Repertoire (selection)
| Solo viola | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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. |