Music for violin and piano written for both in mind

[maliee01]

Could you suggest pieces for violin and piano where both are equally important?
Many thanks!

[49410enrique]

not sure what you mean by 'equally important' do you mean count the number of notes each one plays  and they must be equal? like say violin has 3,348 notes but if the piano only plays 3,302 then no?

sorry, just confused.

still i'll at least volunteer a pretty piece.

[andreslr6]

I guess you mean as where the intention is making chamber music, which in my opinion that should be the idea always, but anyways... sometimes other instruments don't appreciate the piano and consider us only "accompanists", specially singers and violinists... and flutists and oboists... and pretty much almost every non-pianist...

Anyways, starting from the baroque period, although not written for piano nor today's violins, Bach's 6 sonatas for violin and keyboard. I have the Henle edition of those and in the preface it says that those where the first sonatas where the keyboard was taking a role as in chamber music, not accompanist, that they are in fact duets and not solo violin accompanied by keyboard, or something along those lines, meaning it's equally important.

Classical, Mozart's and Beethoven's violin sonatas, the most popular are Mozart's Em and Beethoven's "Spring" sonata (pianistically not so difficult) and "Kreutzer".

On the Romantic period, I can't remember any right now but I believe you'll most probably find short pieces and/or transcriptions...

20th century is when my favorites where written: Ravel's sonata for piano and violin, I believe Tzigane was originally intended for piano instead of orchestra, need someone to confirm this ; Bartok's sonata for piano and violin, I think he has more than 1 actually; and my favorite duet of all times: Prokofiev's Fminor sonata for piano and violin. He has two actually, the D major is the most popular, specially on flute, and overplayed in my opinion, I hear it being played by at least 2 different players per year in my school, but the F minor never, even though I proposed it to a friend .

OH!! Schoenberg's Phantasie for piano and violin!!! How could I forget that?? also one of my favorites, probably my second favorite, although I read somewhere last week that he originally intended it for solo violin and later decided to add the piano part, but it is no transcription or anything like that, both are equally important.

[the89thkey]

The Franck A major sonata is one of my favorite chamber works and has great passages for both instruments. As long as you aren't worried about difficulty I highly recommend this piece.

[patrickd]

The Franck A major sonata is one of my favorite chamber works and has great passages for both instruments. As long as you aren't worried about difficulty I highly recommend this piece.

Agreed!!

[the89thkey]

Agreed!!

Hey...that's my line