Description
Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata op. 115 was composed in the summer of 1947 as a commission for the Soviet Committee for Artistic Affairs, which had requested a pedagogical work for young violin students. The three-movement solo sonata composed in accordance with these stipulations therefore displays only intermediate technical difficulty and a moderate length yet is unmistakably “genuine” Prokofiev. Thus, it has established itself both as a very popular piece for violin study and as a shorter recital piece for professionals.
This first Urtext edition provides a scholarly well-founded musical text based on the autograph and the Soviet first edition of 1952 – prepared optimally for performance:
fold-out pages enable smooth page turns; the excellent violinist Tianwa Yang provides helpful fingerings. Henle thus offers the ideal foundation for studying the sonata.
The informative preface by the world’s leading Prokofiev specialist Simon Morrison
reveals interesting details about the work’s genesis.
