Violin concerto

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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Alban Berg (in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, with the only break coming between the second and third). In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra—for instance, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and Allan Pettersson's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.

[edit] Selected list of Violin Concertos

The following concertos are presently found near the center of the mainstream Western repertoire. For a more comprehensive list of violin concertos, see List of compositions for violin and orchestra.

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 (1717–1723)
  • Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (1717–1723)
  • Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (1723)
• Samuel Barber
  • Violin Concerto, op. 14 (1939)
• Béla Bartók
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Concerto in D, op. 61 (1806)
• Alban Berg
  • Violin Concerto (1935)
• Johannes Brahms
  • Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 (1878)
• Max Bruch
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26 (1867)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 44 (1878)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 58 (1891)
• Albert Dietrich
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 30
• Henri Dutilleux
  • L'Arbre des Songes (1985)
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53 (1879-80)
• Edward Elgar
  • Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61 (1910)
• Alexander Glazunov
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82 (1904)
• Joseph Joachim
  • Violin Concerto in G No.3
• Aram Khachaturian
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 46 (1940)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  • Violin Concerto in D, op. 35 (1945)
• Édouard Lalo
  • Violin Concerto in F, op. 20 (1874)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Violin Concerto in D minor (1822)
  • Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1844)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat, K. 207 (1773)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 (1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216, Strassburg (1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 (1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219, Turkish (1775), with alternative Adagio in E, K.261 (added 1776)
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in E flat, K. 268 (doubtful, 1780–81)
  • Violin Concerto No. 7 in D, K. 271a, Kolb (doubtful, 1777)
• Carl Nielsen
  • Violin Concerto, op. 33 (1911)
• Niccolò Paganini
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 6, MS 21 (ca. 1811–17)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, op. 7, MS 48, La Campanella (1826)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in E, MS 50 (ca. 1826–30)
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, MS 60 (ca. 1829–30)
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, MS 78 (1830)
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in E minor, op. posth., MS 75—probably the first to be written; only the solo part survives
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 19 (1917)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63 (1935)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A, op. 20 (1859)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C, op. 58 (1858)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, op. 61 (1880)
• Arnold Schoenberg
  • Violin Concerto (1936)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 77 (1948, rev. 1955 as op. 99)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, op. 129 (1967)
• Jean Sibelius
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 (1904)
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Violin Concerto (1931)
• Karol Szymanowski
  • Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 35 (1916)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2, op. 61 (1933)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Violin Concerto in D, op. 35 (1878)
• Henri Vieuxtemps
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in E, op. 10 (1840)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in F sharp minor, op. 19 (ca. 1835–36)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 in A, op. 25 (1844)
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, op. 31 (ca. 1850)
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, op. 37, Grétry (1861)
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in G, op. 47/op. posth. 1 (1865–1870)
  • Violin Concerto No. 7 in A minor, op. 49/op. posth. 3
• Antonio Vivaldi - many, particularly:
  • L'estro Armonico, op. 3 (1711)—twelve concertos
  • La stravaganza, op. 4 (ca. 1714)
  • The Four Seasons (ca. 1725)—four concertos, the first four numbers of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, op. 8
• William Walton
  • Violin Concerto (1939)
• Henryk Wieniawski
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 14 (1853)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 22 (1862)

[edit] Selected list of other works for violin and ensemble

• Béla Bartók
  • Violin Rhapsody No. 1
  • Violin Rhapsody No. 2
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Romance No. 1 in G, op. 40 (1798–1802)
  • Violin Romance No. 2 in F, op. 50 (1798–1802)
• Hector Berlioz
  • Rêverie et Caprice
• Leonard Bernstein
  • Serenade, after Plato's Symposium (1954)
• Ernest Bloch
  • Baal Shem
• Max Bruch
  • Romance in A minor, op. 42 (1874)
  • Scottish Fantasy, op. 46 (1880)
  • Adagio Appassionato in C sharp minor, op. 57 (1890)
  • Schwedische Tanze, op. 63/2 (1892)
  • In memoriam, op. 65 (1893)
  • Serenade in A minor, op. 75 (1899–1900)
  • Konzertstück in F sharp minor, op. 84 (ca. 1911)
• Ernest Chausson
  • Poème, op. 25 (1896)
• John Corigliano
  • Chaconne from "The Red Violin"
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Romance in F minor, op. 11 (1877)
• Édouard Lalo
  • Symphonie Espagnole, op. 21 (1874)
• Jules Massenet
  • Méditation from Thaïs (1894)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Concertone in C, for two violins and orchestra, K. 190 (1774)
  • Adagio in E, K. 261 (1776)
  • Rondo in B flat, K. 261a (1776)
• Arvo Pärt
  • Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1992)
  • Darf ich... for violin, bells and string orchestra (1995/1999)
• Maurice Ravel
  • Tzigane (1924)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, op. 28 (1863)
  • Romance in C, op. 48 (1874)
  • Morceau de concert in G, op. 62 (1880)
  • Havanaise in E, op. 83 (1887)
  • Caprice andalous in G, op. 122 (1904)
• Pablo de Sarasate
  • Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 (1878)
  • Carmen Fantasy, op. 25 (1883)
  • Navarra for two violins and orchestra, op. 33 (1889)
  • Miramar-Zortzico, op. 42 (1899)
  • Introduction and Tarantella, op. 43 (1899)
• Franz Schubert
  • Konzertstück in D, D. 345 (1816)
  • Rondo in A, D. 438 (1816)
  • Polonaise in B flat, D. 580 (1817)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Sérénade mélancolique
  • Souvenir d'un lieu cher
  • Valse-Scherzo
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • The Lark Ascending (1914)
• Henryk Wieniawski
  • Légende in G minor, op. 17 (1859)

[edit] See also

• Clarinet concerto
• Flute concerto
• Harpsichord concerto
• Piano concerto
• Viola concerto
• Violoncello concerto
• Double Concerto for Violin and Cello