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The Prelude in D major, Op. 23, No. 4 is a solo piano piece composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1901 and published in 1903. It is part of a set of ten preludes written by the Russian composer that demonstrate his mature Romantic style. The work is distinguished by its flowing left-hand accompaniment...

The Prelude in D major, BWV 874, is a keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach, serving as the fifth prelude and fugue in Book II of "The Well-Tempered Clavier." Compiled in the early 1740s, the collection was designed to demonstrate the musical viability of playing in all 24 major and minor keys. Thi...

Handel's HWV 371 is a four-movement sonata in D major for violin and continuo, composed around 1749–50 and considered his final contribution to the violin sonata genre. The movements follow the sequence Affettuoso, Allegro, Largo, and Allegro. The work was not published during Handel's lifetime. It...

Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94bis represents a significant adaptation of his 1943 Flute Sonata. David Oistrakh’s premiere in 1944 showcased this innovative work, which demonstrates Prokofiev's masterful ability to translate musical ideas across instruments. The sonata is particul...

Dmitri Shostakovich's Prelude in D major, Op. 34 No. 5 is a solo piano piece from his cycle of 24 preludes composed in 1932-33. The cycle traverses all major and minor keys following the circle of fifths. Each prelude is a compact miniature demonstrating Shostakovich's approach to keyboard compositi...

Alexander Scriabin's Prelude in D major, Op. 11 No. 5, is a solo piano miniature from his cycle of 24 preludes, composed in 1896. This collection was written in the tradition of Frédéric Chopin's Op. 28 Preludes, with each piece exploring a different major or minor key. Marked Allegro, the D major p...

Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 5 No. 1, is a Baroque sonata for violin and basso continuo published in Rome in 1700. It opens Corelli's Op. 5 collection, a set of twelve sonatas that became central to violin performance, teaching, and composition across eighteenth-century Europe....

Paul Hindemith's Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 11 No. 2 is a chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1918. Reflecting his experiences as a musician in the German military during World War I, the piece showcases a transition from late Romanticism to his distinct, contrapuntal modernist style. T...

Florence Price's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major is a chamber work for violin and piano by the American composer Florence Beatrice Price. It belongs to a body of music in which Price combined European classical forms with musical ideas shaped by African American traditions. The sonata is intended for...

Joaquín Turina's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 51, composed in 1929, is a work for violin and piano by the Spanish composer who studied in Paris with Vincent d'Indy. Turina, alongside Manuel de Falla and Isaac Albéniz, was part of a generation of Spanish composers who blended Andalusian folk m...

Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata for Solo Violin in D major, Op. 115 is an unaccompanied work completed in 1947, intended primarily for pedagogical use in the Soviet Union. The piece was designed to help advanced students master complex violin techniques such as double stops and diverse bowing articulation...

George Enescu's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 2, is an early chamber composition for violin and piano. Enescu wrote the work in 1897 during his student years, before the Romanian composer developed the mature style associated with his later music. The sonata belongs to the late Romantic repert...

Antonio Vivaldi's Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 2 No. 11, catalogued as RV 9, is a chamber work for solo violin and basso continuo. It belongs to the collection of twelve violin sonatas published as Vivaldi's Opus 2, whose first publication dates to 1709. The piece is therefore an early eighteenth-c...

Max Reger's Violin Sonata number 2 in D major, opus 3 is a four-movement work for violin and piano, composed in 1891 and first published in 1893. Its movements are Allegro non tanto, Scherzoso (Allegretto grazioso), Adagio, and Finale (Allegro, quasi andantino), and a performance lasts about 25 to 2...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Sonata in D major, K. 29, is a chamber work for keyboard and violin composed in The Hague in 1766. It belongs to the group of six early sonatas catalogued as K. 26 through K. 31 and published as a set. The keyboard carries a central musical role, while the violin pro...

The Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, K. 7, is a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for keyboard and violin. Mozart composed it in 1764 during his childhood travels in Europe, and it was published in Paris as part of his Op. 1 collection, a set of early sonatas that helped establish his public reputation...