Late in 1946, Rausch returned home after spending nearly three years in a POW camp. In his autobiography, he writes “My mind was filled with new ideas like an overflowing cup. … Opus after opus burst forth for the organ, orchestra, and string ensemble.” The Sonate für Violine und Klavier shows influences of Hindemith and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement in music which rejected the sentimentality of late Romanticism and the emotional agitation of Expressionism.