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The Gabriel Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 is a significant Romantic-era composition from 1875-76. This work, premiered in Paris in 1877, solidified Fauré’s reputation as a leading French composer. The sonata showcases lyrical melodies and sophisticated harmonies, making it suitable fo...

Johannes Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100, represents a pinnacle of Romantic era composition. Completed in 1886 during a retreat at Lake Thun, it is considered one of his finest violin sonatas alongside the others written around this period. The work showcases profound musical dialog...

The Prelude in A major, BWV 864, is the nineteenth prelude in Book I of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, compiled around 1722. It is paired with a fugue in the same key and serves as one of the 24 prelude-and-fugue pairs that traverse all major and minor keys in the collection. The...

Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 5 No. 9 is a Baroque work for violin and basso continuo, published in Rome in 1700 as part of his twelve Op. 5 sonatas. The set was widely disseminated across Europe and became a foundational model for late Baroque violin technique and style. The A m...

The Violin Sonata in A major, HWV 361, is a chamber work by the German-British Baroque composer George Frideric Handel. Preserved in an autograph manuscript dating from approximately 1725 to 1726, the piece is structured as a four-movement sonata for violin and continuo. It follows a slow-fast-slow-...

The Prelude in A major, Op. 32, No. 9 is a solo piano piece composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1910. It is part of his Opus 32 set of thirteen preludes, which together with his earlier preludes cover all 24 major and minor keys. This particular prelude is characterized by its lyrical, expansive melo...

Prelude in A major, Op. 11 No. 7 is a short piano piece by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, completed in 1896 as part of his collection of 24 preludes, Op. 11. The collection was influenced by Chopin's Preludes, Op. 28, and similarly spans all major and minor keys. The A major prelude features c...

Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 5 No. 6, is a Baroque chamber work for violin and basso continuo, published in Rome in 1700. It belongs to Corelli's set of twelve Op. 5 sonatas, a collection that circulated widely and influenced violin playing and composition across Europe. The pie...

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 34, for solo piano in 1932–33, completing the set at age 26. The seventh prelude, in A major, is one of the shorter, more lyrical entries in a cycle that traverses all major and minor keys. Shostakovich premiered the complete cycle himself,...

Albert Roussel completed his Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 53 in 1935 as his final contribution to the symphonic form. Written in neo-classical style, the work balances formal clarity with colorful orchestration characteristic of Roussel's mature period. The three-movement symphony demonstrates the...

Albert Roussel's Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 28 is a work for violin and piano composed in 1924. It was premiered in Paris in 1925 and dedicated to the French composer Guy Ropartz. The sonata belongs to Roussel's mature chamber output, with the violin and piano functioning as interacting par...

Carl Nielsen's Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 9, composed in 1895, is the Danish composer's first published sonata for violin and piano. Nielsen, who was himself a violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, wrote the work early in his career before achieving widespread recognition with his sympho...

Max Reger's Violin Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, is a four-movement work for violin and piano from 1899. Its score uses the expansive forms, chromatic harmony, and contrapuntal writing associated with Reger's German late-Romantic style, while the intermezzo provides a sharply contrasting middle m...

Max Reger's Violin Sonata No. 7 in A major, Op. 103b No. 2, is a sonata for violin and piano also identified as the Kleine Sonate. Reger composed it in 1909 as a Hausmusik work and dedicated it to Robert Bignell. It is relevant to performers and listeners interested in Reger's late-Romantic chamber...

Antonio Vivaldi's Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 2 No. 2, catalogued as RV 31, is a Baroque chamber work for solo violin and basso continuo. It belongs to Vivaldi's Op. 2 collection of violin sonatas, published in Venice in 1709 and dedicated to Frederick IV of Denmark. The piece is intended for list...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Sonata in A major, K. 12, is an early chamber work composed in London in 1764, when Mozart was eight years old. The piece is keyboard-led, reflecting the eighteenth-century sonata tradition in which the keyboard carries much of the musical material while the accompan...