Violin concerto
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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period when the solo concerto form was first developed up to the present day. Many major composers have provided examples, with the best known including those by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.
Some violin concertos, especially in the modern era, accompany the violin with a chamber ensemble instead of an orchestra. Allan Pettersson's first concerto, for violin solo with string quartet, is an example and may be an extreme one.
Notable violin concerti
- John Adams
- Violin Concerto (1993)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
- Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
- Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 (1717-1723) - for two violins and orchestra
- 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)
- Ernest Bloch
- Violin Concerto in A minor (1938)
- Johannes Brahms
- Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 (1878)
- Benjamin Britten
- Violin Concerto op. 15 (1939, rev. 1954, 1965)
- Max Bruch - wrote three violin concerti, with the first by far the best known
- Antonin Dvorak
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879-80)
- Edward Elgar
- Philip Glass
- Violin Concerto (1987)
- Alexander Glazunov
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Concerto funèbre for violin and strings
- Hamilton Harty
- Violin Concerto (1908)
- Paul Hindemith
- Kammermusik no. 4 (1924-5)
- Violin Concerto (1939)
- Aram Khachaturian
- Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 46 (1940)
- Concerto-Rhapsody in B flat minor, Op. 96 (1961)
- Erich Korngold
- Édouard Lalo Several violin concerti including
- Violin concerto in F, op. 20
- Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo) op. 21
- György Ligeti
- Violin Concerto (1992)
- 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 (no later than 1775)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 (no later than 1775)
- Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K. 216 (1775)
- Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 (1775)
- Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219 (1775)
- Carl Nielsen
- Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911)
- Niccolò Paganini
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Max Reger
- Violin Concerto Op. 101 (1907-8)
- Miklós Rózsa
- Violin Concerto Op. 24 (1956)
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Alfred Schnittke
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1957, revised 1966)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1966)
- Violin Concerto No. 3 (1978)
- Violin Concerto No. 4 (1984) ([1] (http://www.expergo.org/schnittke/works.htm))
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Violin Concerto (1936)
- Robert Schumann
- Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)
- Roger Sessions
- Violin Concerto in B minor (1935)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (1948, first issued 1955 as Op. 99)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129 (1967)
- Jean Sibelius
- Christian Sinding
- 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
- Antonio Vivaldi - wrote many violin concerti, including:
- The Four Seasons - Four concerti, the first four numbers of Vivaldi's opus eight
- L'estro armonico (1711) - Twelve concerti for various combinations of four violins and cello
- William Walton
- Violin Concerto (1939)
- Henryk Wieniawski
Selected list of other concertante works for violin and orchestra
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Leonard Bernstein
- Max Bruch
- Ernest Chausson
- Antonin Dvorak
- Alexander Glazunov
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Maurice Ravel
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Franz Schubert
- Christian Sinding
- Josef Suk
- Fantasy (1902)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams