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Violin concerto
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
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Samuel Barber
- Violin Concerto op. 14 (1939)
- Béla Bartók
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Alban Berg
- Ernest Bloch
- Violin Concerto in A minor (1938)
- Johannes Brahms
- Benjamin Britten
- Violin Concerto op. 15 (1939, rev. 1954, 1965)
- Max Bruch - wrote three violin concerti, with the first by far the best known
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1867)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44
- Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58
- Antonin Dvorak
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879-80)
- Edward Elgar
- Philip Glass
- Alexander Glazunov
- Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Concerto funčbre for violin and strings
- Hamilton Harty
- 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
- Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35
- Édouard Lalo Several violin concerti including
- Violin concerto in F, op. 20
- Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo) op. 21
- György Ligeti
- Felix Mendelssohn
- 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)
- Niccolň Paganini
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, MS 21
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, MS 48 La Campanella
- Violin Concerto No. 3 in E, MS 50
- Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, MS 60
- Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, MS 78
- Violin Concerto No. 6 in E minor, MS 75
- Sergei Prokofiev
- 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)
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Robert Schumann
- Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Roger Sessions
- Violin Concerto in B minor (1935)
- Jean Sibelius
- Christian Sinding
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in A, Op. 45
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, Op. 60
- Violin Concerto No. 3
- Igor Stravinsky
- Karol Szymanowski
- Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916)
- Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in E, Op. 10
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 19
- Violin Concerto No. 3 in A, Op. 25
- Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 31
- Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37 Gretry
- Violin Concerto No. 6 in G, Op. 47
- Violin Concerto No. 7 in A minor, Op. 49
- 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
- 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 concertante works for violin and orchestra
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