Violin Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major is a violin sonata from his Op. 12 set, along with his Violin Sonata No. 2 and Violin Sonata No. 3. It was written in 1798 and dedicated to Antonio Salieri. Being an early work written around the period when Beethoven studied with Haydn, the sonata is for the most part written in a classical style much like that of Mozart or Haydn.

It has three movements:

1. Allegro con brio
2. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto
3. Rondo: Allegro

A typical performance lasts approximately 20 minutes.

Recordings

• Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
• Itzhak Perlman (violin), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
• Kristóf Baráti (violin), Kiára Würtz (piano)
• Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Enrico Pace (piano)
• Pamela Frank (violin), Claude Frank (piano)
• David Oistrakh (violin), Lev Oborin (piano)
• Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emmanuel Bay (piano)

External links

• Violin Sonata No. 1: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Performance of Violin Sonata No. 1 by Corey Cerovsek (violin) and Paavali Jumppanen (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
• List of works by Beethoven with dates, keys and internal movement keys including for example that for opus 12/2.
• Brandenburg, Sieghard (2004). "1. Beethoven's Opus 12 Violin Sonatas: On the path to his personal style.". In Kroll, Mark; Lewis, Lockwood (eds.). The Beethoven Violin Sonatas: History, Criticism, Performance. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02932-1.
• Heeney, Eimear (2007). Beethoven's Works for Violin and Piano (PDF) (M.A.). Waterford Institute of Technology.