The International Fritz Kreisler Competition is a

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

competition dedicated to the memory of

ist and

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Fritz Kreisler Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known ...

. Founded in 1979, it is carried out every four years in

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. It is limited to violinists of or under 30 years of age. To avoid favoritism, the members of the jury may not enter their own students in the contest.Czech violinist Jan Mraek wins International Fritz Kreisler Competition
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Required repertoire

Preliminaries

J. S. Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...

: the first two movements of a solo sonata, the first four movements of a

partita Partita (also ''partie'', ''partia'', ''parthia'', or ''parthie'') was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722), his student Christoph Graupner, and Johann ...

, or the Ciaccona (of the Second Partita) * A caprice by Paganini, Wieniawski, or

Ernst Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) ...

* F. Kreisler: Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice

Semifinal

* G. Tartini:

Devil's Trill Sonata The Violin Sonata in G minor, B.g5, more familiarly known as the ''Devil's Trill Sonata'' ( Italian: ''Il trillo del diavolo''), is a work for solo violin (with figured bass accompaniment) by Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770). It is the composer's bes ...

with the Kreisler cadenza or * F. Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro or * F. Kreisler: Variations on a Theme by Corelli *A composition for violin and piano of the "Viennese school" from the

18th 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

to the

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(Viennese classic,

Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped with ...

, R. Strauss, Schönberg,

Webern Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stead ...

, Krenek, etc.) *A modern composition of the 20th century (violin/piano or violin solo) from a composer of the participant's home country *A virtuoso composition of free choice (violin/piano or violin solo) *One of

's short compositions or arrangements as an encore (e.g. ''Caprice Viennois'', ''Tambourin Chinois'', '' Liebesleid'', '' Liebesfreud'', Spanish Dance, ''Syncopation'' etc.)

Final

A violin concerto of the 19th or 20th century (the earliest accepted being

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

) with a Kreisler cadenza if possible ''Most of these pieces must be played by memory.''

Required repertoire

Preliminaries

Semifinal

Final

Finalists, laureates and winners

External links

References