• Rebecca Clarke
  Rebecca Helferich Clarke
  Rebecca Clarke was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London, later becoming one of the first female professional orchestral players...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1919)
• Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
  • Sonatas for viola and piano
• Felix Draeseke
  Felix Draeseke
  Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
  
  
  • Sonata in C minor (1892)
  • Sonata in F (1901–2) both originally for the viola alta
• Jacobo Ficher
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 80 (1953)
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano
• Lillian Fuchs
  Lillian Fuchs
  Lillian Fuchs , an American violist, teacher and composer, is considered to be among the finest instrumentalists of her time. She hailed from a musically talented family: her brothers, Joseph Fuchs, a violinist, and Harry Fuchs, a cellist, performed with her on numerous commercial recordings...
  
  
  • Sonata pastorale, for solo viola
• Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano in D minor, Op. 86
• Harald Genzmer
  Harald Genzmer
  Harald Genzmer was a German composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Blumenthal, near Bremen, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule für Music beginning in 1928.From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola solo (1957)
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Sonatine for Viola and Piano
• Roberto Gerhard
  Roberto Gerhard
  Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Robert Gerhard.-Life:...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1946) — later reworked as his cello sonata
• Mikhail Glinka
  Mikhail Glinka
  Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano in D minor (incomplete) (1835)
• Hilding Hallnäs
  Hilding Hallnäs
  Hilding Hallnäs was a Swedish composer. Hallnäs was married to the actress Gun Holmquist.-Life and career:Hallnäs's father had been a tenor and sang in choirs...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano Op. 19 (1943) (http://hem.fyristorg.com/m.bengt.andersson/english.htm)
• Hans Werner Henze
  Hans Werner Henze
  Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
  
  
  • Viola sonata (1979)
• Kurt Hessenberg
  Kurt Hessenberg
  Kurt Hessenberg was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.- Life :...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano Op. 94
• Jennifer Higdon
  Jennifer Higdon
  Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1990)
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
  
  • 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
  Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...
  
  
  • Sonata for solo viola
• Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  
  • Viola sonata (1920)
• Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
  
  
  • Campuan Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 371 (1982) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/feb00/hovanessworks2.htm)
  • Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 423
• Bertold Hummel
  Bertold Hummel
  Bertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...
  
  
  • Sonatina No.1 Op. 35b (1969) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_35B.html
  • Sonatina No.2 Op. 52b (1973) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_52B.html
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
  
  
  • Sonata in E-flat for viola and piano, Op. 5 no. 3
• Miriam Hyde
  Miriam Hyde
  Miriam Beatrice Hyde AO, OBE was an Australian composer, pianist, poet and music educator.She composed over 150 works for piano, songs and other instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a concert pianist with eminent conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Bernard Heinze and...
  
  
  • Sonata in B minor for viola and piano (1937)
• Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...
  
  
  • Sonata no. 1 (1949)
  • Sonata no. 2 (1978)
• David Johnstone
  • Sonatango, Sonata with tango influences for viola solo publ. 2007
• Paul Juon
  Paul Juon
  Paul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...
  
  
  • Sonata Op. 15 in D (1901)
  • Sonata Op. 82 in F minor (version of clarinet sonata) (1923)
• Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola solo
• Friedrich Kiel
  Friedrich Kiel
  Friedrich Kiel was a German composer and music teacher.Writing of the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, the famous scholar and critic Wilhelm Altmann notes that it was Kiel’s extreme modesty which kept him and his exceptional works from receiving the consideration they deserved...
  
  
  • Sonata, Op. 67 in G minor
• Luigi von Kunits
  Luigi von Kunits
  Luigi von Kunits was an Austrian conductor, composer, violinist, and pedagogue. He was the founding conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1922....
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1917)
• Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek
  Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola solo
• Libby Larsen
  Libby Larsen
  Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (2001)
• Victor Legley
  • Sonata for viola and piano Op. 13 (1943) (http://www.cebedem.be/composers/legley_vic/en.html)
• Lowell Liebermann
  Lowell Liebermann
  Lowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano Op.13 (1984)
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Viola
• Bohuslav Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1955)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano in C minor
    Viola Sonata (Mendelssohn)
    Felix Mendelssohn's Viola Sonata in C minor was composed when he was only 15 years old. The autograph score is dated 14 February 1824. The work was not published in Mendelssohn's lifetime and it was not assigned an opus number. For the time, a viola sonata was a rare genre of chamber music and...
    
     (1824)
• Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
  
  • Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano, Op. 240 (1941)
  • Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano, Op. 244 (1944)
• Paul Müller-Zürich
  • Sonata for Viola Solo (1979)
• Jacques Murgier
  • Sonata for Viola Solo
• Ludvig Norman
  Ludvig Norman
  Ludvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century....
  
  
  • Sonata in G Minor for Viola and Piano, Op. 32 (1869)
• George Onslow
  • three sonatas op. 16 (played on cello or viola)
• George Perle
  George Perle
  George Perle was a composer and music theorist. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Perle was an alumnus of DePaul University...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 12
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
  
  • three sonatas opp. 49 1 and 2 and Op. 107 (alternates of clarinet sonatas in A-flat major, F-sharp minor (1900) and B-flat major, 1908-9)
• George Rochberg
  George Rochberg
  George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1979)
• Alessandro Rolla
  Alessandro Rolla
  Alessandro Rolla was widely acknowledged in his time as a violin and, especially, viola virtuoso, composer and teacher. His contribution to technique, repertoire and history of music is greatly underestimated...
  
  
  • sonatas for viola with continuo
• Johannes Röntgen
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
• Nino Rota
  Nino Rota
  Nino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
  
  
  • Viola Sonata in G (1934-5, revised 1970)
  • Viola Sonata in C major (1945)
• Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano Op. 49 in F minor (1855)
• José Serebrier
  José Serebrier
  José Serebrier is a Uruguayan conductor and composer. He married American soprano Carole Farley in 1969.- Youth :Serebrier was born in Montevideo, and first conducted an orchestra at the age of eleven, while at school. The school orchestra toured the country, which meant he was able to notch up...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola Solo (1955)
• Philipp Scharwenka
  Philipp Scharwenka
  Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka was a German composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka.- Early training :...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano "Sonate fantasia" in G minor Op. 106 (1899) (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogMar03.html, http://www.nyvs.org/events/past/200506season.html)
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
  
  • Arpeggione Sonata
    Arpeggione Sonata
    The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today...
    
     in A minor, for arpeggione and piano, D. 821
• Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and percussion
• Alexander Shchetynsky
  Alexander Shchetynsky
  Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas....
  
  
  • Sonata for solo viola (1987)
• Vissarion Shebalin
  Vissarion Shebalin
  Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was a Soviet composer.-Biography:Shebalin was born in Omsk, where his parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when, following the advice of his professor, he went to Moscow to show his first compositions to...
  
  
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 147 (1975)
• David Stanley Smith
  David Stanley Smith
  David Stanley Smith was an American composer.Smith started his studies with Horatio Parker in 1895 at Yale University, where his friends included Charles Ives, and was appointed organist at the Center Church in New Haven...
  
  
  • Viola sonata, Op. 72 (1934) (David Stanley Smith Papers at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University)
• Carl Stamitz
  Carl Stamitz
  Karl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...
  
  
  • A sonata originally for viola d'amore (http://www.violadamoresocietyofamerica.org/TheStamitzFamily.html)
• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
  
  
  • Viola sonata (1965)
• Johann Baptist Vanhal
  Johann Baptist Vanhal
  Johann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...
  
  
  • Viola sonata in E-flat
  • Four sonatas for viola and piano, Op. 5 (in C major, D, F and C)
• Henri Vieuxtemps
  Henri Vieuxtemps
  Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century....
  
  
  • Sonata (Unfinished) for Viola and Piano, Op. post.
  • Sonata for viola and piano in Bb, Op. 36 (1863 or before)
• 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) (http://claudet.club.fr/Vainberg/Genres.html)
• George Wilson
  • Sonata for Viola and Piano (1952)
• Richard Edward Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson is an American composer of orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music. Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra...
  
  
  • Sonata for viola and piano (1989)

See also

• Viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Viola concerto
  Viola concerto
  The viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments, usually an orchestra or chamber music ensemble. Early examples of the viola concerto include, among others, Georg Philipp Telemann's concerto in G major, and several concertos by the Stamitz clan...
  
  
• Bassoon sonata
  Bassoon sonata
  A bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century. Occasionally, sonatas written for bassoon can also be performed on cello...
  
  
• Cello sonata
  Cello sonata
  A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven...
  
  
• Clarinet sonata
  Clarinet Sonata
  A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire...
  
  

• Flute sonata
  Flute sonata
  A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo.-List of Flute Sonatas:*George Antheil...
  
  
• Piano sonata
  Piano sonata
  A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement , two movements , five or even more movements...
  
  
• Violin sonata
  Violin sonata
  A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.-A:*Ella Adayevskaya**Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano...
  
  
• Violoncello sonata

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