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SOLO VIOLIN MUSIC

This page features solo violin repertoire and contemporary violin music. It includes unaccompanied violin compositions reflecting composer responses to the October 7th event. This collection presents modern violin pieces with significant themes.

In Memoriam (Yizkor) 

for unaccompanied violin

Duration:

4 minutes
 

Instrumentation:   

violin solo
 

Year Composed:  

2023

​SOLO VIOLIN MUSIC

MUSIC FOR UNACCOMPANIED VIOLIN

THEMES:

REMEMBRANCE

Out of respect for the subject's sensitivity, the sheet music for In Memoriam is provided at no cost.

Program Notes:

In Memoriam (Yizkor) is a work for solo violin (a version for viola is also available) that I wrote following the tragic October 7, 2024, terror attack in Israel and the Gaza war that followed.

Related Music:

Repertoire for Solo Violin (Unaccompanied Violin)

  • Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117, BB 124 (1944) (solo violin)

  • Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984):

  • Sonata for Solo Violin in G, Op. 44 (1951) (solo violin)

  • Three Studies for Violin (1981) (solo violin)

  • Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969):

  • Caprice Polonais (Polish Caprice) (1949) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 (1941) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 (1958) (solo violin)

  • Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Sequenza VIII for Solo Violin (1976) (solo violin)

  • Elliott Carter (1908-2012): Four Lauds (1999-2000) (solo violin)

  • Chen Yi (b. 1953): Fishermen's Song (1988) (solo violin)

  • John Corigliano (b. 1937): The Red Violin Caprices (1997) (solo violin)

  • Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975): Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) (solo violin)

  • Edison Denisov (1929-1996): Sonata for Violin Solo (1978) (solo violin)

  • Brett Dean (b. 1961): Demons (2004) (solo violin)

  • Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964): Incantations (1999) (solo violin)

  • Philip Glass (b. 1937): Partita for Solo Violin (2010/11) (solo violin)

  • Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012): Violin Sonata (1946) (solo violin)

  • Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):

  • Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 1 (1924) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 2 (1924) (solo violin)

  • Nicolaus A. Huber (b. 1939): ...aus Schmerz und Trauer... (1982/83) (solo violin)

  • Isang Yun (1917-1995): Königliches Thema (Royal Theme) (1976) (solo violin)

  • Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023): Frises (2011) (solo violin)

  • Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947): Capricci (1976) (solo violin)

  • Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): A Paganini (1982) (solo violin)

  • Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008): Solo (1971) (solo violin)

  • Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981): Rhapsody No. 1 (2014) (solo violin)

  • Anna Clyne (b. 1980): Rest These Hands (2014) (solo violin)

  • Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): Etudes for Solo Violin (Book I and II) (2004-2013) (solo violin)

  • George Rochberg (1918-2005): Caprice Variations (1970) (solo violin)

  • Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931): Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 (1923) (solo violin)

  • No. 2 "Jacques Thibaud"

  • No. 3 "Georges Enescu" ("Ballade")

  • No. 4 "Fritz Kreisler"

  • No. 6 "Manuel Quiroga"

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