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Music Education: The Search for Resources

This page includes pieces that are useful for violin instruction, organized by genre and level of difficulty.

Violin Pieces

Level 1

4 Short Pieces (1912)
by Frank Bridge
Allegro
by Joseph Hector Fiocco
Air Variés, Op. 89
by Charles Dancia
Andantino in the Style of Martini
by Fritz Kreisler
Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven
by Fritz Kreisler
Tempo di Minuetto in the Style of Pugnani
by Fritz Kreisler
The Boy Paganini
by Eduard Mollenhauer
The Infant Paganini
by Eduard Mollenhauer
Russian Fantasia No. 2
by Leo Portnoff

Level 2

3 Dances, H.4
by Frank Bridge
Allegro
by Joseph Hector Fiocco
Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the Style of Francoeur
by Fritz Kreisler
Mazurka No. 1
by Emil Młynarski
Polish Dance
by Edmund Severn
Allegro brillante, Op. 19
by Willem Ten Have

Level 3

Romance in F major, Op. 50
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Scène de ballet, op. 100
by Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Baal Schem
by Ernest Bloch
2 Pieces
by Lili Boulanger
4 Romantic Pieces, Op. 75
by Antonín Dvořák
Berceuse, Op. 16
by Gabriel Fauré
Hejre Kati: Scene from the Czárda: Op. 32, No. 4
by Jenő Hubay
Schön Rosmarin
by Fritz Kreisler
5 Madrigal Stanzas, H.297
Bohuslav Martinů
Csárdás
by Vittorio Monti
Romanza Andaluza
by Pablo de Sarasate
Romance, Op. 26
by Johan Svendsen
2 Mazurkas, Op. 19
by Henri Wieniawski

Violin Sonatas

Level 1

12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
by François Duval
10 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
by Jean Baptiste Senaillé

Level 2

Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
by Arcangelo Corelli
Violin Sonatina, Op. 100
by Antonín Dvořák
Violin Sonata in G Minor
by Henry Eccles
Violin Sonatas
by George Frideric Handel
6 Violin Sonatas
by Georg Philipp Telemann
Violin Sonata in E Minor, Op. 2
by Francesco Maria Veracini

Level 3

Sonata in D major, Op.9 No.3 'Tombeau'
by Jean-Marie Leclair
Sonatas
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in G minor, GT 2.g05
by Giuseppe Tartini

Violin Concerti

Level 1

Violin Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G4
by Georg Philipp Telemann
Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 3, No. 6
by Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in G Minor
by Antonio Vivaldi

Level 2

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor
by Jean-Baptiste Accolay
Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in G Major, Hob.VIIa:4
by Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto No. 19 in D Minor
by Rodolphe Kreutzer
Violin Concerto in E Minor
by Pietro Nardini
Violin Concerto No. 23 in G Major
by Giovanni Battista Viotti

Level 3

Concerto No. 7, Op. 76
by Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Concerto No. 9, Op. 104
by Charles-Auguste de Bériot
Concerto in C major, Hob.VIIa:1
by Joseph Haydn
Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto No. 7 in A minor, Op. 9
by Pierre Rode
Concerto No. 22 in A minor
by Giovanni Battista Viotti

Four Seasons by Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Editor); Antonio Vivaldi
Call Number: M1112.V59 C5 1999
ISBN: 048640644X
Publication Date: 1999-01-26

Violin Technique Books

Level 1

School of Violin Technics
by Henry Schradieck
60 Studies for the Violin, Op. 45
by Franz Wohlfahrt

Level 2

36 Violin Studies, Op. 20
by Heinrich Ernst Kayser
Melodious Double-Stops
by Josephine Trott

Level 3

24 Preparatory Exercises, Op. 37
by Jakob Dont