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Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor, L. 140 is a significant work of modern French music composed around 1900. It showcases Debussy's innovative harmonic language and impressionistic style, departing from traditional Romantic violin sonatas. The piece explores subtle textures and colors, prior...

Giuditta is an operetta by Franz Lehár, completed in 1934 and marking his final significant stage production. The work premiered at Vienna’s State Opera featuring renowned performers Jarmila Novotná and Richard Tauber. It's notable for its Viennese style, romantic storyline based on the biblical tal...

Mozart’s Violin Sonata in A major, K. 526 represents a significant work within his late classical style. Composed in Vienna during 1787, it showcases the composer's melodic genius and technical skill for both violin and piano. The sonata is notable as one of Mozart’s most beloved pieces from that ye...

Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor, composed in 1917, represents his final substantial work. This late piece is notable for its innovative harmonic language and evocative textures characteristic of Impressionist music. It showcases a mature exploration of color and atmosphere within the viol...

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96, is a significant work from his late period. Composed around 1816 and dedicated to violinist Pierre Rode, the sonata showcases a mature and deeply expressive style. It's notable for its lyrical melodies and balanced interplay between violin and pia...

Bohuslav Martinů’s Symphony No. 6, “Fantaisies Symphoniques,” is a significant late-period composition from 1953. This Czech work showcases Martinů's distinctive style blending tonal clarity with modernist experimentation. The piece’s evocative textures and imaginative orchestration make it notable...

Schubert's Fantasy in C major for Violin and Piano, Op. 159 (D. 934, 1827) is a virtuosic, large-scale single-movement work built on his song 'Sei mir gegrüsst,' composed in the final year of his life.

Shostakovich's Violin Sonata, Op. 134 (1968) was composed for and dedicated to violinist David Oistrakh on his 60th birthday, employing a twelve-tone theme within the composer's characteristically tonal language.

Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108, is a chamber work by Gabriel Fauré composed in 1916 and 1917, placing it among his late-period compositions. The sonata is structured in three movements rather than the conventional four and exhibits the modal harmonic language, spare textures, and restrained...

Mieczysław Weinberg's Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, Op. 126, is an unaccompanied violin work composed in 1979 during the Polish-born Soviet composer's later period. Written for a single player without piano or orchestral support, it places the instrument's melodic, harmonic, and textural resources a...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 is the last of his four piano concertos, composed in 1926 and premiered in 1927 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, with Rachmaninoff as soloist. The concerto underwent two major revisions by the composer, with the fi...

Robert Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121, is a four-movement chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1851. Broader in scale than his First Violin Sonata, it opens with a slow introduction followed by a forceful sonata-form movement. The work includes a scherzo, a set of variat...

Symphony No. 7, subtitled Epilogue, is a 1986 orchestral work by Georgian composer Giya Kancheli and the final piece in his sequence of seven numbered symphonies. Like much of his mature music, it juxtaposes extended quiet passages with sudden, forceful eruptions, using sparse textures and sharp dyn...

Einojuhani Rautavaara's Symphony No. 8, subtitled 'The Journey,' is a late work by the Finnish composer, completed in 1999. Rautavaara composed eight symphonies across his career, with this work belonging to his mature period. The symphony reflects Rautavaara's characteristic blend of modernist tech...

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Violin Sonata No. 6 is a 1982 work for violin and piano, often listed as Op. 136bis among the Polish-Soviet composer's late works.

Gabriel Fauré's Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108 is a late-career chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1916. The piece was dedicated to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, an accomplished violinist and patron of the arts, and received its public premiere in 1917. Unlike his earlier sonata, t...

Michael Tippett's Symphony No. 4 is a single-movement orchestral work completed in 1977. Commissioned for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the symphony is structurally notable for its continuous flow and the unusual incorporation of human breathing sounds played by the wind instruments. It represents...

Ferruccio Busoni composed his Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a in 1898. An Italian composer and pianist, Busoni wrote this structurally complex chamber work during his late Romantic period. The sonata is scored for violin and piano, featuring a demanding piano part that reflects the composer'...

Krzysztof Penderecki's Violin Sonata No. 2 is a late-period chamber work for violin and piano, composed in 1999 by the renowned Polish composer. The piece reflects Penderecki's stylistic transition away from his earlier avant-garde dissonance toward a highly romantic and traditional syntax. Dedicate...

Alfred Schnittke's Violin Sonata No. 3 is a late chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1994 during the final year of the Russian composer's life. Written for the violinist Oleh Krysa, the piece stands in stark contrast to the dense polystylistic collages of his earlier period. Instead, it fe...

Alfred Schnittke's Violin Sonata No. 3 is a late chamber work for violin and piano composed in 1994 during the final year of the Russian composer's life. Written for the violinist Oleh Krysa, the piece stands in stark contrast to the dense polystylistic collages of his earlier period. Instead, it fe...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Violin Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 102, in 1896, during the later part of his career. Written for violin and piano, it belongs to the French Romantic chamber-music repertoire and is generally more lyrical and expansive than his First Violin Sonata. Its substant...

Max Reger composed this elegiac violin sonata in 1904, notable for its concise structure, clear neo-classical tendencies, and a distinctly lyrical shift away from his earlier density.

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Violin Sonata No. 6, Op. 136 is a late work for unaccompanied violin composed in 1982. It is the last of his six numbered solo violin sonatas, not a sonata for violin and piano, and belongs to a substantial body of chamber and instrumental music shaped by his Soviet career. The...

Mieczysław Weinberg's Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, Op. 126, was composed in 1979 by the Polish-born Soviet composer. Weinberg, a close associate of Dmitri Shostakovich, wrote over 150 works across diverse genres, including multiple sonatas for solo instruments. This sonata for unaccompanied violin...

The Violin Sonata No. 3 by British composer Arnold Bax, completed in 1927, is celebrated for its sweeping melodies, complex textures, and late-Romantic aesthetic.

As the final violin sonata composed by Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg, this late 20th-century work is notable for its sparse, reflective texture and profound harmonic ambiguity.

A 1922 American operetta by Victor Herbert, notable for its Broadway production and for featuring the enduringly popular song A Kiss in the Dark.

Completed in 1885, Niels Gade's Violin Sonata No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 59, stands as the mature final contribution to the genre by the prominent Danish Romantic composer.