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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910)
• Philip Glass
  • Violin Concerto (1987)
• Alexander Glazunov
  • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
• 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
  • 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
  • Violin Concerto (1992)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • 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)
• Niccolò 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
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19 (1917)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)
• 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
  • Violin Concerto (1936)
• Robert Schumann
  • Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)
• 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)
• Roger Sessions
  • Violin Concerto in B minor (1935)
• Jean Sibelius
  • Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904)
• Christian Sinding
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A, Op. 45
  • 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)
• 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
  • 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)

Selected list of other concertante works for violin and orchestra

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40
  • Violin Romance No. 2 in F, Op. 50
• Max Bruch
  • Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
  • Violin Serenade, Op. 75
• Ernest Chausson
  • Poème, Op. 25
• Antonin Dvorak
  • Violin Romance in F minor, Op. 11
• Alexander Glazunov
  • Mazurka-Oberek, Op. 100b
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Adagio in E (K261)
  • Rondo in B-flat (K261a)
• Maurice Ravel
  • Tzigane
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
  • Havanaise, Op. 83
• Pablo de Sarasate
  • Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
  • Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25
• Franz Schubert
  • Rondo in A, D. 438
• Christian Sinding
  • Romance in D, Op. 100
  • Suite in A minor, Op. 10
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • The Lark Ascending