Sheet Music for Violin Solo

Jaime Rosquellas [or Rosquillas] was born in Barcelona in 1738. He was a member of an important family of musicians from XVIII century. In october 1774 Jaime Rosquellas joined the Royal Chapel of Madr...

The catalogue of the works of Camille Saint-Saëns includes four sonatas and a single movement for violin and piano, written over a large part of the composer's life. Three works from his youth are pub...

Masterpiece of Romantic concerto literature Antonín Dvorák composed the violin concerto between 1879 and 1882. Joseph Joachim had a significant influence during the compositional period. The concerto...

The collection brings together 15 pieces from the 17th to 19th centuries, from Purcell to Tchaikovsky. It offers a varied repertoire with works by famous composers. The accompaniments are not difficul...

The Erfurt-born composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) was a successful soloist and teacher in America. His best-known pieces for young violinists are The Boy Paganini and The Infant Paganini. Both a...

The Erfurt-born composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) was a successful soloist and teacher in America. His best-known pieces for young violinists are The Boy Paganini and The Infant Paganini. Both a...

The Belgian violinist Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1802-1870) was also a teacher and composer. "Scène de Ballet" is perhaps his best-known composition. It is often played by violin students, including t...

De Bériot also composed a series of concertos. The Ninth in A minor, published in 1859, is also a popular choice for advanced violin students. The then 8-year-old Julia Fischer also performed it with...

Oskar Rieding (1846-1916) is known to all young violinists for his easily playable concerti for violin and piano. Of these, the works op. 34 to op. 36 are all in the first position. Paired with catchy...

Edmund Severn (1862-1942) was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, he studied in Berlin and elsewhere. He wrote works for solo violin, orchestra and string quartet. His best-known work...

Giuseppe Tartini invented "many kinds and difficulties of bowing, which distinguishes his performance from all others" - said Johann Joachim Quantz about the Italian violinist in 1752. In his work "L'...

Johannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano became part of the standard chamber music repertoire soon after they were written. While composing, Brahms had specific musicians in mind as...

Johannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano became part of the standard chamber music repertoire soon after they were written. While composing, Brahms had specific musicians in mind as...

The "Devil's Trill Sonata" is the most famous violin sonata by Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770). In this new scholarly-critical edition, it holds numerous surprises in store. The inclusion of all availabl...

In May of 1802, the 'Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung' praised the violin sonatas op. 23 and 24 as being '... among the best Beethoven has written, which is to say that they are among the best being wr...

An autograph fragment of the Violin Sonata op. 47 is headed in Beethoven's handwriting: "Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer, gran pazzo e compositore mulattico" - in German: mulattis...

In his symphonic poem 'Danse macabre' Saint-Saëns takes up a poem by Henri Cazalis that he had already set as an art song. Here the Devil brings the dead to life by playing his violin. Although the or...

The Romances op. 22 are today among Clara Schumann's most popular chamber music works. For violinists and pianists, they're also of particular importance due to the wealth of information by Schumann,...

The second half of the 19th century was a kind of "golden age" of the violin sonata in France: Violin sonatas as influential as those by Franck, Fauré or Saint-Saëns were among the successful works in...