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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo

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 regu ...

(occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

). Such works have been written since 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 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 wor ...

, Bartók,

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 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 ...

, Bruch, Dvořák, Khachaturian,

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 period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sym ...

, Mozart, Paganini,

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...

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 inclu ...

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...

Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

, and

Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widesprea ...

. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Alban Berg. In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a

chamber ensemble Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

rather than an orchestra—for instance, in Vivaldi's ''

L'estro armonico ''L'estro armonico'' (''The Harmonic Inspiration''), Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for stringed instruments by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, first published in Amsterdam in 1711. Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, and Twelve Violin ...

'', originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and in Allan Pettersson'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 John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of t ...

Violin Concerto 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 ...

(1993) *

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...

Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra The Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra, Op. 77 by Malcolm Arnold was finished in 1962. It is in three movements: #Allegro risolutoCraggs, Stewart R. (1998). . Greenwood Publishing Group. page 20. . #Andantino #Vivace – Presto The ...

(1969) *

Johann Sebastian 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 ...

** 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 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 classic ...

** Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806) * Alban Berg **

(1935) * Ernest Bloch **

(1938) *

Nimrod Borenstein Nimrod Borenstein ( he, נמרוד בורנשטיין; born in 1969) is a British-French-Israeli composer whose music is widely performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. His works are becoming part of the repertoire of ma ...

**Concerto for violin and orchestra opus 60 (2013) * Johannes Brahms ** Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878) *

Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...

(1939) *

Max Bruch Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a prominent staple of the standard ...

** 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 Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...

** Violin Concerto *

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

**'' L'Arbre des songes'' (1985) * Antonín Dvořák ** Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–1880) * Danny Elfman ** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Eleven Eleven" (2017) * Edward Elgar ** Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910) *

Eduard Franck Eduard Franck (5 October 1817 – 1 December 1893) was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue. Life Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy banker who exposed h ...

** 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) * Hans Gal ** Violin Concerto Op. 39 (1932) **

Concertino for Violin and Orchestra Op. 52 Concertino may refer to: *Concertino (composition), a small or short concerto *Concertino (group), the group of soloists in a concerto grosso * ''Concertino'' (Janáček), a 1926 composition by Leoš Janáček *''Concertino'', a 1952 ballet by Ge ...

(1939) * Philip Glass ** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 1 (1987) ** Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 2, "The American Four Seasons" (2009) * Alexander Glazunov ** Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 (1904) *

Karl Goldmark Karl Goldmark (born Károly Goldmark, Keszthely, 18 May 1830 – Vienna, 2 January 1915) was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.Peter Revers, Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, Richard L. Rudolph The Great Tradition and Its Legacy 2004; , p. ...

** Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 28 (1877) *

Georg Friedrich Händel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training i ...

**Violin Concerto in B flat major, HWV 288 (c. 1707) * Joseph Haydn ** 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 **

(2008) *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ' ...

(1939) *

Robin Holloway Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer. Early life Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was educated at King's College School, ...

**Violin Concerto Op. 70 (1990) *

Akira Ifukube was a Japanese classical and film music composer, best known for his works on the ''Godzilla'' franchise. Biography Early years in Hokkaido Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimi ...

**Rhapsodia Concertante for Violin and Orchestra (1948) **Violin Concerto No. 2 (1978) * Shin'ichiro Ikebe **Violin Concerto, (1981) *

Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of t ...

** Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor *

Mieczysław Karłowicz Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Life Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to ...

** Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902) *

Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; rus, Арам Ильич Хачатурян, , ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan, Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; hy, Արամ Խաչատրյան, ''Aram Xačʿatryan''; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet and Armenia ...

** Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 46 (1940) * Ståle Kleiberg **Violin Concerto no. 1 (2005) **Violin Concerto no. 2 (2017) *

Erich Wolfgang Korngold Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897November 29, 1957) was an Austrian-born American composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and compo ...

** Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1945) *

Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer. His most celebrated piece is the '' Symphonie espagnole'', a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, which remains a popular work in the standard repe ...

**Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 20 (1874) **'' Symphonie Espagnole'' (1874) *

Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1. He studied at the Juilliard ...

**Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 74 (2001) * Avrohom Leichtling **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 95 (1988–1991) *

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century ...

(1992) *

Karol Lipiński Karol Józef Lipiński (30 October 1790 – 16 December 1861) was a Polish music composer and virtuoso violinist active during the partitions of Poland. The Karol Lipiński University of Music in Wrocław, Poland is named after him. Life ...

**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 Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Award ...

**Violin Concerto (2019) *

Henri Marteau Henri Marteau (31 March 1874 – 3 October 1934) was a French violinist and composer, who obtained Swedish citizenship in 1915. Life and career Marteau was born in Reims. He was of German and French ancestry. His father, a Frenchman, was a well k ...

Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 18 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 regul ...

(1916) * Bohuslav Martinů ** Violin Concerto No 1 H 232b (1933) ** Violin Concerto No. 2 H 293 (1943) * Felix Mendelssohn ** Violin Concerto in D minor (1822) ** Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844) *

Edgar Meyer Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated seven times. Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegras ...

**Violin Concerto (2000) *

Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; pl, Mikołaj Miąskowski, syn Jakóbowy; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is som ...

**Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44 (1938) *

Wolfgang Amadeus 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. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

** 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 Johann Friedrich Eck, 1780–81) ** Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 271a, ''Kolb'' (Doubtful, 1777) ** Adélaïde Concerto (Forgery by

Marius Casadesus Marius Casadesus (24 October 1892 – 13 October 1981) was a French violinist and composer. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps h ...

, 1933) * Marjan Mozetich ** Affairs of the Heart: Violin Concerto (1998) *

Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...

** Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911) * Michael Nyman **Violin Concerto (2003) *

Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices fo ...

** 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 * Giovanni Battista Pergolesi **Violin Concerto in B flat major * Manuel M. Ponce **

(1943) *

Gerhard Präsent Gerhard Präsent (born 21 June 1957) is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher. Professional career Born in Graz, Präsent studied from 1976 at the Musikhochschule Graz, composition with Iván Erőd and conducting with Milan Horva ...

**Violin Concerto Op. 73 (2015) * André Previn ** Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" (2001) *

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, ...

** Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (1917) ** Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935) *

Behzad Ranjbaran Behzad Ranjbaran ( fa, بهزاد رنجبران; born 1955, in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian composer, known for his virtuosic concertos and colorful orchestral music. Ranjbaran's music draws from his cultural roots, incorporating Persian musical mo ...

(2002) * Max Reger **

in A major Op. 101 (1907–1908) *

Miklós Rózsa Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensi ...

, Op. 24 (1953) * Camille Saint-Saëns ** 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 Esa-Pekka Salonen (; born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and music di ...

** Violin Concerto (2009) *

Alfred Schnittke Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, link=no, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. Among the most performed and re ...

**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) * Arnold Schoenberg **

(1936) * Robert Schumann ** Violin Concerto, WoO 23 (1853) * Laura Schwendinger **Violin Concerto "Chiaroscuro Azzurro" * Vache Sharafyan **Concerto-Serenata for violin and strings **Con-Cor-Dance Violin Concerto #2 * Dmitri Shostakovich ** 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) * Aleksandr Shymko **Violin Concerto (2012) *

Peter Seabourne Peter Seabourne (born 1960) is an English contemporary classical composer based in Lincolnshire, England. Biography Seabourne studied at Clare College, Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and University of York with David Blake. In 1984 he was jo ...

**Violin Concerto (with string orchestra) (2018) *

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often ...

** Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904) * Maddalena Laura Sirmen ** Six Violin Concerti * Igor Stravinsky **

(1931) * Karol Szymanowski ** Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916) ** Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1932–1933) *

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**Far calls. Coming, far! for Violin and Orchestra (1980) *

Boris Tchaikovsky Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Чайко́вский; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, cha ...

**Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1969) *

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most pop ...

** Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878) * Daniel Theaker **Violin Concerto *

Henri Vieuxtemps Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps ( 17 February 18206 June 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th ce ...

** 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 * Antonio Vivaldi — many, particularly: **''

L'estro Armonico ''L'estro armonico'' (''The Harmonic Inspiration''), Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for stringed instruments by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, first published in Amsterdam in 1711. Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, and Twelve Violin ...

'', 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 Giovanni Battista Viotti (12 May 1755 – 3 March 1824) was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness. He was also a director of French and Italia ...

Violin Concerto No. 22 in A Minor 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 regul ...

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

(1939) * Henryk Wieniawski ** Violin Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 14 (1853) ** Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 (1862) * John Williams **Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1976) **TreeSong: for Violin and Orchestra (2000) *

Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. Biography Williamson was born in Sydney in 1931; his father was an A ...

**Violin Concerto (1963–1964) *

Felix Woyrsch Felix Woyrsch (8 October 1860, Opava – 20 March 1944, Altona) was a German composer and choir director. Life Woyrsch was born in Troppau, just over the Prussian border in Austrian Silesia (now Opava in the Czech Republic). He was raised in Dre ...

** Skaldische Rhapsodie in D minor, Op. 50 (1904) *

Pēteris Vasks Pēteris Vasks (born 16 April 1946) is a Latvian composer. Biography Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player wi ...

** Tālā Gaisma ("Distant Light") (1996-7) *

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and Chen Gang **

Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto ''The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto'' (), along with the Yellow River Piano Concerto, is one of the most famous Chinese works of orchestral music. It is an adaptation of an ancient legend, the ''Butterfly Lovers''. Written for a Western-style ...

(1959)

List of other works for violin and orchestra

* Béla Bartók ** Violin Rhapsody No. 1 (1929) ** Violin Rhapsody No. 2 (1928) *

** Romance No. 1 in G major, op. 40 (1798–1802) ** Romance No. 2 in F major, op. 50 (1798–1802) * Hector Berlioz **''Rêverie et Caprice'', Op. 8 (1841; 1842) * Leonard Bernstein **'' Serenade, after Plato: Symposium'' (1954) * Ernest Bloch **''Baal Shem'' (1939) *

** 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 Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of ...

** ''Poème'', op. 25 (1896) * John Corigliano **

Chaconne A chaconne (; ; es, chacona, links=no; it, ciaccona, links=no, ; earlier English: ''chacony'') is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short rep ...

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The Red Violin ''The Red Violin'' (french: Le Violon Rouge) is a 1998 drama film directed by François Girard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang. It spans four centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a mysterious red-co ...

'' * Antonín Dvořák ** Romance in F minor, op. 11 (1877) * Richard Franck ** Serenade in A major, op. 25 (1896) *

Takekuni Hirayoshi was a Japanese classical composer. Biography Takekuni Hirayoshi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Department of Music in 1961 and completed his graduate work there in 1967. He studied with Yoshio Hasegawa (長谷川良夫) and Yoshi ...

**Requiem for violin and orchestra *

Joe Hisaishi , known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. He is also known for his piano scores. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore ...

**Interior Symphony for Electric Violin and Chamber Orchestra (2015) * Jules Massenet **" Méditation" from ''

Thaïs Thaïs or Thais ( el, Θαΐς; flourished 4th century BC) was a famous Greek ''hetaira'' who accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns. Likely from Athens, she is most famous for instigating the burning of Persepolis. At the time, Thaï ...

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** 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) * Arvo Pärt **''

Fratres ' (meaning "brothers" in Latin) is a musical work by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt exemplifying his tintinnabuli style of composition. It is three-part music, written in 1977, ''without fixed instrumentation'' and has been described as a “m ...

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

Tzigane ''Tzigane'' is a rhapsodic composition by the French composer Maurice Ravel. It was commissioned by and dedicated to Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi, great-niece of the influential violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The original instrumentati ...

'' (1924) *

Laurence Rosenthal Laurence Rosenthal (born November 4, 1926) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, film, and the concert hall. Biography Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N ...

**''Prophetic Voices'' for violin, percussion and orchestra * Camille Saint-Saëns ** 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 **''

Zigeunerweisen ''Zigeunerweisen'' (''Gypsy Airs'', es, Aires gitanos, link=no), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate. It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany. Like his ...

'', op. 20 (1878) ** ''Carmen Fantasy'', op. 25 (1883) **''Miramar-Zortzico'', op. 42 (1899) **Introduction and Tarantella, op. 43 (1899) * Akira Senju **''Sai Fog'' for violin and string orchestra (1994) **''Four Seasons'' for violin and string orchestra (2004) *

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...

**Konzertstück in D major, D. 345 (1816) ** Rondo in A major, D. 438 (1816) **Polonaise in B major, D. 580 (1817) * Robert Schumann **Fantasy in C major, Op. 131 (1853) * Josef Suk ** Fantasy in G minor, Op. 24 *

**Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for violin and string orchestra (1987) *

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Sérénade mélancolique The ''Sérénade mélancolique'' in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 26 (Russian: ''Меланхолическая серенада''), was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in February 1875. It was his first work for violin and orc ...

'', Op. 26 (1875) **'' Souvenir d'un lieu cher'', Op. 42 (written for violin and piano in 1878; arranged for violin and orchestra by Alexander Glazunov in 1896) **'' Valse-Scherzo'', Op. 34 (1877) * Andrew Thomas **''

Premonitions Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a ...

'' (2017, written for violinist Claudia Schaer and North/South Ensemble) * John Williams **Markings for solo violin, strings and harp (2017) * Ralph Vaughan Williams **'' The Lark Ascending'' (1914) * Henryk Wieniawski ** 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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