Schreker's compositional beginnings were still unknown when his stage works met with great success in the 1910s and 1920s. With this first publication of his violin sonata, written in 1898 in his student days at the Vienna conservatory, his early creative phase is made accessible in a representative work for the first time. Schreker composed the technically demanding three-movement sonata with the intention of performing it himself when he was studying violin with Arnold Rosé. The piece was writ...