Jean-Joseph Mondonville

Violin Sonatas, op. 3 (Pieces de clavecin en Sonates avec accompagnement de violon). The sonatas that inspired Rameau to compose his Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts in 1741, Mondonville’s opus 3 stands as a monument to the French baroque. Mondonville, by all accounts a happy man, conveyed his joie de vivre in these sonatas, which require a high degree of virtuosity to interpret the typically Parisian elegance found therein.

Pages:  Vol. I (Sonatas 1-3), 39 pp., clavecin, 19 pp., violin;  Vol. 2 (Sonatas 4-6), 45 pp., clavecin, 19 pp., violin
Level:  Moderately advanced to advanced
Performance Time:  Individual sonatas, 8 to 12½ mins;  total, 60 mins.