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 in the development of the clarinet repertoire. Several important transcriptions are also possible, including sonatas by Mozart, Schubert, Reinecke, Copland, and Prokofiev.
Clarinet sonatas[]
- This list is approximately in chronological order.
- François Devienne: Clarinet sonata no.1 (1798), Clarinet sonata no.2 (1798)
- Ferdinand Ries: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 29 (1808)
- Felix Mendelssohn: Clarinet Sonata (1824)
- Theodore Gouvy: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882)
- Carl Reinecke: "Undine" sonata, Op.167 (1882) originally for flute, also arranged for violin
- Felix Draeseke: (1887), which also can be played by a violin
- Josef Rheinberger: , Op. 105a (1893)
- Johannes Brahms:
- Clarinet Sonata No. 1 and Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (both 1894), which can also be played by a viola
- Max Reger:
- (1900)
- (1900)
- (1909)
- Charles Villiers Stanford: , Op. 129 (1912), which can also be played by a viola
- Camille Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata (1921)[1]
- Darius Milhaud: Sonatina for Clarinet (1927)
- John Cage: Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933)
- Arnold Bax: (1934)
- Antoni Szalowski: Clarinet Sonatina (1936)
- Paul Hindemith: (1939)
- Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
- Aaron Copland: Sonata for Clarinet (Violin) and Piano (1943)
- York Bowen: Clarinet sonata (1943)
- John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata (1943)
- Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op.94 (1943), originally for flute, also arranged for violin
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128 (1945)
- Nino Rota: Sonata in D major for Clarinet and Piano (1945)
- Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28 (1945)
- Herbert Howells: Clarinet Sonata (1946)
- Marga Richter: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1948)
- Malcolm Arnold: Clarinet Sonatina (1951)
- Bohuslav Martinů: Clarinet Sonatina, H. 356 (1956)
- Francis Poulenc:
- Sonata for two clarinets, Op. 7 (1918/1945)
- Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, Op. 32 (1922/1945)
- Clarinet Sonata (1962)
- Carlos Guastavino : Clarinet sonata (1970)
- Vyacheslav Artyomov:
- (1966)
- (1971)
- Jack Cooper: Sonata for Clarinet (1999)[2]
- Peter Klatzow: Sonata (2007)
- Octavio Vazquez: Clarinet Sonata (2009)
- Dieter Lehnhoff: Sonata Urbana for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 (2010)
- Jennifer Higdon: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (2011)
- Hendrik Hofmeyr: Clarinet Sonata (2013)
- Bruno Vlahek: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 42 (2015)
- David Conte: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2019)
Notes[]
- ^ Sabina Teller Ratner, "Saint-Saëns, Camille: Works", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 18 December 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ^ The Clarinet, International Clarinet Association, William Nichols review, Dec. 2010, Vol. 38, #1
Further reading[]
- Burnet C. Tuthill, "Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano: Annotated Listings", Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Autumn, 1972), pp. 308–328.
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