The Austrian composer, conductor and pianist Waldemar Bloch, was born on May 5, 1906 in Vienna, but soon moved to Graz to study piano and composition with the famous Roderich von Mojcisovics. After the war in 1945, Waldemar taught piano at the Styrian Provincial Conservatory of Music and theory at the famous Academy of Music in Graz in 1956; the same year he wrote our Sonata. A few critics consider his music well suited for film scores due to its fragmented and emotionally charged melodramatic interjections. The Sonate for violin and guitar begins with a model Sonata-Allegro movement, followed by a melancholy slow movement which explores the sounds of a 'muted' violin, concluding with a fugue (which is quite rare outside of transcriptions). We feel that the intimate nature of guitar and violin best communicates the subtle inflections found in the music of Waldemar Bloch. His theoretical treatises: Neue Harmonielehre (1948), Allgemeine Musikkunde (1954), and Tonsatzlehre in 1966 and his local stardom earned him the State Prize from the Austrian Republic. Bloch passed away on February 19, 1984 in Graz.