The founder of modern French music was Cesar Franck. He sought to incorporate the achievements of Romanticism within a Classic framework, but with a harmonic idiom influenced somewhat by the chromaticism of Liszt and Wagner. His chief works were almost accomplished hereafter 1880. The well-known violin sonata in A major (1886) is one of the important works of Cesar Franck.

There are four movements in this violin sonata. The first movement is a sonata form without development section; the second movement is a complete sonata form; the third movement is a binary form, consisted of Recitative and Fantasia; and the fourth movement is a rounded sonata form, also a pattern of Canon.

This paper includes historical background, structure, and analysis for performing, I hope it can show some points of view shared to everyone.