Viola Sonata

Full title	Sonata for viola and piano
Date composed	1940
Details	Adagio Allegretto commodo Allegro Composition completed July 1940. Soon after, Weigl's friend Paul Doktor edited the viola part; after the composer's death, Nadia Reisenberg edited the piano part for the work's publication. Performance duration: ca. 17 min.
Manuscript sources	NYPL JOB 73-111, holograph score (19 pages), with composer’s note on title page: New York, July 1940. Weigl also noted a completion date at the end of each movement: for the Adagio: 17./VI.1940; for the Allegretto: 21./VI. KW; and for the Allegro: 9./VII. 1940 / KW. On the top of page 1 of the score Weigl penciled directions to the copyist.
Publication details	John Markert and Co., 1953.
Availabiity	Performance score and part available from ACA and KWF.
Recordings	Paul Doktor and Nadia Reisenberg (LP: Triad TRI l, 1955). Paul Doktor and Richard Woitach (LP: Orion ORS 80389, 1980). CD also includes Weigl's Cello Sonata, Two Pieces for cello and piano, and Three Songs for male voice and piano.
Listen	Viola Sonata: movement 1, Adagio Paul Doktor and Nadia Reisenberg Viola Sonata: movement 2, Allegretto commodo Julia Rebekka Adler and Axel Gremmelspacher

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)

3 January 1941	Hartford, Connecticut: Julius Hartt School of Music: Alfred Kohn, viola; Karl Weigl, piano. Also on program: Handel, Concerto in B Minor; Ernst Bloch, Suite for viola and piano.
21 February 1941	New Jersey, WHOM radio performance and broadcast: William Schoen, viola; Karl Weigl, piano.
7 November 1947	New York, Mannes College School of Music: Paul Doktor, viola; Karl Weigl, piano.
27 November 1948	New York, Columbia University, McMillin Academic Theatre, Composer’s Forum, Compositions by Karl Weigl: unidentified, viola; Karl Weigl, piano.
9 August 1949	Normal, Illinois, Illinois State Normal University: Paul Doktor, viola; Bob Henderson, piano.
26 February 1950	New York, Times Hall, The National Association for American Composers and Conductors: Sol Greitzer, viola; Alice Shapiro, piano. Also on the program: works by Carl McKinley, George Kleinsinger, Kurt Weill, Dello Jolo, Daughtery, Hugo Norden, and Roger Goeb.
18 January 1951	New York: further performance details unknown.
21 July 1953	New York, WNYC radio broadcast, David Randolph’s Music for the Conneisseur—Music by Karl Weigl: Paul Doktor, viola; Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
2 May 1954	New York, New York Public Library: American Composers of Austrian Origin: Paul Doktor, viola; Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
5 February 1956	New York, WQXR radio broadcast: Paul Doktor, viola; Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
20 April 1959	New York, Mannes College of Music, Karl Weigl Memorial Concert: Marie R. Rosanoff, cello; Richard Woitach, piano.
3 November 1959	Boston, WBON radio broadcast, R. Dumm, The Pulse of Mind—Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Paul Doktor, viola; Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
10 November 1959	New York, WHON radio broadcast, R. Dumm, The Pulse of Mind—Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Paul Doktor, viola; Nadia Reisenberg, piano.
22 February 1960	New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Wolf—Mahler—WeiglMilton Thomas, viola; Robert Starer, piano.
16 October 1963	London: Fourth Festival of Twentieth Century Music: John Chambers, viola; Philip Jenkins, piano.
1 December 1964	Rochester, New York, Eastman School of Music: Paul Doktor, viola; unidentified, piano.
16 April 1967	New York, Hunter College and simultaneous WABF radio broadcast, Sonata Recital: Paul Doktor, viola; Arthur Balsam, piano.
25 August 1968	New York, WYNC radio broadcast: unidentified performers.
28 February 1969	Rochester, New York, Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall: Richard Field, viola; William Shockoff, piano.
28 February 1969	Rochester, New York, Eastman School of Music, Kilbourn Hall: Richard Field, viola; William Shookhoff, piano.
24 February 1971	New York, Juilliard School of Music, Lincoln Center, Alice Tull Hall: Richard Field, viola; Bernard Rose, piano.
17 February 1973	New York: Paul Doktor, viola; Richard Woitach, piano. Also on the program: Mahler, Quartet in A minor for piano and strings.
13 September 1976	New York, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl Program: Nancy Asher, viola; R. La Brecque, piano.
5 September 1978	New York, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Mahler—Weigl Program: L. Lawrence, viola; unidentified, piano.
8 September 1987	New York, Merkin Hall, The Karl Weigl Concerts, The Unbroken Tradition—Karl Weigl in Vienna and in Exile, concert I, All Weigl Program: Three Songs for contralto and string quartet (Hilda Harris and New World String Quartet [Curtis Macomber, Vahn Armstrong, Robert Dan, Ross Harbaugh]), Viola Sonata (Paul Silverthorne and Doris Richards), Five Songs for soprano and string quartet Lucy Shelton and New World String Quartet), Wild Dance from Two Pieces for cello and piano (Marcy Chanteaux and Doris Richards), and Five Duets for soprano and baritone (Lucy Shelton, George Shirley, and Alan Smith).
12 February 1988	Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blodgett Chamber Music Series at Harvard, Compositions by Karl Weigl: String Quartet No. 3 (New World String Quartet [Curtis Macomber, Vahn Armstrong, Robert Dan, Ross Harbaugh]). Three Songs for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (Hilda Harris and New World String Quartet), Five Songs for soprano and string quartet (Nancy Armstrong and New World String Quartet), and String Quartet No. 5.
5 October 1999	Budapest, Benczúr Ház, The Music of Karl Weigl Memorial Concerts, concert 2: Seven Songs op. 1 (Michael Kutner and Bárkányi Eva); Five Songs op. 10 nos. 2 and 3 and Six Songs for mezzo-soprano no. 5 (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan and Bárkányi Eva); Viola Sonata (Garth Knox and Stephan Ginsburgh); Five Songs for soprano and string quartet (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan and Akadémia Quartet [Környei Zsófia, Bodó Antónia, Móré László, Maróth Bálint]).
23 August 2010	Frankfurt, Germany: Viola Sonata, performed by Julia Rebekka Adler and Stephane Ginsburg. Also on the program: Joseph Joachim, Hebräische Melodien op. 9; Joachim Stutschewsky, Kol Nidrei; Frederick Jacobi, Fantasy for viola and piano; and Léo Weiner, Drei ungarische Tänze.
15 September 2010	Frankfurt, Bechstein Zentrum, Musica Judaica: Viola Sonata, with Julia Rebekka Adler and Stephane Ginsburgh. Also on program: Joseph Joachim, Hebräische Melodien; Joachim Stutschewsky, Kol nidre; Frederick Jacobi, Fantasy for viola and piano; Léo Weiner, Fox Dance; Alexandre Tansman, Alla pollaca.
15 September 2010	Frankfurt, Bechstein Zentrum, Musica Judaica: Viola Sonata, with Julia Rebekka Adler and Stephane Ginsburgh. Also on program: Joseph Joachim, Hebräische Melodien; Joachim Stutschewsky, Kol nidre; Frederick Jacobi, Fantasy for viola and piano; Léo Weiner, Fox Dance; Alexandre Tansman, Alla pollaca.
27 January 2014	Kassel, Germany: Viola Sonata performed by Eniko Magyar and Oliver Triendl; concert also broadcast on German radio.
27 January 2014	Kassel, Germany: Viola Sonata performed by Eniko Magyar and Oliver Triendl; concert also broadcast on German radio.

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