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A violin concerto is a

concerto A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...

for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the

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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, Bruch, Dvořák,

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Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...

, Paganini, Prokofiev, Sarasate, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including

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, and

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

. 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, in Vivaldi's '' L'estro armonico'', originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and in

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's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.

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 Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. The music critic Donal Henahan said, "Proba ...

** Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939) *

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

** Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908) ** Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938) * Ludwig van Beethoven ** Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806) *

** Violin Concerto (1935) *

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** Violin Concerto (1938) * Nimrod Borenstein **Concerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013) *

Johannes 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 wit ...

** 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) * Frederick Delius ** Violin Concerto * Henri Dutilleux **''

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'' (1985) *

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

** Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–1880) *

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** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Eleven Eleven" (2017) *

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

** 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) *

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(1932) ** Concertino for Violin and Orchestra Op. 52 (1939) *

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** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 1 (1987) ** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" (2009) *

Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 ...

** 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 (c. 1707) *

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

** 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 Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Award for Best Contempora ...

** 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) *

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**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 The ''Symphonie espagnole'' in D minor, Op. 21, is a work for violin and orchestra by Édouard Lalo. History The work was written in 1874 for violinist Pablo Sarasate, and premiered in Paris on February 7, 1875. Although called a "Spanish Sympho ...

'' (1874) * Lowell Liebermann **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 74 (2001) *

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**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) *

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(1933) **

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** 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

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, 1780–81) ** Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 271a, ''Kolb'' (Doubtful, 1777) **

Adélaïde Concerto The Adélaïde Concerto is the nickname of a violin concerto in D major attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and given the catalogue number K. Anh. 294a in the third edition of the standard Köchel catalogue of Mozart's works. Unknown until the ...

(Forgery by Marius Casadesus, 1933) * Marjan Mozetich ** Affairs of the Heart: Violin Concerto (1998) * Carl Nielsen ** Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911) *

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**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 *

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**Violin Concerto in B flat major *

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** Violin Concerto (1943) * Gerhard Präsent **Violin Concerto Op. 73 (2015) *

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** Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" (2001) * 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) *

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** Violin Concerto in A major Op. 101 (1907–1908) * Miklós Rózsa ** Violin Concerto, Op. 24 (1953) *

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** 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) A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up thro ...

* 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) *

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** Violin Concerto (1936) *

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** Violin Concerto, WoO 23 (1853) *

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**Violin Concerto "Chiaroscuro Azzurro" *

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**Concerto-Serenata for violin and strings **Con-Cor-Dance Violin Concerto #2 *

** 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) *

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**Violin Concerto (2012) * Peter Seabourne **Violin Concerto (with string orchestra) (2018) * Jean Sibelius ** Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904) *

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** Violin Concerto (1931) *

Karol Szymanowski Karol Maciej Szymanowski (; 6 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century. Szymanowski's early works show the inf ...

** 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) *

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**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 *

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— 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) *

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** Violin Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 14 (1853) ** Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 (1862) *

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**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) *

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and Chen Gang ** Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (1959)

List of other works for violin and orchestra

** 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) *

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**''Rêverie et Caprice'', Op. 8 (1841; 1842) *

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**'' Serenade, after Plato: Symposium'' (1954) *

**''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) *

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** Chaconne from '' The Red Violin'' *

** 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) *

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**" 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) *

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**'' Fratres'' for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1992) **''Darf ich...'' for violin, bells and string orchestra (1995/1999) *

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**'' Tzigane'' (1924) * Laurence Rosenthal **''Prophetic Voices'' for violin, percussion and orchestra *

** 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 Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (; 10 March 1844 – 20 September 1908), commonly known as Pablo de Sarasate, was a Spanish (Navarrese) violin virtuoso, composer and conductor of the Romantic period. His best known works include ...

**'' Zigeunerweisen'', op. 20 (1878) ** ''Carmen Fantasy'', op. 25 (1883) **''Miramar-Zortzico'', op. 42 (1899) **Introduction and Tarantella, op. 43 (1899) *

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**''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) *

**Fantasy in C major, Op. 131 (1853) *

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* Toru Takemitsu **Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for violin and string orchestra (1987) * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky **'' Sérénade mélancolique'', Op. 26 (1875) **''

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'', Op. 42 (written for violin and piano in 1878; arranged for violin and orchestra by

in 1896) **'' Valse-Scherzo'', Op. 34 (1877) * Andrew Thomas **'' Premonitions'' (2017, written for violinist Claudia Schaer and North/South Ensemble) *

**Markings for solo violin, strings and harp (2017) *

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The Lark Ascending "The Lark Ascending" is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, so ...

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** 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

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List of violin concertos

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