Some violin sonatas, notably those by Mozart , Beethoven , and César Franck , are primarily piano works with the violin playing a lesser role.
- Lera Auerbach
- ---Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Sikorski)
- ---Sonata No. 2 "September 11" for violin and piano (Sikorski)
- Johann Christian Bach
- --- nine (opus 10 and opus 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin
- Johannes Brahms
- ---(sonata scherzo in C minor, for the F-A-E sonata collaborative sonata undertaken by Dietrich, Schumann and Brahms - 1853)
- ---(early A minor sonata, lost, reported by Remenyi)
- ---violin sonata #1 in G, ''Rain Sonata'' op. 78, 1878–9
- ---violin sonata #2 in A, ''Thun'' op. 100, 1886
- ---violin sonata #3 in D minor, op. 108, 1886–8
- George Enescu
- ---violin sonata fragment ''Torso''
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 2 in D
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 6 in F minor
- ---violin sonata #3 ''on Popular Romanian themes'' op. 25 in A minor
- Gabriel Fauré
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 13 in A
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 108 in E minor
- Edvard Grieg
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 8 in F
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 13 in G
- ---violin sonata #3 op. 45 in C minor
- Vagn Holmboe
- ---violin sonata #1, M. 82, 1935
- ---violin sonata #2, M. 112, 1939
- ---violin sonata #3, M. 227, 1965
- Ernst Krenek
- ---violin sonata in F-sharp
- ---two sonatas for solo violin
- Nikolai Medtner
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 21 in B minor
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 44 in G
- ---violin sonata #3 ''Epic'' op. 57 in E minor
- Felix Mendelssohn
- ---violin sonata in F
- ---violin sonata op. 4 in F minor
- ---violin sonata in F, 1838
- Darius Milhaud
- ---at least two violin sonatas with piano, and one with harpsichord
- Carl Nielsen
- ---early sonatas
- ---violin sonata op. 9 in A
- ---violin sonata op. 35 in G minor/C
- Sergei Prokofiev
- ---sonata for two violins op. 56 in C
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 80 in F minor
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 94 in D (transcribed from flute sonata)
- ---sonata op. 115 for solo violin in D (also can be played by massed unison ensemble.)
- Joachim Raff
- ---five violin sonatas (op. 73 in E minor, op. 78 in A, op. 128 in D, op. 129 in one movement in G minor ''Chromatische'' and op. 145 in C minor)
- Max Reger
- ---9 violin sonatas with piano, several unaccompanied (four in op 42, seven in op 91)
--violin sonata #1 op. 1 in D minor
--violin sonata #2 op. 3 in D
--violin sonata #3 op. 41 in A
--violin sonata #4 op. 72 in C (gave rise to a scandal at its premiere with a work by Ludwig Thuille )
--violin sonata #5 op. 84 in F-sharp minor
--violin sonata #6 op. 103b/1 in D minor
--violin sonata #7 op. 103b/2 in A
--violin sonata #8 op. 122 in E minor
--violin sonata #9 op. 139 in C minor
--(violin version of the clarinet sonata op. 107 in B-flat sometimes included, and the sonatas op. 103b are sometimes not.)
- Josef Rheinberger
- ---violin sonata op. 77 in E-flat (1874)
- ---violin sonata op. 105 in E minor (1877)
- Albert Roussel
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 11 in D minor
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 28 in A
- Edmund Rubbra
- ---violin sonata #1 op. 11 (1925)
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 31 (1931)
- ---violin sonata #3 op. 133 (premiered 1968)
- Anton Rubinstein
- ---violin sonata op. 13 in G
- ---violin sonata op. 19 in A minor
- ---violin sonata op. 98 in B minor
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- ---violin sonata op. 75 in D minor (1885)
- ---violin sonata op. 102 in E flat (1896)
- Othmar Schoeck
- ---violin sonata op. 16
- ---violin sonata op. 46
- ---violin sonata WoO 22 (information from a recent Claves CD release informational listing {Link without Title} )
- Franz Schubert
- ---violin sonatinas in D, A minor, G minor
- ---violin sonata in A
- Robert Schumann
- --- Violin Sonata #1 op. 105 in A minor (1851)
- ---violin sonata #2 op. 121 in D minor (1851)
- ---collaboration with Brahms and Albert Dietrich in F-A-E sonata for Joseph Joachim (1853)
- ---violin sonata #3 in A minor — third and fourth movements from the F-A-E sonata (1853)
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