Clarinet sonata
Musical composition for clarinet
A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet , often with piano accompaniment.
The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance in the development of the clarinet repertoire. Several important transcriptions are also possible, including sonatas by Mozart , Schubert , Reinecke , Copland , and Prokofiev .
Clarinet sonatas
This list is approximately in chronological order.
François Devienne : Clarinet sonata no.1 (1798), Clarinet sonata no.2 (1798)
Ferdinand Ries : Clarinet Sonata , Op. 29 (1808)
Carl Maria von Weber : Grand Duo Concertant , Op. 48 (1816)
Felix Mendelssohn : Clarinet Sonata (1824)
Alice Mary Smith : Clarinet Sonata (1870)[ 1]
Charles Swinnerton Heap : Clarinet Sonata (1879)[ 2]
Theodore Gouvy : Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882)
Ebenezer Prout : Clarinet Sonata, Op. 26 (1882)[ 3]
Felix Draeseke : Clarinet Sonata (1887), which also can be played by a violin
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor : Clarinet Sonata (c1893)[ 4]
Josef Rheinberger :Clarinet Sonata, Op. 105a (1893)
Johannes Brahms :
William Henry Hadow : Clarinet Sonata (1897)[ 5]
Max Reger :
Clarinet Sonata No. 1 (1900)
Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (1900)
Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909)
Donald Francis Tovey : Clarinet Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 16 (1906)[ 6]
Charles Villiers Stanford : Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (1912), which can also be played by a viola
Camille Saint-Saëns : Clarinet Sonata (1921)[ 7]
William Henry Bell : Clarinet Sonata in D minor (1926)[ 5]
Darius Milhaud : Sonatina for Clarinet (1927)
George Frederick Linstead : Clarinet Sonata (1932?)[ 5]
John Cage : Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933)
Arnold Bax :
Clarinet Sonata in E major (1901)
Clarinet Sonata in D major (1934)[ 8]
Antoni Szalowski : Clarinet Sonatina (1936)
Mary Lucas : Clarinet Sonata (1938)[ 9]
Paul Hindemith : Clarinet Sonata (1939)
Roger Fiske : Clarinet Sonata (1941)[ 10]
Leonard Bernstein : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
Aaron Copland : Sonata for Clarinet (Violin) and Piano (1943)
York Bowen : Clarinet Sonata (1943)[ 6]
John Ireland : Fantasy Sonata (1943)[ 11]
Sergei Prokofiev : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op.94 (1943), originally for flute, also arranged for violin
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128 (1945)
Nino Rota : Sonata in D major for Clarinet and Piano (1945)
Mieczysław Weinberg : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28 (1945)
Herbert Howells : Clarinet Sonata (1946)[ 11]
Marga Richter : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1948)
Christopher Shaw : Clarinet Sonata (1949)[ 12]
Malcolm Arnold : Clarinet Sonatina (1951)[ 13]
Roger Fiske: Clarinet Sonatina (1951)[ 14]
Pamela Harrison : Clarinet Sonata (1954)
Iain Hamilton : Clarinet Sonata, Op. 22 (1955) [ 15]
Ruth Gipps : Clarinet Sonata (1956)[ 16]
Bohuslav Martinů : Clarinet Sonatina , H. 356 (1956)
Peter Maxwell Davies : Clarinet Sonata (1956)[ 17]
Arnold Cooke : Clarinet Sonata in B flat (1959)[ 18]
Francis Poulenc :
Alun Hoddinott : Clarinet Sonata (1967)[ 19]
Carlos Guastavino : Clarinet sonata (1970)
Vyacheslav Artyomov :
Sonata for clarinet solo (1966)
Confession , clarinet solo (1971)
Derek Bourgeois : Clarinet Sonata (1975)[ 20]
Timothy Salter : Clarinet Sonata (1976)[ 21]
Antony Roper (1921–2013): Clarinet Sonata (1979)[ 22]
Joseph Horovitz : Clarinet Sonatina (1981)[ 23]
Graham Whettam : Clarinet Sonata (1988)[ 24]
Gary Carpenter : Clarinet Sonata (1991)[ 25]
Adam Gorb: Clarinet Sonata (1991)[ 26]
Marcus Blunt : Clarinet Sonata (1991)[ 27]
Jack Cooper : Sonata for Clarinet (1999)[ 28]
Michael Finnissy : Clarinet Sonata (2007)[ 29]
Peter Klatzow : Sonata (2007)
Octavio Vazquez : Clarinet Sonata (2009)
Dieter Lehnhoff : Sonata Urbana for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 (2010)
Jennifer Higdon : Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (2011)
Hendrik Hofmeyr : Clarinet Sonata (2013)
Bruno Vlahek : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 42 (2015)
David Conte : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2019)
Jerzy Fryderyk Wojciechowski: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2023)
Notes
^ 'Alice Mary Smith', Clarinet Music by Women
^ Lazaras Edition
^ Recorded by Colin Bradbury and Oliver Davies on The Victorian Clarinet Tradition , Clarinet Classics CC0022 (1997)
^ Jane Elizabeth Ellsworth. Clarinet Music by British Composers, 1800-1914 (1991), p. 201
^ a b c Spencer Pitfield. British Sonatas by Hadow, Bell, Linstead and Fiske: Rediscovering a Forgotten Repertory , International Clarinet Association talk (2000)
^ a b England - New England, Romantic Clarinet Sonatas , BML 002 (2001)
^ Sabina Teller Ratner, "Saint-Saëns, Camille: Works", Grove Music Online , ed. L. Macy (accessed 18 December 2006), grovemusic.com Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine (subscription access).
^ 'Bax, Clarinet Sonatas', Naxos 8557698 (2006)
^ Pitfield, Spenser Simpson. British Music for Clarinet and Piano: 1880-1945 (Ph.D, University of Sheffield (2000), p 96
^ The Thurston Connection - English Music for Clarinet and Piano , Naxos 8.571357 (2015)
^ a b British Clarinet Sonatas , Chandos CHAN 0704 (2012)
^ British Music Collection: Shaw
^ Musicroom listing
^ The Thurston Connection - English Music for Clarinet and Piano , Naxos 8.571357 (2015)
^ Music for Clarinet and Piano , Naxos 9.70211 (2013)
^ Dedication: The clarinet chamber music of Ruth Gipps , SOMM 0641 (2021)
^ Boosey.com
^ Bax Sonata, musicroom.com
^ British Music Collection: Hoddinott
^ British Music Collection: Bourgeois
^ British Music Collection: Salter
^ British Music Collection: Roper
^ Wise Music Classical
^ British Music Collection: Whettam
^ British Music Collection: Carpenter
^ Composer's website
^ British Music Collection: Blunt
^ The Clarinet , International Clarinet Association , William Nichols review, Dec. 2010, Vol. 38, #1
^ WAM - music for clarinet by Michael Finnissy , New Focus FCR157 (2016)
Further reading
Burnet C. Tuthill , "Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano: Annotated Listings", Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Autumn, 1972), pp. 308–328.
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