Composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 – 1996) wrote six sonatas for violin and piano, and three sonatas for solo violin, as well as an extensive number of chamber music, symphonic, vocal, and instrumental works. There is very little written on Weinberg’s violin and piano sonatas. The technical challenges and creative musical language employed in these works make them worthy of being studied, investigated, and added to the standard violin and piano chamber music repertoire. For this project I will write about the Sonatas no. 3 op. 37 (1947), and no. 5, op. 53 (1953) of Mieczyslaw Weinberg. I will also discuss Jewish influences and Shostakovich’s influences on Weinberg’s life and compositional style. To support this research, I will include excerpts from the scores to analyze Weinberg’s musical language. The performance of these two works will take place in the Spring of 2020 in conjunction with my final manuscript.