Sonates pour le Viollon et pour le clavecin, Vol.1: Sonata I (d), Sonata II (D)
Composed by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre
for Violin and Piano
Published by Furore Verlag
Includes piano score, violin and basso parts
Sonata I in d: Adagio, Presto, Adagio, Presto, Presto, Aria, Presto
Sonata II in D: Presto, Adagio, Presto
La Guerre‘s sonatas belong to the first examples of this genre in France. The composer was aware of her being a renewer of musical form and she named the iron (which she did own) and the sonata as the most remarkable inventions of the 17th century. La Guerre composed 6 Violin Sonatas, which were published in 1707. The first two Sonatas which are presented in this volume show typical features of La Guerre’s style: a sequence of numerous contrasting movements (the longer one of the two sonatas has 7 movements) and a cello part which gains a quality of its’ own and is not just a coloring of the left-hand keyboard sound.
