Brahms: Violin SonatasBrahms early on engaged with the violin sonata genre. As early as 1853 he wrote a sonata in a minor, which like so many other youthful works of this self critical composer no longer survives. Thus the G major sonata op. 78, written in 1878 79, is now counted as his first contribution to the genre; it has the nickname Regenlied Sonata (literally rain song sonata) because of the quotation from a song that appears in the finale. In summer 1886 Brahms