The exact circumstances under which this sonata, which only survives in the form of a copy made for the Royal College of Music (RCM), was written is unknown.

[2] Biographer Jeremy Dibble notes that it may have been written for Richard Gompertz or for Enrique Fernández Arbós, who ultimately became the dedicatee of the composer's Violin Concerto, Op.

[3] The only known performance of the sonata during the composer's lifetime took place in London on 7 December 1898 at the Prince's Galleries, Piccadilly, under the auspices of the Curtius Club.

[1] There is no documentary evidence of subsequent performances until the work was recorded by Hyperion in 1999[4] for an album featuring both of the composer's violin sonatas.

[5] A second recording was made in 2013 by violinist Alberto Bologni and pianist Christopher Howell as part of a collection of the complete works by Stanford for the instruments.