- Title
- Sonata for Violin and Piano
- For
- violin and piano
- Year Composed
- 1942–43
- ARCO Number(s)
- 52
- Category
- Chamber
- Duration
- 17'
- Premiere
- World: New York, January 17th, 1944 (Ruth Posselt, Copland)
- Dedication
- To Lieutenant Harry H. Dunham
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published
- Versions
- Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1980) (Arrangement)
- Arrangements
- Sonata for Violin and Orchestra (arr. Gerald Elias)
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Program Note
Composer David Diamond recalls playing the Sonata for violin and piano with the composer in Copland's New York loft at the time of the work's composition. Diamond said, "I advised him to use harmonics in the last movement." The Sonata is in the usual three movements, the last two to be played without pause. Following the premiere in 1944 for which Copland was pianist, Virgil Thomson called the Sonata "one of its author's most satisfying pieces. It has a quality at once of calm elevation and of buoyancy that is characteristic of Copland and irresistibly touching."
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998