List of compositions featuring the violin

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For Solo Violin

Bach, Johann Sebastian

- Chaconne

- Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006

Baltzar, Thomas

- A Prelude for the Violin

Banister, John

- A Division Upon A Ground

Bull, Ole

- The Mothers Prayer

Corbellini, Vincenzo

• Verdi's Rigoletto in 12 studies freely transcribed for Violin solo

Derecskei, András

- Sonata for Solo Violin No.1

- Sonata for Solo Violin No.2

Dont, Jakob

- 24 Etudes or Caprices Op.35 for Violin

Dworzak von Walden, Eusebio

- 6 Caprices pour violon, Op.1

Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm

- The Last Rose of Summer (Étude No.6)

- Études pour le violon à plusieurs parties

- Grand caprice pour violon seul sur 'Le Roi des Aulnes' de F. Schubert

Fiorillo, Federigo

- 36 Caprices for Violin

Kreutzer, Rodolphe

- Caprices or Etudes

Nickell, Robbie

- Romance for Solo Violin in B-Flat Major

Ševčík, Otakar

-Violin Studies, Op.7: Studies Preparatory to the Shake and Development in Double-Stopping

Paganini, Niccolò

- 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op.1

Reger, Max

- Präludien und Fugen für Violine solo, Op.117

Rode, Pierre

- 24 Caprices for Violin etudes

- 12 Etudes for Violin

Sauret, Émile

- Suite for Violin Solo, Op.68

Soldan, Otto

- Adagio Religioso Quartet for Violin Alone Op.2

St. George Tucker, Tui

- Amoroso

Tartini, Giuseppe

- L'Arte dell' Arco

Vecsey, Franz von

- Prelude & Fugue for Solo Violin

Vieuxtemps, Henri

- 6 Concert Etudes, Op.16

- 36 Etudes for Violin, Op.48

Wieniawski, Henryk

- 8 Etudes for 2 Violins, Op.18

Wohlfahrt, Franz

-Sixty Studies for the Violin, Op. 45, Part I

Yost, Gaylord

- The Yost System for Violin Exercises for Change of Position

Ysaye, Eugene

- Solo Violin Sonata No.1

- Solo Violin Sonata No.2

- Solo Violin Sonata No.3

- Solo Violin Sonata No.4

- Solo Violin Sonata No.5

- Solo Violin Sonata No.6

For Violin and Piano

Violin Sonatas

Baroque

Agrell, Johan

- Sonata a Violino Solo [with basso continuo]

Albinoni, Tomaso

- 6 Sonate da Chiesa, Op.4

- Trattenimenti Armonici, Op.6

Bach, Johann Sebastian

- Sonatas for Violin and Clavier, BWV 1014-1019

- Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Handel, George Frideric

- Violin Sonata, HWV 372

Mattheson, Johann

- Der brauchbare Virtuoso

Classical

• Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in G minor, H.524.5 (Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel)
• Violin Sonata No.1 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.2 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.3 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.4 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.5 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.6 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.7 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.8 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.9 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Sonata No.10 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Sonata in E major, Op.69 'Amicitia' (Cramer, Johann Baptist)
• Violin Sonata K.296 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.301 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.303 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.304 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.305 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.306 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.376 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.377 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.378 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.379 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.380 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.402 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.403 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.454 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.481 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.526 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Sonata K.547 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)

Romantic

• Bach - Chaconne violin and piano accompaniment by Mendelssohn
• Violin Sonata Op.10 (Bargiel, Woldemar)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.78 (Brahms, Johannes)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.100 (Brahms, Johannes)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.108 (Brahms, Johannes)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.60 (Brüll, Ignaz)
• Violin Sonata, Op.28 (Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel)
• Violin Sonata, Op.82 (Elgar, Edward)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.13 (Fauré, Gabriel)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.108 (Fauré, Gabriel)
• Violin Sonata (Franck, César)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.9 (Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul)
• Violin Sonata No.4, Op.12 (Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul)
• Violin Sonata, Op.25 (Goldmark, Karl)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.8 (Grieg, Edvard)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.13 (Grieg, Edvard)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.45 (Grieg, Edvard)
• Sonata for Violin or Flute and Piano, Op.64 (Hummel, Johann Nepomuk)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 59 (Indy, Vincent d')
• Sonata for Piano and Flute or Violin, Op.22 (Kalkbrenner, Friedrich Wilhelm)
• Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 21 (Medtner, Nikolay)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.44 (Medtner, Nikolay)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.57 (Medtner, Nikolay)
• Violin Sonata, Op.52 (Nápravník, Eduard Frantsovitch)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.9 (Nielsen, Carl)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.35 (Nielsen, Carl)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.73 (Raff, Joseph Joachim)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.78 (Raff, Joseph Joachim)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.128 (Raff, Joseph Joachim)
• Violin Sonata No.4, Op.129 (Raff, Joseph Joachim)
• Violin Sonata No.5, Op.145 (Raff, Joseph Joachim)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.13 (Rubinstein, Anton)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.19 (Rubinstein, Anton)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.75 (Saint-Saëns, Camille)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.102 (Saint-Saëns, Camille)
• Violin Sonata (Schulhoff, Erwin)
• Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105 (Schumann, Robert)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.121 (Schumann, Robert)
• Violin Sonata, Op.12 (Sinding, Christian)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.73 (Sinding, Christian)
• Violin Sonata, Op.19 (Stenhammar, Wilhelm)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.13 (Stojowski, Sigismond)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.37 (Stojowski, Sigismond)
• Violin Sonata, Op.30 (Thuille, Ludwig)
• Violin Sonata, Op.23 (Vierne, Louis)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.1 (Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in A minor, Op.10 (Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.30 (Thuille, Ludwig)

Early 20th c.

• Violin Sonata (Debussy, Claude)
• Violin Sonata No.1, Op.2 (Enescu, George)
• Violin Sonata No.2, Op.6 (Enescu, George)
• Violin Sonata No.3, Op.25 (Enescu, George)
• Violin Sonata (Janáček, Leoš)
• Violin Sonata, Op.6 (Korngold, Erich Wolfgang)
• Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano (Ravel, Maurice)
• Sonata for Violin and Cello (Ravel, Maurice)

Modern

• Sonata for Violin and Piano (St. George Tucker, Tui)
• Sonata for Violin and Piano II (St. George Tucker, Tui)

Other pieces for Violin and Piano

Abing

- Erquan Yingyue (Arrangement)

Auer, Leopold

- Reverie, Op.3

- Rhapsodie Hongroise, Op.5

Bach, Johann Sebastian

- Suite for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1025

Beethoven, Ludwig van

- Rondo for Violin and Piano WoO 41

Bruch, Max

- Swedish Dances, Op.63

- Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, Op.75

Catoire, Georgy

- Elegie for Piano and Violin, Op.26

Chabrier, Emmanuel

- España

Chopin, Frederic

- Nocturnes Op.9 Arr.

- Waltz Op.18 Arr. for violin and piano

- Grande Valse Brillante, Op.18 Arr.

- Polonaises, Op.26 Arr.

- Nocturnes Op.27 Arr.

- Nocturnes, Op.32 Arr.

- Waltzes No.1, 2 & 3, Op.34 Arr.

- Waltz, Op.42 Arr.

- Waltzes, Op.64 No.1 & 2 Arr.

Davidson, Robert

- Message Ground (violin version)

Debussy, Claude

- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - from Préludes (Hartmann)

Elgar, Edward

- Salut d'Amour Op.12

Enescu, George

- Impressions of Childhood for Violin and Piano, Op.28

Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm

- Le Carnaval de Venise, Op.18

- Fantasie Brillante sur la Marche et la Romance d’Otello de Rossini, Op.11

Goldmark, Karl

- Suite No.2 for Violin and Piano, Op.43

Grieg, Edvard

- Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 (Sitt)

- Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Op.55

Hallman, Joseph

- Essay for violin and piano

Paganini, Niccolò

- La Streghe, Op.8

MacDowell, Edward

- To a Humming Bird from 6 Fancies, Op.7 No.2

Massenet, Jules

- Thais Meditation for Violin and Piano

Monti, Vittorio

- Csárdás

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

- Ave verum corpus, K.618 Arr.

Raff, Joseph Joachim

- 6 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.85

- Improvistation Liebesfee

Schoenberg, Arnold

- Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Op.47

Schubert, Franz

- Fantasy for Violin and Piano

- Schwanengesang, D.957 Tr.script.

Sarasate, Pablo de

- Spanish Dances Nos. 3 & 4, Op.22

Sibelius, Jean

- Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Op.80

Sinding, Christian

- Suite in F Major for Violin and Piano

- 4 Stücke for Violin and Piano, Op.81

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

- 2 Pieces for violin and piano, Op.6

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr

- Sérénade mélancolique, Op.26

Wieniawski, Henryk

- Polonaise Brillante No.2, Op.21

For Violin and Orchestra

Violin Concertos

See also Violin Concerti.

• Violin Concerto in A Minor (Accolay, Jean-Baptiste)
• Violin Concerto in D Minor (Accolay, Jean-Baptiste)
• Violin Concerto, Op.54 (Arensky, Anton)
• Violin Concerto (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel' (Berg, Alban)
• Violin Concerto, Op.77 (Brahms, Johannes)
• Violin Concerto No.1, Op.26 (Bruch, Max)
• Violin Concerto No.2, Op.44 (Bruch, Max)
• Violin Concerto, Op.53 (Dvořák, Antonín Leopold)
• Violin Concerto, Op.61 (Elgar, Edward)
• Violin Concerto in a, Op.82 (Glazunov, Alexander)
• Violin Concerto, Op.28 (Goldmark, Karl)
• Violin Concerto, Op.11 (Joachim, Joseph)
• Violin Concerto No.17 (Kreutzer, Rodolphe)
• Violin Concerto, Op.64 (Mendelssohn, Felix)
• Violin Concerto, Op.30 (Moszkowski, Moritz)
• Violin Concerto No.1, K.207 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Concerto No.2, K.211 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Concerto No.3, K.216 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Concerto No.4, K.218 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Concerto No.5, K.219 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
• Violin Concerto, Op.33 (Nielsen, Carl)
• Violin Concerto No.1,Op.6 (Paganini, Niccolò)
• Violin Concerto No.2, Op.7 (Paganini, Niccolò)
• Violin Concerto No.4 (Paganini, Niccolò)
• Violin Concerto No.5 (Paganini, Niccolò)
• Violin Concerto No.6 (Paganini, Niccolò)
• Violin Concerto No.2, Op.63 (Prokofiev, Sergey)
• Violin Concerto No.3, Op.61 (Saint-Saëns, Camille)
• Violin Concerto in D minor (1853), Op. Posth. (Schumann, Robert)
• Violin Concerto, Op.47 (Sibelius, Jean)
• Violin Concerto No.8, Op.47 (Spohr, Louis)
• Violin Concerto, Op.6 (Svendsen, Johan)
• Violin Concerto, Op.35 (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr)
• Violin Concerto No.2, Op.19 (Vieuxtemps, Henri)
• Violin Concerto No.3, Op.25 (Vieuxtemps, Henri)
• Violin Concerto No.4, Op.31 (Vieuxtemps, Henri)
• Violin Concerto No.5, Op.37 (Vieuxtemps, Henri)
• Violin Concerto No.7, Op.49 (Vieuxtemps, Henri)
• Violin Concerto No.1, Op.14 (Wieniawski, Henryk)
• Violin Concerto No.2, Op.22 (Wieniawski, Henryk)

For Violin and Orchestra

• Romance for Violin and Orchestra Op.50 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Romance for Violin and Orchestra Op.40 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
• Adagio appassionato for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 57 (Bruch, Max)
• Concertstück for Violin and Orchestra, Op.84 (Bruch, Max)
• Poème, Op.25 (Chausson, Ernest)
• Concertino in D, Op.12 (Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm)
• Zigeunerweisen, Op.20 (Sarasate, Pablo de)
• Airs écossais, Op.34 (Sarasate, Pablo de)
• Introduction et Caprice Jota Op.41 (Sarasate, Pablo de)

For More Than One Violin

See also List of Compositions for String Duo

• Campagnoli, Bartolomeo - 7 Divertimenti, Op.18
• Dancla, Charles - 2 Duos Op. 19 and 20 for 2 Violins
• Gaviniès, Pierre - 24 Matinées
• Jansa, Leopold - 6 Duos for 2 Violins, Op.74
• Paulinyi, Zoltan - Biduo d'ouro (2006)
• Rolla, Alessandero

- Duetti a Violino e Viola, Op.4

- 3 Duos for 2 Violins, Op.18

- 3 Duos for 2 Violins, Op.20

- 3 Duos for 2 Violins, Op.22

With Basso Continuo (Trio sonatas)

• Arne, Thomas - 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op.3
• Bach, Johann Sebastian - Trio Sonata in C major for two violins and basso continuo, BWV 1037
• Beethoven, Ludwig van - 6 Ländler for 2 Violins and Bass (Cello), WoO 15
• Campioni, Carlo - 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op.7
• Schwindl, Friedrich - 24 Menuettos for 2 Violins and a Bass

For Violin and Viola

See List of Compositions for String Duo

See Also

• • Boccherini, Luigi Rodolfo - 6 Sextets, Op.15 (2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, and flute)
  • Juon, Paul - Piano Sextet in C minor, Op.22 (2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, and piano)
• List of Compositions with Orchestral Violin Parts

Violin Composers

• List of compositions by Niccolò Paganini
• List of compositions by Zoltan Paulinyi
• List of compositions by Henryk Wieniawski