Violin concerto

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 repertory, with the best known works including those by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

Notable violin concertos

• John Adams
• Violin Concerto (1993)
• George Antheil
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1946)
• Lera Auerbach
• Violin Concerto No. 1 (2003)
• Violin Concerto No. 2, September 11 (2004)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)
• Antonín Dvo?ák
• Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53 (1879-80)
• Edward Elgar
• Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61 (1910)
• Gabriel Fauré
• Violin Concerto (1878?80); two of three movements were completed, the first survives
• Morton Feldman
• Violin and Orchestra (1979)
• Philip Glass
• Violin Concerto (1987)
• Alexander Glazunov
• Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82 (1904)
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Offertorium?Concerto for violin and orchestra (1980?86)
• John Harbison
• Concerto for Violin (1980/87)
• Lou Harrison
• Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1940?74)
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
• Concerto funèbre for violin and string orchestra (1939)
• Hamilton Harty
• Violin Concerto (1908)
• Paul Hindemith
• Violin Concerto (1939)
• Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
• Violin Concerto in C, op. 48 (1948)
• Aram Khachaturian
• Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 46 (1940)
• Concerto-Rhapsody in B flat minor, op. 96 (1961)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Violin Concerto in D, op. 35 (1945)
• Édouard Lalo
• Violin Concerto in F, op. 20 (1874)
• György Ligeti
• Violin Concerto (1989?92)
• Bruno Maderna
• Violin Concerto (1969)
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Violin Concerto in D minor (1822)
• Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 (1844)
• Gian Carlo Menotti
• Concerto for Violin (1952)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat, K. 207 (1775)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 (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, Turkish (1775)
• 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
• Arvo Pärt
• Tabula Rasa?Double Concerto for two violins, string orchestra, and prepared piano (1977)
• Allan Pettersson
• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1949)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (1977?78, rev. 1980)
• André Previn
• Violin Concerto (2001)
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, op. 19 (1917)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63 (1935)
• Max Reger
• Violin Concerto in A, op. 101 (1907-8)
• George Rochberg
• Violin Concerto (1974, rev. 2001)
• Miklós Rózsa
• Violin Concerto, op. 24 (1956)
• 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)
• Alfred Schnittke
• Violin Concerto No. 1 (1957, rev. 1966)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (1966)
• Violin Concerto No. 3 (1978)
• Violin Concerto No. 4 (1984) (http://www.expergo.org/schnittke/works.htm)
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Violin Concerto (1936)
• Gunther Schuller
• Concerto for Violin No. 1 (1976)
• Concerto for Violin No. 2 (1991)
• 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, 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)
• Christian Sinding
• Violin Concerto No. 1 in A, op. 45 (1898)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, op. 60
• Violin Concerto No. 3
• 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)
• Augusta Read Thomas
• Spirit Musings?Concerto for violin and orchestra (1997)
• Joan Tower
• Concerto for Violin (1992)
• 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
• Giovanni Battista Viotti?twenty-nine violin concertos, particularly:
• Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor (1792)
• Antonio Vivaldi?many, particularly:
• L'estro armonico, op. 3 (1711)?twelve concertos
• 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)
• Kurt Weill
• Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, op.12 (1924)
• Henryk Wieniawski
• Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 14 (1853)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 22 (1862)

Selected list of other works for violin and ensemble

• Béla Bartók
• One Ideal, op. 5/1 (1907?10)
• One Grotesque, op. 5/2 (1907?10)
• Rhapsody No. 1 (1928)
• Rhapsody No. 2 (1928)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Violin Romance No. 1 in G, op. 40 (1798?1802)
• Violin Romance No. 2 in F, op. 50 (1798?1802)
• Leonard Bernstein
• Serenade, after Plato's Symposium (1954)
• 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)
• Henry Cowell
• Air, HC 767/1a (1952)
• Fiddler's Jig, HC 771, Flirtatious Jig (1952)
• Luigi Dallapiccola
• Tartiniana (1951)
• Tartiniana seconda (1955?56)
• Antonín Dvo?ák
• Romance in F minor, op. 11 (1877)
• Alexander Glazunov
• Mazurka-Oberek in D, op. 100b (1917)
• Lou Harrison
• Koncherto for violin and percussion ensemble (1959)
• Music for Violin and Various Instruments, European, Asian, and African (1967?69)
• Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (1974; arr. for violin and string orchestra, 1993)
• Philemon and Baukis for violin and Javanese gamelan (1985?87)
• Paul Hindemith
• Kammermusik No. 4 (1925)
• Aaron Jay Kernis
• Air (1996; orig. for violin and piano, 1995)
• Lament and Prayer (1996)
• Édouard Lalo
• Symphonie espagnole, op. 21 (1874)
• Witold Lutos?awski
• Chain II (1984?85)
• Partita for Violin and Orchestra (1988; orig. for violin and piano, 1984)
• 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)
• Maurice Ravel
• Tzigane (1924)
• Steve Reich
• Duet for Two Violins and String Orchestra (1993)
• 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)
• Giacinto Scelsi
• Anahit (1965)
• Alfred Schnittke
• Sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1968; orig. for violin and piano, 1963)
• Quasi una sonata (1987)
• Hommage to Grieg (1993)
• Franz Schubert
• Konzertstück in D, D. 345 (1816)
• Rondo in A, D. 438 (1816)
• Polonaise in B flat, D. 580 (1817)
• Robert Schumann
• Fantasy in C major, op. 131 (1853)
• Christian Sinding
• Suite in A minor, op. 10, Suite in the Old Style (1889)
• Romance in D, op. 100 (1910)
• Josef Suk
• Fantasy in G minor (1902)
• Tan Dun
• Out of Peking Opera (1987, rev. 1994)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• The Lark Ascending (1914)
• Henryk Wieniawski
• Légende in G minor, op. 17 (1859)
• Iannis Xenakis
• Dox-Orkh (1991)