Violin Sonata No. 2
| Full title | Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in G Major / 2. Sonate für Violine und Klavier G-Dur | |
| Date composed | 1937 | |
| Details |
Allegro Adagio Allegro molto Composition completed May 1937. Performance duration: ca. 20 min. |
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| Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-113, holograph, with composer's note on title page: Wien, im Mai 1937. | |
| Availabiity | Performance score and part from ACA and KWF. | |
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| Listen |
Violin Sonata No. 2: movement 1, Allegro |
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Performances (click
icon to expand or collapse list)| 8 April 1941 | New York, private musicale, home of Mrs. H.A. Guinzburg, Works by Karl Weigl: Roman Totenberg, violin; Karl Weigl, piano. |
| 26 May 1942 | New York, private musicale, home of Mrs. H. A. Guinsburg: Joan Field, violin; Karl Weigl, piano. Also on program: Ysaye, Prelude for violin solo; Bach, arias arranged for soprano and cello. |
| 24 March 1944 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Clothier Memorial Auditorium: Roman Totenberg, violin; Karl Weigl, piano. Also on the program, with Vally Weigl in the four-hand piano works: Weigl, Pictures and Tales for piano duet; Mozart, Piano Duet Sonata in D Major; Schubert, Phantasy in F Minor; Brahms, Violin Sonata in A Major op. 100; and Dvorak, Three Legends and Slavonic Dance. |
| 1954 | New York, Violin Teachers Guild: Max Polikoff, violin; Claude Frank, piano. Also on the program, with other artists: Weigl, Two Pieces for cello and piano (with Kermit Moore and Abba Begin); and works by Bach and Beethoven. |
| 28 October 1959 | New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl: Violin Sonata No. 2: Gabriel Banat, violin; Richard Woitach, piano. Also on program: Hugo Wolf, Italian Serenade and songs; Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, with Ethel Erdos, mezzo-soprano. |
| 1 November 1959 | New York, Brooklyn Museum and simultaneous WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program (Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of His Death): Helen Qualwasser, violin; Richard Woitach, piano. |
| 2 April 1967 | New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Composers Legacy: Robert Rudié, violin; Zita Carno, piano. (Originally Weigls String Quartet No. 5, with the Riverdale String Quartet, had been scheduled for this concert.) Also on the program, with other artists: Edgard Varése, Density 21.5; Quincy Porter, songs; Erich Itor Kahn, Huit Inventions op. 7; Frederick Jacobi, Ballade for violin and piano; and Wallingford Riegger, Two Bergerettes. |
| 29 March 1968 | New York, Town Hall: Isidore Cohen, violin, Harriet Wingreen, piano. Also on the program, with other artists: Weigl, Pictures and Tales (Zelnab Naderi, piano); Frederick Jacobi, Moods, Prelude, and Toccata; Harold Branch, Piano Sonata and Scherzo; Barbara Kolb, Figments; Eugene Seaman, Andante for flute and piano; Tui St. George Tucker, Jakungo and Luft Up Your Heads; and Harold Seletsky, Impression. |
| 4 October 1979 | New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, A Mahler—Weigl Program for the benefit of the Karl Weigl Memorial Fund: Bruce Berg, violin; Richard Woitach, piano. Also on program: works by Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, and Vally Weigl. |
