sonatas
- plural of sonata.
Example Sentences
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But a startling number of pieces—symphonies, sonatas, madrigals, sonnets, even ambitious operas—were composed to the highest standards of professional musicianship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
In fact, this may be one reason why Brahms’ only solo music for viola was an alternate version he made of his two clarinet sonatas composed near the end of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Largely erased from classical music history because he was biracial, the 18th-century French Caribbean violinist and composer Joseph Bologne wrote concertos, sonatas and symphonies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
The sonatas were, in her reading at the time, intimate, private musings that were made public but didn’t seem as if they needed to be.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
A brilliant example of this occurs as the epilogue of Heinrich Biber’s devotional cycle of sixteen solo violin sonatas known as the ‘Rosary’ or ‘Mystery’ sonatas, composed in 1676.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
