There are very few examples of viola sonatas from the Classical and Romantic eras, though Johannes Brahms wrote two viola sonatas that were originally intended for the clarinet and Felix Mendelssohn wrote a relatively little known viola sonata when he was 15. Anton Rubinstein, another composer of ...
The viola is similar in shape to the violin, though a little larger, and occupies the middle position among the stringed instruments of the violin family, between the violin and cello. The tone of the instrument is thicker than that of the violin and the mood can be darker, often forming...