Brahms: Violin Sonatas
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Editor: Michael Struck Fingering: Martin Helmchen Instrumentation: Piano, Violin Binding: Hardcover ISMN: 9790201815664 Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches Pages: 202 Urtext / Critical Edition Description Brahms early on engaged with the violin sonata genre. As early as 1853 he wrote a sonata in a Minor, which - like so many other youthful works of this self-critical composer - no longer survives. Thus the G-Major sonata, Op. 78, written in 1878/79, is now counted as his first contribution to the genre; it has the nickname "Regenlied Sonata" (literally "rain-song sonata") because of the quotation from a song that appears in the finale. in summer 1886 Brahms composed, almost simultaneously, the two sonatas, Op. 100 and 108. All three works now have a firm place in the violinistic canon. We round off our volume with the Scherzo in C Minor that Brahms contributed to the so-called "F.A.E Sonata", which he composed together with Robert Schumann a