An authoritative Urtext edition of Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, edited by Ernst-Günter Heinemann, featuring both marked and unmarked violin parts with fingering and bowing by Kurt Guntner. Debussy originally planned to compose a set of six sonatas, but due to serious illness he was able to complete only three. While the Sonata for Cello and Piano and the Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp were written swiftly during his exceptionally productive year of 1915, the violin sonata created significant challenges for him the following year. He struggled particularly with the final movement, and did not send the finished score to his publisher, Durand, until April 1917. Yet its difficult creation is hardly evident in the music itself: the sonata reveals an elegant classical clarity and vibrant energy, just as Debussy himself noted.