Clarinet sonata

Template:Short description A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.

The Two Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance in the development of the clarinet repertoire. Several important transcriptions are also possible, including sonatas by Mozart, Schubert, Reinecke, Copland, and Prokofiev.

Clarinet sonatas

This list is approximately in chronological order.

• François Devienne: Clarinet sonata no.1 (1798), Clarinet sonata no.2 (1798)
• Ferdinand Ries: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 29 (1808)
• Carl Maria von Weber: Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48 (1816)
• Felix Mendelssohn: Clarinet Sonata (1824)
• Alice Mary Smith: Clarinet Sonata (1870)<ref>'Alice Mary Smith', Clarinet Music by Women</ref>
• Charles Swinnerton Heap: Clarinet Sonata (1879)<ref>Lazaras Edition</ref>
• Theodore Gouvy: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882)
• Ebenezer Prout: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 26 (1882)<ref>Recorded by Colin Bradbury and Oliver Davies on The Victorian Clarinet Tradition, Clarinet Classics CC0022 (1997)</ref>
• Felix Draeseke: Clarinet Sonata (1887), which also can be played by a violin
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Sonata (c1893)<ref>Jane Elizabeth Ellsworth. Clarinet Music by British Composers, 1800-1914 (1991), p. 201</ref>
• Josef Rheinberger:Clarinet Sonata, Op. 105a (1893)
• Johannes Brahms:
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 1 (1894)
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (1894)
• William Henry Hadow: Clarinet Sonata (1897)<ref name=forgot>Spencer Pitfield. British Sonatas by Hadow, Bell, Linstead and Fiske: Rediscovering a Forgotten Repertory, International Clarinet Association talk (2000)</ref>
• Max Reger:
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 1 (1900)
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (1900)
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909)
• Donald Francis Tovey: Clarinet Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 16 (1906)<ref name=ene>England - New England, Romantic Clarinet Sonatas, BML 002 (2001)</ref>
• Charles Villiers Stanford: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (1912), which can also be played by a viola
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata (1921)<ref>Sabina Teller Ratner, "Saint-Saëns, Camille: Works", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 18 December 2006), grovemusic.com Template:Webarchive (subscription access).</ref>
• William Henry Bell: Clarinet Sonata in D minor (1926)<ref name=forgot/>
• Darius Milhaud: Sonatina for Clarinet (1927)
• George Frederick Linstead: Clarinet Sonata (1932?)<ref name=forgot/>
• John Cage: Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933)
• Arnold Bax:
  • Clarinet Sonata in E major (1901)
  • Clarinet Sonata in D major (1934)<ref>'Bax, Clarinet Sonatas', Naxos 8557698 (2006)</ref>
• Antoni Szalowski: Clarinet Sonatina (1936)
• Mary Lucas: Clarinet Sonata (1938)<ref>Pitfield, Spenser Simpson. British Music for Clarinet and Piano: 1880-1945 (Ph.D, University of Sheffield (2000), p 96</ref>
• Paul Hindemith: Clarinet Sonata (1939)
• Roger Fiske: Clarinet Sonata (1941)<ref>The Thurston Connection - English Music for Clarinet and Piano, Naxos 8.571357 (2015)</ref>
• Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
• Aaron Copland: Sonata for Clarinet (Violin) and Piano (1943)
• York Bowen: Clarinet Sonata (1943)<ref name=ene/>
• John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata (1943)<ref name=chan>British Clarinet Sonatas, Chandos CHAN 0704 (2012)</ref>
• Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op.94 (1943), originally for flute, also arranged for violin
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128 (1945)
• Nino Rota: Sonata in D major for Clarinet and Piano (1945)
• Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28 (1945)
• Herbert Howells: Clarinet Sonata (1946)<ref name=chan/>
• Marga Richter: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1948)
• Christopher Shaw: Clarinet Sonata (1949)<ref>British Music Collection: Shaw</ref>
• Malcolm Arnold: Clarinet Sonatina (1951)<ref>Musicroom listing</ref>
• Roger Fiske: Clarinet Sonatina (1951)<ref>The Thurston Connection - English Music for Clarinet and Piano, Naxos 8.571357 (2015)</ref>
• Pamela Harrison: Clarinet Sonata (1954)
• Iain Hamilton: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 22 (1955) <ref>Music for Clarinet and Piano, Naxos 9.70211 (2013)</ref>
• Ruth Gipps: Clarinet Sonata (1956)<ref>Dedication: The clarinet chamber music of Ruth Gipps, SOMM 0641 (2021)</ref>
• Bohuslav Martinů: Clarinet Sonatina, H. 356 (1956)
• Peter Maxwell Davies: Clarinet Sonata (1956)<ref>Boosey.com</ref>
• Arnold Cooke: Clarinet Sonata in B flat (1959)<ref>Bax Sonata, musicroom.com</ref>
• Francis Poulenc:
  • Sonata for two clarinets, Op. 7 (1918/1945)
  • Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, Op. 32 (1922/1945)
  • Clarinet Sonata (1962)
• Alun Hoddinott: Clarinet Sonata (1967)<ref>British Music Collection: Hoddinott</ref>
• Carlos Guastavino : Clarinet sonata (1970)
• Vyacheslav Artyomov:
  • Sonata for clarinet solo (1966)
  • Confession, clarinet solo (1971)
• Derek Bourgeois: Clarinet Sonata (1975)<ref>British Music Collection: Bourgeois</ref>
• Timothy Salter: Clarinet Sonata (1976)<ref>British Music Collection: Salter</ref>
• Antony Roper (1921–2013): Clarinet Sonata (1979)<ref>British Music Collection: Roper</ref>
• Joseph Horovitz: Clarinet Sonatina (1981)<ref>Wise Music Classical</ref>
• Graham Whettam: Clarinet Sonata (1988)<ref>British Music Collection: Whettam</ref>
• Gary Carpenter: Clarinet Sonata (1991)<ref>British Music Collection: Carpenter</ref>
• Adam Gorb: Clarinet Sonata (1991)<ref>Composer's website</ref>
• Marcus Blunt: Clarinet Sonata (1991)<ref>British Music Collection: Blunt</ref>
• Jack Cooper: Sonata for Clarinet (1999)<ref name=WNICH>The Clarinet, International Clarinet Association, William Nichols review, Dec. 2010, Vol. 38, #1</ref>
• Michael Finnissy: Clarinet Sonata (2007)<ref>WAM - music for clarinet by Michael Finnissy, New Focus FCR157 (2016)</ref>
• Peter Klatzow: Sonata (2007)
• Octavio Vazquez: Clarinet Sonata (2009)
• Dieter Lehnhoff: Sonata Urbana for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 (2010)
• Jennifer Higdon: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (2011)
• Hendrik Hofmeyr: Clarinet Sonata (2013)
• Bruno Vlahek: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 42 (2015)
• David Conte: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2019)
• Jerzy Fryderyk Wojciechowski: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op. 15 (2023)

Further reading

• Burnet C. Tuthill, "Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano: Annotated Listings", Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 20, No. 3. (Autumn, 1972), pp. 308–328.