Sonatas for Violin and Piano

The Violin Sonata in A major is a sonata for violin and piano by Belgian composer César Franck, composed in 1886. The work is characterised by late-Romantic harmonic richness, cyclical thematic development and close interplay between the instruments, producing dense, lyrical textures and a quasi-symphonic structure, and it occupies an important place in Franck's late output and in the violin–piano repertoire of the late nineteenth century.