Sonate en Symphonie Op. 3, No. 2

• This work comes from Mondonville’s Pièces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon op.3 (pub. Paris, 1734).¹
  • This set was originally written as a duet for harpsichord and violin, in which both instruments are equal partners;² or, alternately, the harpsichord part could be played alone. 15 years later, Mondonville arranged the set for orchestra.³
  • The unusually versatile instrumentation of the 1734 edition was an innovation. Mondonville pointed this out in the preface to the work:

“I’ve taken pains to try for something new.” 

Mondonville, from the Preface to Pièces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon op.3.⁴

1. Marc Signorile, “Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000018945. 
2. Jean Joseph de Mondonville, Pièces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon (Paris, 1734).
3.  Andrea Hechtenberg, trans. Richard Evidon, liner notes to Mondonville: 6 Sonates op.3, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Archiv 474550-2, CD, 1998.
4. Ibid.