Viola - Repertoire (selection)
Solo viola | |
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Luis-Casimir Escoffier | 24 Préludes (op. 22), 1850 |
Max Reger | 3 suites (op. 131d), 1916 |
Paul Hindemith | sonata for viola solo (op. 11,5), 1919 sonata, 1937 |
Johann Nepomuk David | sonata (op. 31,3), 1943 |
Igor Stravinsky | Elegy, 1944 |
Bernd Alois Zimmermann | sonata, 1955 |
Luciano Berio | Sequenza VI, 1967 |
John Cage | Music for viola, 1984 |
György Ligeti | sonata for viola solo, 1994 |
Chamber music | |
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Antonio Vivaldi | |
Wilhelm Friedmann Bach | |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | |
Johann Christian Bach | 6 trios |
Georg Philipp Telemann | trio sonatas |
Johann Gottlieb Graun | sonatas |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 2 duets for violin and viola (K. 423, 424), 1783 Kegelstatt trio (K. 498) |
Mikhail Glinka | |
Joseph Haydn | string trios |
Michael Haydn | concerto C-major for viola and organ |
J. G. Albrechtsberger | trios (2 violas, bass) |
C. Ditters von Dittersdorf | 6 sonatas (2 violins, viola) |
From 1800 arrangements of horn or cello sonatas for viola. Duets for violin and viola. Pieces for viola and cello (2 violas and cello) Various string trios: 2 violins + bass (old) > violin + viola + cello (today's standard scoring). 2 violins + viola. string quartet (string quartets with 2 violas) string quintet with 2 violas |
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel | |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
Viola + piano | |
Robert Schumann | Märchenbilder (op. 113), 1851 |
Anton Rubinstein | Charakterstücke (op. 11,3.), 1855 |
Franz Liszt | Romance oubliée (1880) |
Alexander Glasunow | Elégie (op. 44), 1893 |
Johannes Brahms | 2 sonatas for viola and piano (op. 120), 1895, originally for clarinet and piano |
Max Reger | sonata for viola and piano (op. 107), originally for clarinet |
Arthur Honegger | sonata for viola and piano, 1920 |
Nicolai A. Roslavec | 2 sonatas for viola and piano, 1929, 1930 |
Darius Milhaud | |
Paul Hindemith | sonata for viola and piano (op. 11,4), 1919 sonatas (op. 25,4), 1922 sonata, 1939 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch | sonata (op. 147), 1975 |
Bohuslav Martinů | |
Paul Dessau | |
Hans Werner Henze | sonata, 1979 |
Viola solo and orchestra | |
Georg Philipp Telemann | |
Carl Stamitz | |
Michael Haydn | |
Johann Christian Bach | |
Alessandro Rolla | concerto for viola and orchestra F-major duo concertant for violin and viola (op. 4,2) |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Sinfonia concertante (KV 364), 1779 |
C.M. von Weber | Andante e Rondo ungarese |
Hector Berlioz | Harold in Italien, 1834 |
Max Bruch | Romanze (op. 85), 1911 |
Emil Kreuz | concerto for viola and orchestra (op. 20), 1893 |
Richard Strauss | Don Quixote |
Paul Hindemith | Chamber music Nr.5 (op. 36,4), 1927 Concert music (op. 48), 1930 |
Zoltán Kodály | |
Béla Bartók | concerto for viola and orchestra (completed by T. Serly 1945–1949). |
Strings in the orchestra, string orchestra | |
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Johann Sebastian Bach | Brandenburg concertos No. 3 and 6 |
P. Locatelli | Concerti grossi |
Fr. Geminiani | Concerti grossi |
Georg Philipp Telemann | concerto for viola solo Telemann was the first composer to substitute the viola for the viol in trio sonatas. |