Violin Sonatas, Op. 137 (Schubert)

These sonatas breathe an intimate atmosphere, requiring relatively little virtuoso bravura from their performers.

137 are modest in size—rather to be compared to Mozart's violin sonatas than to Beethoven's—the "Sonatina" diminutive stuck to them.

Schubert wrote "März 1816" (March 1816) on the autograph score of his Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major (D 384).

[6] The sonata has four movements:[6] The publication of Schubert's works for violin and piano had started in 1827 and was completed quarter of a century later.

[12][7] Series VI, Volume 8 of the New Schubert Edition, published in 1970, contained the same works as series VIII of the 19th-century collected edition, but presented them in chronological order of composition, thus beginning with the three Op.