The organ sonatas of Walter Battison Haynes and Hugh Blair demonstrate a notable peak in the development of the English organ sonata as a work that is musically cohesive. As discussed in “The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata” (2017), the portfolio approach towards compositions under one title, a sonata, that included sometimes significantly contrasting movements of varying technical difficulty was common during the second half of the nineteenth century not least as a published ...

• Walter Battison Haynes (1859-1900): Sonata in D minor
• Hugh Blair (1864-1932): Short Sonata in G major