Violin concerto

List of violin concertos#

The following concertos are presently found near the center of the mainstream Western repertoire. *John Adams **Violin Concerto (1993) *Malcolm Arnold **Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra (1969) *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 major, Op. 61 (1806) *Alban Berg **Violin Concerto (1935) *Ernest Bloch **Violin Concerto (1938) *Nimrod Borenstein **Concerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013) *Johannes Brahms **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878) *Benjamin Britten **Violin Concerto (1939) *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) * Henri Casadesus ** Concerto in D major in the style of Luigi Boccherini *Frederick Delius ** Violin Concerto *Henri Dutilleux **L’Arbre des songes (1985) *Antonín Dvořák **Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–1880) *Danny Elfman **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra “Eleven Eleven” (2017) *Edward Elgar **Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910) *Eduard Franck **Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 30 (1855/1861) **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 57 (1875) *Richard Franck **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 43 (1906) *Hans Gal **Violin Concerto Op. 39 (1932) **Concertino for Violin and Orchestra Op. 52 (1939) *Philip Glass **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 1 (1987) **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2, “The American Four Seasons” (2009) *Alexander Glazunov **Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 (1904) *Karl Goldmark **Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 28 (1877) *Georg Friedrich Händel **Violin Concerto in B flat major, HWV 288 (ca. 1707) *Joseph Haydn **Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIa:1 (ca. 1765) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIa:2 (1765, lost) **Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Hob. VIIa:3 “Melker Konzert” (ca. 1770) **Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major, Hob. VIIa:4 (1769) *Jennifer Higdon **Violin Concerto (2008) *Paul Hindemith **Violin Concerto (1939) *Robin Holloway **Violin Concerto Op. 70 (1990) *Akira Ifukube **Rhapsodia Concertante for Violin and Orchestra (1948) **Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978) *Shin’ichiro Ikebe **Violin Concerto, (1981) *Joseph Joachim **Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor *Mieczysław Karłowicz **Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902) *Aram Khachaturian **Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 46 (1940) *Ståle Kleiberg **Violin Concerto no. 1 (2005) **Violin Concerto no. 2 (2017) *Erich Wolfgang Korngold **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1945) *Édouard Lalo **Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 20 (1874) **Symphonie Espagnole (1874) *Jean-Marie Leclair ** 12 concertos for violin and orchestra op.7 & op.10 *Marian Lejava **Vertigo - Concerto for Violin and Ensemble Op. 23 (2018) *Lowell Liebermann **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 74 (2001) *Avrohom Leichtling **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 95 (1988–1991) *György Ligeti **Violin Concerto (1992) *Karol Lipiński **Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 14 in F minor (1822) **Violin Concerto No. 2 “Militaire” Op. 21 in D major (1826) **Violin Concerto No. 3 Op. 24 in E minor (1830–33) **Violin Concerto No. 4 Op. 32 in A major (1844) *Wynton Marsalis **Violin Concerto (2019) *Henri Marteau **Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 18 (1916) *Bohuslav Martinů **Violin Concerto No 1 H 232b (1933) **Violin Concerto No. 2 H 293 (1943) *Felix Mendelssohn **Violin Concerto in D minor (1822) **Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844) *Edgar Meyer **Violin Concerto (2000) *Nikolai Myaskovsky **Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44 (1938) *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart **Violin Concerto No. 1 in B major, K. 207 (1773), with alternative Rondo in B, K. 269/261a (added 1775–1777) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211 (1775) **Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, Strassburg (1775) **Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218 (1775) **Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, Turkish (1775), with alternative Adagio in E, K. 261 (added 1776) **Violin Concerto No. 6 in E-flat major, K. 268 (Attributed to Johann Friedrich Eck, 1780–81) **Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 271a, Kolb (Doubtful, 1777) **Adélaïde Concerto (Forgery by Marius Casadesus, 1933) *Marjan Mozetich **Affairs of the Heart: Violin Concerto (1998) *Carl Nielsen **Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911) *Michael Nyman **Violin Concerto (2003) *Niccolò Paganini **Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, 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 major, 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 *Giovanni Battista Pergolesi **Violin Concerto in B flat major *Manuel M. Ponce **Violin Concerto (1943) *Gerhard Präsent **Violin Concerto Op. 73 (2015) *André Previn **Violin Concerto “Anne-Sophie” (2001) *Florence Price **Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (1939) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor (1952) *Sergei Prokofiev **Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (1917) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935) *Behzad Ranjbaran **Violin Concerto (2002) * Max Reger **Violin Concerto in A major Op. 101 (1907–1908) *Miklós Rózsa **Violin Concerto, Op. 24 (1953) *Camille Saint-Saëns **Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 20 (1859) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 58 (1858) **Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 (1880) *Esa-Pekka Salonen **Violin Concerto (2009) *Alfred Schnittke **Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra (1957, revised 1963) **Concerto No. 2 for violin and chamber orchestra (1966) **Concerto No. 3 for violin and chamber orchestra (1978) **Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra (1984) *Arnold Schoenberg **Violin Concerto (1936) *Robert Schumann **Violin Concerto, WoO 23 (1853) *Laura Schwendinger **Violin Concerto “Chiaroscuro Azzurro” *Vache Sharafyan **Concerto-Serenata for violin and strings **Con-Cor-Dance Violin Concerto #2 *Dmitri Shostakovich **Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (1948, rev. 1955 as Op. 99) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 129 (1967) *Aleksandr Shymko **Violin Concerto (2012) *Peter Seabourne **Violin Concerto (with string orchestra) (2018) *Jean Sibelius **Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904) *Maddalena Laura Sirmen **Six Violin Concerti *Richard Strauss **Violin Concerto (1881–82) *Igor Stravinsky **Violin Concerto (1931) *Karol Szymanowski ** Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916) ** Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1932–1933) *Toru Takemitsu **Far calls. Coming, far! for Violin and Orchestra (1980) *Boris Tchaikovsky **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1969) *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky **Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878) *Daniel Theaker **Violin Concerto *Henri Vieuxtemps **Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 10 (1840) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 19 (ca. 1835–36) **Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, 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 major, 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 *Giovanni Battista Viotti **Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor *William Walton **Violin Concerto (1939) *Henryk Wieniawski **Violin Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 14 (1853) **Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 (1862) *John Williams **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1976) **TreeSong: for Violin and Orchestra (2000) *Malcolm Williamson **Violin Concerto (1963–1964) * Felix Woyrsch ** Skaldische Rhapsodie in D minor, Op. 50 (1904) * Pēteris Vasks ** Tālā Gaisma (“Distant Light”) (1996-7) * He Zhanhao and Chen Gang ** Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto (1959)

List of other works for violin and orchestra#

• Béla Bartók
• Violin Rhapsody No. 1 (1929)
• Violin Rhapsody No. 2 (1928)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Romance No. 1 in G major, op. 40 (1798–1802)
• Romance No. 2 in F major, op. 50 (1798–1802)
• Hector Berlioz
• Rêverie et Caprice, Op. 8 (1841; 1842)
• Leonard Bernstein
• Serenade, after Plato: Symposium (1954)
• Ernest Bloch
• Baal Shem (1939)
• Max Bruch
• Romance in A minor, op. 42 (1874)
• Scottish Fantasy, op. 46 (1880)
• Adagio Appassionato in C minor, op. 57 (1890)
• In memoriam, op. 65 (1893)
• Serenade in A minor, op. 75 (1899–1900)
• Konzertstück in F 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)
• Richard Franck
• Serenade in A major, op. 25 (1896)
• Takekuni Hirayoshi
• Requiem for violin and orchestra
• Joe Hisaishi
• Interior Symphony for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra (2015)
• Jules Massenet
• “Méditation” from Thaïs (1894)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Concertone in C major, for two violins and orchestra, K. 190 (1774)
• Rondo in B major, K. 269/261a (1775-1777)
• Adagio in E major, K. 261 (1776)
• Rondo in C major, K. 373 (1781)
• Arvo Pärt
• Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1992)
• Darf ich… for violin, bells and string orchestra (1995/1999)
• Maurice Ravel
• Tzigane (1924)
• Laurence Rosenthal
• Prophetic Voices for violin, percussion and orchestra
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, op. 28 (1863)
• Romance in C major, op. 48 (1874)
• Morceau de concert in G major, op. 62 (1880)
• Havanaise in E major, op. 83 (1887)
• Caprice andalous in G major, op. 122 (1904)
• Pablo de Sarasate
• Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 (1878)
• Carmen Fantasy, op. 25 (1883)
• Miramar-Zortzico, op. 42 (1899)
• Introduction and Tarantella, op. 43 (1899)
• Akira Senju
• Sai Fog for violin and string orchestra (1994)
• Four Seasons for violin and string orchestra (2004)
• Franz Schubert
• Konzertstück in D major, D. 345 (1816)
• Rondo in A major, D. 438 (1816)
• Polonaise in B major, D. 580 (1817)
• Robert Schumann
• Fantasy in C major, Op. 131 (1853)
• Josef Suk
• Fantasy in G minor, Op. 24
• Toru Takemitsu
• Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for violin and string orchestra (1987)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26 (1875)
• Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42 (written for violin and piano in 1878; arranged for violin and orchestra by Alexander Glazunov in 1896)
• Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34 (1877)
• Andrew Thomas
• Premonitions (2017, written for violinist Claudia Schaer and North/South Ensemble)
• John Williams
• Markings for solo violin, strings and harp (2017)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• The Lark Ascending (1914)
• Henryk Wieniawski
• Polonaise de Concert No. 1, Op. 4 (sometimes known as Polonaise Brillante; 1853)
• Légende in G minor, op. 17 (1859)
• Fantasy brillante on Gounod’s “Faust”, op.20

See also#

• Violin sonata
• Piano trio