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, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Wieniawski. The term concerto usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is contrasted with an orchestra. ... A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... The Boston Pops orchestra performing on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... Bach redirects here. ... Béla Bartók in 1927 For other uses, see Bartok (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Johannes Brahms. ... Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of thirty Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of Jewish parentage of the early Romantic period. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sibelius redirects to this article. ... A young Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1874) Tchaikovsky redirects here. ... Unconfirmed portrait of Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678, Venice – July 28 (or 27), 1741, Vienna), nicknamed Il Prete Rosso (The Red Priest), was an Italian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist. ... Henri Wieniawski (10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish composer and violinist. ...

Traditionally a three movement work, the violin concerto has seen a number of modern composers write for four movements. Some examples include violin concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg (Berg`s violin concerto is structured in four movements where the first, second and third and fourth movements are connected with only a break in the middle between the second and third). Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian: , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: И́горь Фёдорович Страви́нский Igor Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian-born composer of modern classical music. ... Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. ...

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. Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and nonchord tones, in relation to a bass note. ... Gustav Allan Pettersson (September 19, 1911 – June 20, 1980) was a Swedish composer born in Uppland. ...

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. This is a list of musical 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 (1829-1908)
  • 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)
• Phillip Glass
  • Violin Concerto (1987)
• Alexander Glazunov
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82 (1904)
• Joseph Joachim (1831-1907)
  • 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 (1775)
  • 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)
  • Violin Concerto No. 6 in E flat, K. 268 (Spurious, 1780-1)
  • Violin Concerto No. 7 in D, K. 271a, Kolb (1777)
  • Adelaide Concerto—forgery by Marius Casadesus
• 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)

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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)

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See also

• Clarinet concerto
• Harpsichord concerto
• Piano concerto
• Viola concerto
• Violoncello concerto