A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

accompaniment. The

Clarinet Sonatas 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 ...

Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with ...

are of special significance in the development of the clarinet repertoire. Several important transcriptions are also possible, including sonatas by Mozart,

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

, Reinecke, Copland, and

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

Clarinet sonatas

:''This list is approximately in chronological order.'' *

François Devienne François Devienne (; 31 January 1759 – 5 September 1803) was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. Career Devienne was born in Joinville, as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker. After receiving ...

: Clarinet sonata no.1 (1798), Clarinet sonata no.2 (1798) *

Ferdinand Ries Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concert ...

: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 29 (1808) *

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his opera ...

: Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48 (1816) * Felix Mendelssohn: Clarinet Sonata (1824) *

Charles Swinnerton Heap Charles Swinnerton Heap (10 April 1847 – 11 June 1900) was an English organist, pianist, composer and conductor. Life Heap was born in Birmingham in 1847 and educated at the town's King Edward VI School, where he studied the organ under Walt ...

: Clarinet Sonata (1879) * Theodore Gouvy: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882) *

Felix Draeseke Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, ...

: Clarinet Sonata (1887), which also can be played by a

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

Josef Rheinberger Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (17 March 1839 – 25 November 1901) was a Liechtensteiner organist and composer, residing in Bavaria for most of his life. Life Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, whose father was the treasurer for Aloys II, Prince of Liech ...

: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 105a (1893) * Johannes Brahms: ** Clarinet Sonata No. 1 and Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (both 1894), which can also be played by a

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

* Max Reger: ** Clarinet Sonata No. 1 (1900) ** Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (1900) ** Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909) *

Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the ...

: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (1912), which can also be played by a

* Camille Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata (1921)Sabina Teller Ratner, "Saint-Saëns, Camille: Works", '' Grove Music Online'', ed. L. Macy (accessed 18 December 2006)
grovemusic.com
(subscription access). *

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

: Sonatina for Clarinet (1927) * John Cage: Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933) *

Arnold Bax Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral musi ...

: Clarinet Sonata (1934) *

Antoni Szalowski Antoni Szałowski (21 April 1907, in Warsaw – 21 March 1973, in Paris) was a Polish composer. In his youth he studied violin but soon became more interested in piano, conducting, and composition. Szałowski studied with Paweł Lewiecki and Kazim ...

: Clarinet Sonatina (1936) *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Ne ...

: Clarinet Sonata (1939) *

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942) *

Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...

: Sonata for Clarinet (Violin) and Piano (1943) *

York Bowen Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a ...

: Clarinet sonata (1943) *

John Ireland John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomin ...

: Fantasy Sonata (1943) *

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op.94 (1943), originally for flute, also arranged for violin *

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128 (1945) *

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

: Sonata in D major for Clarinet and Piano (1945) *

Mieczysław Weinberg Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer and pianist. Names Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28 (1945) *

Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...

: Clarinet Sonata (1946) *

Marga Richter Florence Marga Richter (October 21, 1926 – June 25, 2020) was an American composer of classical music, and pianist. Biography Marga Richter was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, the daughter of the American soprano Inez Chandler (1885–1956) and ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1948) *

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...

: Clarinet Sonatina (1951) * Bohuslav Martinů: Clarinet Sonatina, H. 356 (1956) * Francis Poulenc: **

Sonata for two clarinets The Sonata for two clarinets (''Sonate pour deux clarinettes''), FP 7, is a piece of chamber music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1918. Dedicated to Édouard Souberbielle, its total execution time is about six minutes. It is unusual among clarine ...

, Op. 7 (1918/1945) **

Sonata for clarinet and bassoon The ''Sonate pour clarinette et basson'' (Sonata for clarinet and bassoon), FP 32a, is a piece of chamber music composed by Francis Poulenc in 1922. Composition This sonata is the third work of chamber music of the composer after the sonata for ...

, Op. 32 (1922/1945) ** Clarinet Sonata (1962) *

Carlos Guastavino Carlos Guastavino (5 April 1912 – 29 October 2000) was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. ...

: Clarinet sonata (1970) *

Vyacheslav Artyomov Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov (russian: Вячесла́в Петро́вич Артё́мов, link=no; born on June 29, 1940, in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet Union, Soviet composer. Biography Artyomov was preparing to become a physicist, s ...

: ** Sonata for clarinet solo (1966) ** Confession, clarinet solo (1971) * Jack Cooper: Sonata for Clarinet (1999)''The Clarinet'',

International Clarinet Association The International Clarinet Association is the main international organization bringing together players of the clarinet. It is based in Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Wi ...

, William Nichols review, Dec. 2010, Vol. 38, #1 *

Peter Klatzow Peter James Leonard Klatzow (14 July 1945 – 29 December 2021) was a South African composer and pianist. He was the director of the College of Music and was an emeritus professor in composition at the University of Cape Town. Life and caree ...

: Sonata (2007) *

Octavio Vazquez Octavio is a Spanish language masculine given name. In the Portuguese language the given name Octavio or Octávio is also found, but in Portuguese the normal spelling is Otávio. It is also used as a surname in the Philippines. Individuals * Octa ...

: Clarinet Sonata (2009) *

Dieter Lehnhoff Dieter Lehnhoff Temme (born 27 May 1955) is a German-Guatemalan composer, conductor, and musicologist. Life Dieter Lehnhoff Temme was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to German settlers in 1955. He has been a pupil of Klaus Ager, Gerhard Wim ...

: Sonata Urbana for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 (2010) * Jennifer Higdon: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (2011) *

Hendrik Hofmeyr Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr (born 20 November 1957) is a South African composer. Born in Cape Town, he furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector. While there, he won the South African Opera C ...

: Clarinet Sonata (2013) *

Bruno Vlahek Bruno Vlahek (born 11 February 1986 in Zagreb) is a Croatian pianist and composer. Vlahek started his musical education at the age of nine in his hometown. Immediately recognized as a specially gifted child, he entered class of Vladimir Krpan a ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 42 (2015) *

David Conte David Conte (born 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guita ...

: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2019)

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