Pedagogical Recommendations
The suggested études are intended for teachers and students. As these pieces are not widely known, the pedagogical notes and suggested études provide guidance geared to the level of each piece. To see suggested exercises for a piece below, click on the title of the sonata. The exercises are merely suggestions for overcoming the technical challenges of the respective piece. The exercises come from the following books:
Ševčík: Violin Studies Opus 3 (40 Variations), Suzuki: Position Études, Whistler: Introducing the Positions Vol. 2, Josephine Trott: Melodious Double Stops, Dont: Twenty-Four Études and Caprices, Kruetzer: Forty-Two Studies or Caprices, Rode: Twenty-Four Caprices, Mazas: Seventy-Five Melodious and Progressive Studies, Fiorillo: 36 Caprices or Études, Flesch: Scale System, Ries: Suite No. 3 for Violin, Op. 24, Nováček: Perpetuum Mobile, and Paganini: Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11.
Each violin sonata below also includes the ASTA level that is correlated with the piece. A more detailed description of these levels can be found here.
Emilie Mayer
Sonata in D Major for Violin and Piano (~1863)
Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano (~1863)
Sonata for Piano and Violin in F Major, Op. 17 (~1863)
Sonata in A Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 18 (~1863)
Sonata in E Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 19 (~1867)
Sonata in D Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 29 (~1869)
Pauline Viardot
Sonatina for Piano and Violin (1873)
Clémence de Grandval
Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 8 (~1851)
Elfrida Andrée
Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-Flat Major (1872)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-Flat Major (1876)
Clara Kathleen Rogers
Sonata in D Minor for Piano and Violin, Op. 25 (1893)
Agnes Zimmermann
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 1 in D minor, Op. 16 (1868)
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 2 in A minor, Op. 21 (1875)
Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 3 in G minor, Op. 23 (1879)
Helena Munktell
Sonata for Piano and Violin (1905)
Amanda Röntgen-Maier
Sonata for Piano and Violin (1878)
Mélanie Hélène Bonis
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1922)
Ethel Smyth
Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7 (1887)
Valborg Aulin
Sonata for Piano and Violin, (~1880)
Alice Tegnér
Sonata in A Minor for Violin and Piano (1901)
Ethel Barns
Sonata No. 2 in A Major (1904)
Sonata No. 4 in G Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 24 (1910)
Elisabeth Kuyper
Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 1 (1902)
Dora Pejačević
Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 26 “Spring Sonata” (1909)
Slavic Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 43 (1917)