Brahms’s First Violin Sonata in G major is also known by the sobriquet “Regenliedsonate” (Rain Sonata) because its final movement quotes melodic motifs from his two songs “Regenlied” and “Nachklang” (which likewise has rain as its subject). The dotted opening motif of the finale already pervades the first two movements, thereby contributing to the inner cohesion of this wonderfully expressive, elegiac work. Brahms’s contemporaries enthusiastically received this sonata, which was completed in 1879. Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, a close friend of the composer, found that one has to “love it like little else in the world”.

The musical text of this revised Urtext edition is based on that of the newly completed volume of the New Brahms Complete Edition, which guarantees the highest degree of scholarly precision.

• Music texts following the Brahms Complete Edition, focussing the Brahms’s notational idiosyncrasies
• With information on the origin and readings of the sources
• New engraving, solo part with foldout pages
• Fingering for violin and piano by the experts Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen
• For advanced amateurs, students and professionals

Bernd Wiechert (Editor)

Martin Helmchen (Fingering)

Frank Peter Zimmermann (Fingering and bowing for Violin)

Urtext Edition, paperbound

with marked and unmarked string parts

revised edition