Viola Repertoire
20 pieces · 14 composers · 37 editions
Johannes Brahms
3 pieces
Piano Quintet in F minor
One of the towering achievements of Romantic chamber music. Originally conceived as a string quintet, then a two-piano sonata before finding...
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Brahms's final symphony, culminating in a monumental passacaglia built on a theme from Bach's Cantata 150. The work looks backward and forwa...
Clarinet Quintet in B minor
One of Brahms's last works, inspired by the clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld. The autumnal warmth and resigned beauty of this quintet make it on...
Ludwig van Beethoven
2 pieces
String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
Beethoven considered this his greatest quartet. Seven movements played without pause, opening with a transcendent fugue. Schubert reportedly...
Symphony No. 5 in C minor
The four-note "fate knocking at the door" motif is the most recognizable opening in all of classical music. Beethoven transforms this simple...
Franz Schubert
2 pieces
String Quartet No. 14 "Death and the Maiden"
Named for the second movement's theme-and-variations based on Schubert's own song "Der Tod und das Mädchen." One of the most dramatic works ...
String Quintet in C major
Written weeks before Schubert's death and often considered his greatest chamber work. Scored for the unusual combination of two cellos (rath...
Béla Bartók
2 pieces
String Quartet No. 4
The fourth of Bartók's six string quartets, often considered the pinnacle of 20th-century chamber music. Five movements in an arch form (ABC...
Viola Concerto
Bartók's final work, left unfinished at his death and completed by Tibor Serly. Despite its complicated genesis, it has become the most impo...
Antonín Dvořák
2 pieces
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Composed during Dvořák's tenure in America, blending Czech and American folk influences. The English horn melody in the Largo is one of the ...
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major
One of the finest piano quintets in the repertoire, rivaling Brahms and Schumann. The Dumka slow movement, with its alternation of melanchol...
Maurice Ravel
1 piece
Claude Debussy
1 piece
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 piece
Richard Strauss
1 piece
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 piece
William Walton
1 piece
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1 piece
Felix Mendelssohn
1 piece
Samuel Barber
1 piece