Béla Bartok
Sonata for Solo Violin
Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd.
Sole Selling Agents: Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd.
London + Pars» Bow Johannesburg» Syey» Toronto Bnos Aires» New York‘This Sonata for Solo Violin was completed in March 1944 and is
Barték’s penultimate work, his last being the Third Piano Concerto.
It was composed for Yehudi Menuhin, who gave the first performance
in New York on the 26th of November 1944, In a letter to
Menuhin, Bart6k mentioned an alternative to the indicated use of the
mute in the Adagio, saying “The third movement can be played
entirely with mute; and how would it be altogether without mute?”
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BELA BARTOK
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