The Sonate pour violon et piano (Violin Sonata), FP 119, by Francis Poulenc was composed in 1942–1943 in memory of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

The work was premiered by the violinist Ginette Neveu with the composer at the piano on 21 June 1943 in Paris, Salle Gaveau.

[2] The writing of the sonata was largely due to the insistence of Ginette Neveu whom he did not want to antagonize and who gave him many tips for the violin part.

[9] There are, however, numerous recordings of the work, including that of the virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin accompanied by Jacques Février on the piano.

At one point he uses one of the oboe themes of the "letter song"[4] from the opera Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

From the point of view of harmonic style, this movement is the least in the usual language of the composer[4] and denotes a "vaguely Spanish" memory.