Dvorak - Sonatina G major op.100 - Henle - violin and piano

Violin Sonatina G major by Anton Dvorak for violin and piano.

Editor : Zdenka Pilková and Sonja Gerlach.
Fingering: Helmut Deutsch
Fingering and bowing for Violin: Helmut Deutsch

Level of difficulty (violin) : medium (level 5)

The Sonatina for Violin and Piano, op.100, was one of the works that Antonin Dvorak wrote during his first sojourn in America from September 1892 to May 1894. The second volume of his so-called American sketchbooks contains nine pages of sketches for the Sonatina dating from 19 to 22 November 1893. Dvorak wrote the date of 23 November 1893 at the beginning of his final copy, and dated the ends of the individual movements 24 November (first movement), 25 November (second and third movements) and 3 December 1893 (fourth movement). On 12 December he wrote to his friend Antonin Rus : "And now I hereby announce to you that, with God's aid, I have just completed my hundredth work ! It is a sonatina for violin and piano, and I wrote it for my children Tonik and Otla". (...)