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Schumann, Robert: Violin Sonata no. 2 in d minor

sheet music

Op. 121
Setting: Violin and Piano
Length: 96 pages
Weight: 0.392 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1098
Other reference: HN 1098
ISMN: 9790201810980
Schumann’s second violin sonata was written in October/November 1851, only a few weeks after the first work for this combination of instruments (HN 428). The highly virtuosic sonata, especially in the finale, is characterised by the close thematic dovetailing of the single movements. Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, who later became the composer’s biographer, reported that ''smiling in his kind-hearted manner'' the composer had said to him: ''I did not like the first violin sonata- so I then wrot
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