A flute sonata is a
sonata usually for
flute and
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 keybo ...
, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the
Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of
basso continuo.
List of flute sonatas
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George Antheil
George Johann Carl Antheil (; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of t ...
**Sonata for flute and piano (1951)
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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 ...
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op.121 (1977)
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Claude Arrieu
Louise-Marie Simon (30 November 1903 – 7 March 1990), pen name Claude Arrieu, was a prolific French composer. She wrote hundreds of works in varying formats, including stage works, concert works, and movie scores. She was also a teacher, and ...
**Sonatina for flute and piano (1944)
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...
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Sonata in A minor for solo flute (H. (Helm) 562/Wq. (Wotquenne) 132) (1747)
**14 sonatas for flute and continuo
**Sonata in G minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1020
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Sonata in E-flat major for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1031
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Sonata in C major for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1033
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Johann Christian Bach
**Sonatas for keyboard with flute or violin, Op. 16
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
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Sonata in B minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030
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Sonata in A major for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1032
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Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034
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Sonata in E major for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1035
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Nicolas Bacri
Nicolas Bacri (born 23 November 1961) is a French composer. He has written works that include seven symphonies, eleven string quartets, eight cantatas, two one-act operas, three piano sonatas, two cello and piano sonatas, four violin and piano ...
**Spring Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 147 (2018)
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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 ...
**Sonata for flute and harp (1928)
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Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
Biography
Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
**Sonata for flute and piano (1978)
*Ludwig van Beethoven (attributed)
**Flute Sonata in B-flat major (attrib. Beethoven), Flute Sonata in B-flat major, Anh. 4
*Flint Juventino Beppe
**Flute Sonata No. 1 Op. 40 (1998)
*Mélanie Bonis
**Flute Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 (1904)
*Pierre Boulez
**Sonatina for flute and piano (1946) (1 serialism, serial movement)
*York Bowen
**Flute Sonata, Op. 120 (1946)
*Robert J. Bradshaw
**Sonata No. 2 In My Collection for flute and piano
*Jean Coulthard
**Lyric Sonatina for flute and piano (1971)
*Edison Denisov
**Sonata for flute and piano (1960)
**Sonata for flute and guitar (1977)
**Sonata for flute solo (1982)
**Sonata for flute and harp (1983)
*Pierre Max Dubois
**Sonata for flute and piano
*Henri Dutilleux
**Sonatina for flute and piano (1943)
*Jindřich Feld
**Sonata for flute and piano (1957)
*César Franck
**Violin Sonata (Franck), Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major (transcribed for flute) (1886)
*Frederick the Great
**121 sonatas for flute and continuo
*Glenn Gould
**Sonata for Flute and Piano (1950). (This work is an arrangement of Gould's Sonata for Bassoon and Piano).
*George Frideric Handel
**Flute sonata in E minor (HWV 359b), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in E minor, HWV 359b
**Flute sonata in G major (HWV 363b), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in G major, HWV 363b
**Flute sonata in B minor (HWV 367b), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in B minor, HWV 367b
**Flute sonata in A minor (HWV 374), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in A minor, HWV 374, ''Halle sonata No. 1'' (authenticity uncertain)
**Flute sonata in E minor (HWV 375), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in E minor, HWV 375, ''Halle sonata No. 2'' (authenticity uncertain)
**Flute sonata in B minor (HWV 376), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in B minor, HWV 376, ''Halle sonata No. 3'' (authenticity uncertain)
**Flute sonata in D major (HWV 378), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in D major, HWV 378
**Flute sonata in E minor (HWV 379), Sonata for flute and basso continuo in E minor, HWV 379
*Hans Werner Henze
**Sonatina for flute and piano (1947)
*Paul Hindemith
**Sonata for flute and piano (1936)
*Bertold Hummel
**Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 107a (2001
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
**Sonata in D, Op. 50 (c1810–14)
**Sonata in A, Op. 64 (c1814–15)
*Philipp Jarnach
**Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 12 (1919)
*Sándor Jemnitz
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 27 (1930–31)
*Paul Juon
**Sonata for flute and piano in F, Op. 78 (1924)
*Sigfrid Karg-Elert
**Sonata for flute and piano in B flat, Op. 121 (1918)
**''Sonata Appassionata'' for flute solo in F sharp, Op. 140 (1917)
*Charles Koechlin
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 52 (1911–13)
**Sonata for 2 flutes, Op. 75 (1918–20)
**Three sonatines for solo flute, Op. 184 (1942)
*Rachel Laurin
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 29 (1995)
*Jean-Marie Leclair
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.1 in B major, Book 1, No.2
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.2 in E minor, Book 1, No.6
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.3 in E minor, Book 2, No. 1
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.4 in C major, Book 2, No. 3
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.5 in G major, Book 2, No. 5
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.6 in B minor, Book 2, No. 11
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.7 in E minor, Book 4, No. 2
**Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.8 in G major, Book 4, No. 7
*Dieter Lehnhoff
**Sonata Porteña for flute and piano, Op. 35 (2013)
*Bohuslav Martinů
**Flute Sonata (Martinů), Sonata for flute and piano, Halbreich 306 (1945)
*Peter Mieg
**Sonata for flute and piano (1963)
*Darius Milhaud
**Sonatina for flute and piano, Op. 76 (1922)
*Ignaz Moscheles
**Sonata for flute and piano in A, Op. 44 (1819)
**Sonata for flute and piano in G, Op. 79 (1828)
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
**Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in B flat, K. 10, Sonata in B-flat for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 10
**Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in G, K. 11, Sonata in G for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 11
** Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in A, K. 12, Sonata in A for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 12
**Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in F, K. 13, Sonata in F for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 13
**Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in C, K. 14, Sonata in C for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 14
**Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 (Mozart)#Sonata in B flat, K. 15, Sonata in B-flat for keyboard with flute (or violin) and cello, K. 15
*Jules Mouquet
**''La Flûte de Pan'', Sonata, Op. 15
*Robert Muczynski
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 14 (1961)
*Gabriel Pierné
**Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 36 (1900)
*Willem Pijper
**Sonata for flute and piano (1925)
*Walter Piston
**Sonata for flute and piano (1930)
*Francis Poulenc
**Flute Sonata (Poulenc), Flute Sonata, Schmidt 164 (1956–7)
*Sergei Prokofiev
**Flute Sonata (Prokofiev), Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94 (1943)
*Einojuhani Rautavaara
**Sonata for flute and guitar (1975)
*Carl Reinecke
**Sonata Undine, ''Undine'', Flute Sonata, Op. 167 (1882)
*Ferdinand Ries
**Flute Sonata in G major, Op. 48 (pub. 1815)
**Divertimento for Piano and Flute in G major, Op.62 (1815, pub. 1819)
**Flute Sonata in C major, Op. 76, No. 1 (1816, pub. ca 1817/18)
**Flute Sonata in G major, Op. 76, No. 2 (1817, pub. ca 1817/18)
**Flute Sonata No. 4 (Ries), Flute Sonata in G major, Op. 87 (pub. 1819)
**Flute Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 169 ''Sonate sentimentale'' (1814, pub. 1834)
*Nino Rota
**Sonata for flute and harp (1937)
*R. Murray Schafer
**Sonatina for flute and harpsichord (or piano) (1976)
*Erwin Schulhoff
**Sonata for flute and piano (1927)
*Leo Smit (Dutch composer), Leo Smit
**Sonata for flute and piano (1939–43)
*Otar Taktakishvili
**Sonata for flute and piano (1968)
*Grace Williams
**Sonatina for flute and piano (1931)
See also
*Flute concerto
*Flute repertory
References
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