While many of these changes were and are controversial, that procedure has a central role today in music theory, and is an essential part of the theory of sonata structure as taught in most music schools. Notable sonatas
Baroque (c. 1600 – c. 1760)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonatas for solo violin (BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005)
Sonatas for flute and continuo (BWV 1034, 1035)
Trio sonatas: for organ (BWV 525–530); for violin and harpsichord (BWV 1014–1019); for viola da gamba and harpsichord (BWV 1027–1029); for flute and harpsichord (BWV 1030, 1032); for flute, violin and continuo (Sonata sopril Soggetto Reale included in The Musical Offering)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Rosary Sonatas
George Frideric Handel
Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D major (HWV 371)
Giuseppe Tartini
Devils Trill Sonata
Domenico Scarlatti
List of solo keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti

Classical (c. 1760 – c. 1830)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor (K. 310)
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (K. 331/300i)
Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major (K. 332)
Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major (K. 333)
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K. 457)
Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major (K. 533/494)
Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major (K. 545)
Sonata in A for Violin and Keyboard (K. 526)
Franz Joseph Haydn
Sonata No. 1 in C major, Hob. XVI:1 – Piano Sonata No. 62, Hob.XVI:52
Franz Schubert
Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Sonata in A major, D. 959
Sonata in B♭ major, D. 960

Romantic (c. 1795 – c. 1900)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathétique"
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" (Sonata quasi una fantasia)
Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest"
Piano Sonata No.
Sonata (; Italian: [soˈnaːta], pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare [archaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by suonare], "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. : 17  The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until the Classical era, when it took on increasing importance. Sonata is a vague term, with varying meanings depending on the context and time period. By the early 19th century, it came to represent a principle of composing large-scale works. It was applied to most instrumental genres and regarded—alongside the fugue—as one of two fundamental methods of organizing, interpreting and analyzing concert music. Though the musical style of sonatas has changed since the Classical era, most 20th- and 21st-century sonatas still maintain the same structure. The term sonatina, pl. sonatine, the diminutive form of sonata, is often used for a short or technically easy sonata. Instrumentation
In the Baroque period, a sonata was for one or more instruments almost always with continuo. After the Baroque period most works designated as sonatas specifically are performed by a solo instrument, most often a keyboard instrument, or by a solo instrument accompanied by a keyboard instrument. Sonatas for a solo instrument other than keyboard have been composed, as have sonatas for other combinations of instruments.