Clarinet sonata

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.

Clarinet sonatas

This list is approximately in chronological order.

• Felix Mendelssohn's Clarinet Sonata (1824)
• Theodore Gouvy's Clarinet Sonata, Op. 76 (1882)
• Felix Draeseke's Clarinet Sonata (1887), which also can be played by a violin
• Josef Rheinberger's Clarinet Sonata, Op. 105a (1893)
• Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Sonata No. 1 and Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (both 1894), which can also be played by a viola
• Max Reger's Clarinet Sonata No. 1, Clarinet Sonata No. 2 (both 1900) and Clarinet Sonata No. 3 (1909)
• Charles Villiers Stanford's Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (1912), which can also be played by a viola
• Camille Saint-Saëns's Clarinet Sonata (1921)
• Darius Milhaud's Sonatina for Clarinet (1927)
• John Cage's Sonata for Solo Clarinet (1933)
• Arnold Bax's Clarinet Sonata (1934)
• Antoni Szalowski's Clarinet Sonatina (1936)
• Paul Hindemith's Clarinet Sonata (1939)
• Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128 (1945)
• Nino Rota's Sonata in E major for Clarinet and Piano (1945)
• Mieczysław Weinberg's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 28 (1945)
• Herbert Howells's Clarinet Sonata (1946)
• Malcolm Arnold's Clarinet Sonatina (1951)
• Bohuslav Martinů's Clarinet Sonatina, H. 356 (1956)
• Francis Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata (1962); Sonata for 2 Clarinets, Op. 7 (1918/1945); and Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32 (1922/1945)
• Vyacheslav Artyomov's Sonata, clarinet solo (1966)
• Vyacheslav Artyomov's Confession, clarinet solo (1971)
• Carleton Elliott's Sonatina In One Movement for Clarinet and Piano
• Jack Cooper's Sonata for Clarinet (1999)
• Octavio Vazquez's Clarinet Sonata (2009)
• Dieter Lehnhoff's Sonata Urbana for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 30 (2010)

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.