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The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:

• in the Baroque era, there were many works written for the viola da gamba, including sonatas (the most famous being Johann Sebastian Bach's three, now most often played on the cello)
• in the Classical era and early Romantic, there were few works written with viola specifically in mind as solo instrument; it was more typical to publish a work or set, like Georges Onslow's opus 16 cello sonatas, or Johannes Brahms's opus 120 clarinet sonatas in the late 19th century, that specified the viola as an alternate.
  • The Brahms may be the first repertory sonatas for the instrument, alternates with an independent life and a performance history.

See also

• Bassoon sonata
• Cello sonata
• Clarinet sonata
• Piano sonata
• Violin sonata

External links

• Review of Concert with Arnold Viola Sonata
• The history of Draeseke's Viola Alta Sonatas
• A Mendelssohn Chamber Worklist with Dates
• Schott's page for Nino Rota
• A Viola Sonata Repertoire Page
• And another repertoire page with dates
• Primrose Festival (information with dates also)