Sheet Music for Violin Solo

The eleventh sonata, in five movements, is one of the most elaborate in the set. Its first movement (A tempo giusto) is very ornate and makes attractive use of syncopation. The second movement (Vivace...

The twelfth sonata, in four movements, makes a fitting climax to the set. Its first movement (Vivace) is somewhat corrente-like, with delicately traced passage-work. The Andante that follows is distin...

This sonata in B flat major was only recently identified as a sonata by Bitti, since its manuscript in Dresden lacks the name of the composer. Bitti's authorship is not in doubt, however, especially s...

The present work consists of four movements in the tempo-sequence slow - fast - slow - fast: the 'classic' structure associated especially with Corelli. The slow movements are lyrical, the fast moveme...

This four movement sonata exemplifies Albicastro's mastery of the Corellian style.

This unusually elaborate sonata, consisting of seven movements (or sections), survives uniquely in Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, where it forms part of the Di Martinelli family archive.

Eberl's Sonata in D major, Op.20, the sixth of seven sonatas with violin, was composed around 1803 and dedicated to Dorothea Ertmann, the highly regarded pianist who many have suggested as Beethoven's...

Among Vienna's many composers and pianists of the time, Anton Eberl (1765-1807) was the one considered most worthy of comparison with Beethoven. His Sonata in B flat major, Op. 35, the last of seven s...

A manuscript of this sonata was discovered in the collection of the Rose family, Lairds of Kilravock (near Inverness). Copied in a late 17th- or early 18th-century hand and inserted into a keyboard bo...

Only a handful of Schreivogel's compositions for his instrument have survived. Among them is this sparkling three-movement sonata for violin and continuo in E flat major, evidently composed late in hi...

La Libertà is the most original, and among the most attractive, of Maurice Greene's secular vocal compositions on Italian texts. Strong circumstantial evidence indicates that he wrote it as a composit...

In this first volume Sonata No. 1, in E minor, opens with a lively movement full of motivic play between violin and continuo. It continues with a fleet corrente-style movement, then a slow movement fo...

Antoine Favre (c.1670-c.1739) was a composer of rare ability whose few surviving collections, all published during the 1730s, have hitherto remained unknown not only to performers but also to the majo...

The sonatas of the Venetian composer and priest Diogenio Bigaglia (c.1676-c.1745) have long found favour among recorder players in particular. This group of three sonatas for violin (or alternative tr...

It is one of numerous concertos by Vivaldi known to have been played by Anna Maria, the most celebrated of the many remarkable performers produced by the Ospedale della Pietà, the Venetian charitable...

These 50 variations are based on a Gavotte by Arcangelo Corelli. Each variation is a small étude developing an important element of violin technique.

A solemn introductory Grave where the solo violin occasionally breaks out from the repeated chords with short cantabile sections, is followed by a fluent Allegro with difficult sounding passage work,...