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A sonatina (French: “sonatine”, German: “Sonatine") is a small sonata. As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form , but is shorter and lighter in character, or technically more elementary, than a typical sonata. [ 1 ]
The Sonatina in G major is a composition for solo piano attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven (listed as Anh. 5 No. 1 in the Kinsky–Halm Catalogue). The work was published in Hamburg, Germany, after Beethoven's death; its authenticity is doubtful, as it uses styles not previously seen in Beethoven's oeuvre.
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major (1899) [n 3] William Walton. Violin Sonata (1949/rev 1950) Carl Maria von Weber. 6 sonatas for piano and obbligato violin, J 99–104, Op. 10b (1810): F major, G major, D minor, E-flat major, A major, C major; Mieczysław Weinberg. a violin sonatina, six sonatas with piano, and three solo sonatas; Johann Paul von ...
The 19th-century collected edition published Schubert's compositions for piano and one other instrument in its eighth series in 1886, edited by Ignaz Brüll. The second to fourth pieces in that volume were Schubert's first three violin sonatas (D 384, 385 and 408), which had already been published in 1836, by Diabelli & Co. as Drei Sonatinen ...
Op. 5 No. 4 – Violin Sonata in B flat major; Op. 5 No. 5 – Violin Sonata in B minor; Op. 5 No. 6 – Violin Sonata in C minor; Op. 5 No. 7 – Violin Sonata in A minor; Op. 5 No. 8 – Violin Sonata in D major; Op. 5 No. 9 – Violin Sonata in E major; Op. 5 No. 10 – Violin Sonata in C major; Op. 5 No. 11 – Violin Sonata in G minor
A violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, often accompanied by a keyboard instrument and in earlier periods with a bass instrument doubling the keyboard bass line. The violin sonata developed from a simple baroque form with no fixed format to a standardised and complex classical form.
The second movement is in B-flat major in an elaborately ornamented sonatina form. At the beginning, there is a melody accompanied by an Alberti bass figure in the left hand. The next phrase is the same, except the key immediately changes to the parallel minor, B-flat minor. A lyrical passage with a minor descending scale ends with the dominant ...
Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.