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A violin concerto is a concerto
Concerto

The term Concerto usually refers to a three-part musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra....
 for solo violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
 (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
. Such works have been written since the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 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

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Bartók
Béla Bartók

B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
, Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, Bruch
Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
, Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, Paganini
Niccolň Paganini

Niccol? Paganini was an Italy violinist, viola, classical guitar, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique....
, Sibelius
Jean Sibelius

Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
, and Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
, Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
, and Alban Berg
Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
 (in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, with the only break coming between the second and third).






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A violin concerto is a concerto
Concerto

The term Concerto usually refers to a three-part musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra....
 for solo violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
 (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
. Such works have been written since the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 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

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
, Bartók
Béla Bartók

B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
, Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
, Bruch
Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
, Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
, Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, Paganini
Niccolň Paganini

Niccol? Paganini was an Italy violinist, viola, classical guitar, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique....
, Sibelius
Jean Sibelius

Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
, and Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
, Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
, and Alban Berg
Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
 (in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, with the only break coming between the second and third). 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

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
 rather than an orchestra—for instance, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo
Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate interval , chord s, and nonchord tones, in relation to a bass note....
, and Allan Pettersson
Allan Pettersson

Gustav Allan Pettersson was a Sweden composer. Today he is considered one of the most important Swedish composers of the 20th century.Pettersson, one of four children of a violent alcoholic blacksmith, was born at the manor of Granhammar in V?stra Ryd parish in the province of Uppland, but grew up in poor circumstances in Stockholm, where...
's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.

Selected list of violin concertos

The following concertos are presently found near the center of the mainstream Western repertoire. For a more comprehensive list of violin concertos, see List of compositions for violin and orchestra
List of compositions for violin and orchestra

This is a list of musical compositions for violin and orchestra. See entries for concerto and violin concerto for a description of related musical forms....
.

  • John Adams
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (John Adams)

      The Violin Concerto by the United States composer John Adams was written in 1993. It was premiered in 1994 by Jorja Fleezanis with the Minnesota Orchestra....
       (1993)
  • Malcolm Arnold
    Malcolm Arnold

    Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, Order of the British Empire was an England composer and Symphony.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, by age thirty his life was devoted to composition....
    • Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra
      Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra

      The Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra, Op. 77 by Malcolm Arnold was finished in 1962 in music. It is in three movement :*Allegro risoluto...
       (1962)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
      Violin Concerto in A minor (Bach)

      The Violin Concerto in A minor by J. S. Bach is a concerto in 3 movements:* Allegro moderato* Andante ? with an ostinato style theme...
       (1717–1723)
    • Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
      Violin Concerto in E major (Bach)

      The Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042, by Johann Sebastian Bach is a concerto for violin, String section and continuo in 3 movements:#Tempo#Italian tempo markings...
       (1717–1723)
    • Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043
      Double Violin Concerto (Bach)

      The Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D Minor , also known as the Double Violin Concerto, is perhaps one of the most famous works by Johann Sebastian Bach and considered among the best examples of the work of the late Baroque music period....
       (1723)
    • Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
    • Violin Concerto for 3 violins in D major, BWV 1064
    • Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056
  • Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    • Violin Concerto, op. 14
      Violin concerto (Barber)

      Samuel Barbers violin concerto, Op. 14, is a work in three movements, lasting about 22 minutes, and was completed in 1939....
       (1939)
  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)

      B?la Bart?k's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written around the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death....
       (1908)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)

      B?la Bart?k's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zolt?n Sz?kely, who requested the composition in 1936, and is a prime example of verbunkos style....
       (1938)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    • Violin Concerto in D major, op. 61
      Violin Concerto (Beethoven)

      Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written in 1806.The work was premiered on December 23, 1806 in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna....
       (1806)
  • Alban Berg
    Alban Berg

    Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (Berg)

      Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 . It is probably Berg's best-known and most frequently-performed piece....
       (1935)
  • Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    • Violin Concerto in D major, op. 77
      Violin Concerto (Brahms)

      Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is a violin concerto in three movements composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 for and dedicated to his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim....
       (1878)
  • Max Bruch
    Max Bruch

    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bruch)

      Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, is one of the most popular violin concertos in the repertoire. It continues to be performed and recorded by many violinists and is arguably Bruch's most famous composition....
       (1867)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 44
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bruch)

      Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, opus number 44 was composed around 1878 in music , and dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate . It was premiered in London by Sarasate, conducted by Bruch, in November 1878 ....
       (1878)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 58
      Violin Concerto No. 3 (Bruch)

      Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58 was composed in 1891 in music. The concerto has three movement :# List of musical terminology#A energico...
       (1891)
  • Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
    • L'Arbre des Songes (1985)
  • Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
      Violin Concerto (Dvorák)

      Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 is a concerto for violin and orchestra composed by Anton?n Dvor?k in 1879. The concerto was premiered in 1883 by Franti?ek Ondr?cek in Prague....
       (1879-80)
  • Edward Elgar
    Edward Elgar

    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order was an England composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
    • Violin Concerto in B minor, op. 61
      Violin Concerto (Elgar)

      Sir Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral works and has been described as "the greatest English contribution to the treasury of Romantic violin concertos"....
       (1910)
  • Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Glazunov

    Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher and Conducting. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the October Revolution....
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82
      Violin Concerto (Glazunov)

      The Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 by Alexander Glazunov is one of his most popular compositions. Written in 1904, the concerto was dedicated to violinist Leopold Auer, who gave the first performance at a Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg on February 15, 1905....
       (1904)
  • Joseph Joachim
    Joseph Joachim

    Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian people violinist, conducting, composer and teacher. He is regarded as one of the most influential violinists of all time....
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major
  • Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
    Mieczyslaw Karlowicz

    File:Mieczyslaw Karlowicz.PNGMieczyslaw Karlowicz was a Poland composer and conducting. He was born in Vishneva , and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician....
    • Violin Concerto in A major, op. 8
  • Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Khachaturian

    Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
    • Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 46
      Violin Concerto (Khachaturian)

      Aram Khachaturian?s Violin Concerto in D minor was completed in 1940 and dedicated to the great Russian violinist David Oistrakh, who premi?red the concerto in Moscow on November 16, 1940....
       (1940)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer....
    • Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
      Violin Concerto (Korngold)

      The Violin Concerto in D major, opus number 35, was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold in 1945 in music.The writing of the concerto following some initial persuasion from the violinist and fellow ?migr? Bronislaw Huberman....
       (1945)
  • Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    • Violin Concerto in F major, op. 20 (1874)
    • Symphonie Espagnole
      Symphonie Espagnole

      The Symphonie Espagnole is a work for violin and orchestra by Edouard Lalo, his opus number 21 in D minor. Written in 1874 for violinist Pablo de Sarasate, it was premiered in Paris, France in February of 1875....
       (1874)
  • Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann

    'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
    • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.74 (2001)
  • Karol Lipinski
    Karol Lipinski

    Karol J?zef Lipinski was a Poland virtuoso violinist and composer....
    • Violin Concerto No.1 op. 14 in F sharp minor
    • Violin Concerto No.2 "Militaire" op.21 in D major
    • Violin Concerto No.3 op.24 in E minor
    • Violin Concerto No.4 op.32 in A major
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    • Violin Concerto in D minor
      Concerto for Violin and Strings (Mendelssohn)

      The Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor was composed by Felix Mendelssohn at the age of thirteen. It has three movements.#Allegro...
       (1822)
    • Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
      Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)

      Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time....
       (1844)
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky
    Nikolai Myaskovsky

    Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony"....
    • Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 44
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K. 207
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Mozart)

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major K. 207 was originally supposed to have been composed in 1775 , along with the other four wholly authentic violin concerti....
       (1773)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Mozart)

      Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major K?chel-Verzeichnis 211 was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775. The concerto has the usual fast-slow-fast structure....
       (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216
      Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)

      The Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K?chel-Verzeichnis 216, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg in 1775 in music. Mozart was only 19 at the time....
      , Strassburg (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218
      Violin Concerto No. 4 (Mozart)

      Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major K. 218 was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775 in Salzburg. The autograph of the score is preserved in Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Krak?w....
       (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219
      Violin Concerto No. 5 (Mozart)

      The Violin concerto No. 5 in A Major was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775, premiering during the holiday season that year in Salzburg....
      , Turkish (1775), with alternative Adagio in E, K.261 (added 1776)
  • Carl Nielsen
    Carl Nielsen

    Carl August Nielsen was a conducting, violinist, and composer from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in Britain," noted the critic Alex Ross in 2008 in The New Yorker, and rising young conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel and Alan G...
    • Violin Concerto, op. 33 (1911)
  • Niccolň Paganini
    Niccolň Paganini

    Niccol? Paganini was an Italy violinist, viola, classical guitar, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, op. 6, MS 21
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Paganini)

      The Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 6, was composed by Niccol? Paganini in Italy, probably between 1817 and 1818. The concerto reveals that Paganini's technical wizardry was fully developed....
       (ca. 1811–17)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, op. 7, MS 48
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Paganini)

      The Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7, was composed by Niccol? Paganini in Italy in 1826. In his Second Concerto, Paganini holds back on the demonstration of virtuosity in favour of greater individuality in the melodic style....
      , La Campanella (1826)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major, MS 50
      Violin Concerto No. 3 (Paganini)

      The Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major was composed by Niccol? Paganini in 1826. On 12 December 1826, Paganini wrote from Naples to his friend L. G....
       (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
  • Andre Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
    • Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, op. 19
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)

      Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, opus number 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler ....
       (1917)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 63
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev)

      The Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, opus number 63, written in 1935 by Sergei Prokofiev, is a work in three movement s:#Allegro moderato#Andante assai...
       (1935)
  • Max Reger
    Max Reger

    Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, Conducting, pianist, organist, and teacher....
    • Violin Concerto in A Major op. 101 (1907-8)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    • 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
      Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

      The Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, by Camille Saint-Sa?ns, is a Romantic music piece for violin and orchestra. Saint-Sa?ns finished and dedicated the concerto in 1880 to fellow composer-virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate, who played the solo part at the premiere....
       (1880)
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)

      The Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg dates from Schoenberg's time in the United States, where he had moved in 1933 to escape the Nazis....
       (1936)
  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    • Violin Concerto, WoO 23
      Violin Concerto (Schumann)

      Robert Schumann?s Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 was his only violin concerto and one of his last significant compositions, and one that remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written....
       (1853)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 77
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

      The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 77, was originally written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947 - 1948. He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could not be performed....
       (1948, rev. 1955 as op. 99)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, op. 129
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)

      The Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Opus 129, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last concerto. He wrote it in the spring of 1967 as an early 60th birthday present for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh....
       (1967)
  • Jean Sibelius
    Jean Sibelius

    Johan Julius Christian Sibelius was a Finland composer of the later Romantic music whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity....
  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (Stravinsky)

      Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D is a Neoclassicism violin concerto in four movements, composed in the summer of 1931 and premiered on October 23, 1931....
       (1931)
  • Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Szymanowski

    Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Poland composer and pianist....
    • Violin Concerto No.1, Op.35
    • Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    • Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35
      Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)

      The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin....
       (1878)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps
    Henri Vieuxtemps

    Henri Fran?ois Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgium composer and violin...
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, op. 10 (1840)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in F sharp 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
      Violin Concerto No. 5 (Vieuxtemps)

      The Violin Concerto No.5 in A minor, Op. 37, by Henri Vieuxtemps was composed in 1861. This remains Vieuxtemps' most popular violin concerto. The second movement borrows from "O? peut-on ?tre mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?" in Andr? Gr?try opera Lucile ....
      , 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
    Antonio Vivaldi

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
     - many, particularly:
    • L'estro Armonico
      L'estro Armonico

      L'estro Armonico opus number 3 is a collection of twelve concertos for 1, 2 and 4 violins written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1711. It largely augmented the reputation of Vivaldi as Il Prete Rosso; ....
      , op. 3 (1711)—twelve concertos
    • La stravaganza, op. 4 (ca. 1714)
    • The Four Seasons
      The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

      The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music....
       (ca. 1725)—four concertos, the first four numbers of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, op. 8
  • William Walton
    William Walton

    Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin Concerto (Walton)

      The Violin Concerto of William Walton was written in 1938 in music–1939 in music and reorchestrated in 1943. It has three movements:#Tempo#basic tempo markings tranquillo...
       (1939)
  • Henryk Wieniawski
    Henryk Wieniawski

    Henryk Wieniawski was a Poland violinist and composer....
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 14
      Violin Concerto No. 1 (Wieniawski)

      Violin Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 14, by Poland violin virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski was first performed on October 27 1853 in Leipzig. The score is dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia....
       (1853)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, op. 22
      Violin Concerto No. 2 (Wieniawski)

      Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22, by the Poland violin virtuoso, Henryk Wieniawski, may have been started in 1856, but the first performance did not take place until November 27, 1862, when he played it in St....
       (1862)
  • Malcolm Williamson
    Malcolm Williamson

    Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson Order of Australia , Order of the British Empire was an Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 to 2003....
    • Violin Concerto (1963-64)


Selected list of other works for violin and ensemble

  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
    • Violin Rhapsody No. 1
    • Violin Rhapsody No. 2
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    • Romance No. 1 in G major, op. 40 (1798–1802)
    • Romance No. 2 in F major, op. 50 (1798–1802)
  • Hector Berlioz
    Hector Berlioz

    Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
    • Ręverie et Caprice
  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
    • Serenade, after Plato
      Plato

      Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
      's Symposium (1954)
  • Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch was a Switzerland-born United States composer....
    • Baal Shem
      Baal Shem

      Baal Shem in Hebrew language translates as "Master of the Name", and is almost always used in reference to Israel ben Eliezer, the Rabbi who founded Hasidic Judaism and was called the Baal Shem Tov....
  • Max Bruch
    Max Bruch

    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic music composer and Conducting who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin repertoire....
    • Romance in A minor, op. 42 (1874)
    • Scottish Fantasy, op. 46 (1880)
    • Adagio Appassionato in C sharp minor, op. 57 (1890)
    • Schwedische Tanze, op. 63/2 (1892)
    • In memoriam, op. 65 (1893)
    • Serenade in A minor, op. 75
      Violin Serenade (Bruch)

      Max Bruch's Serenade in A minor, Op. 75 is a composition for violin and orchestra and was composed in 1900 in music. The concerto has four movement :...
       (1899–1900)
    • Konzertstück in F sharp minor, op. 84 (ca. 1911)
  • Ernest Chausson
    Ernest Chausson

    Am?d?e-Ernest Chausson was a France Romantic music composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish....
    • Počme, op. 25 (1896)
  • John Corigliano
    John Corigliano

    John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York....
    • Chaconne
      Chaconne

      In music, a chaconne is a musical form whose primary formal feature involves Variation on a repeated short harmonic progression.Originally a quick dance-song which emerged during the late 16th century in Spain culture, possibly from the New World, the chaconne was characterized by suggestive movements and mocking texts.....
       from "The Red Violin
      The Red Violin

      The Red Violin , is a 1998 Canada drama film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners....
      "
  • Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    • Romance in F minor, op. 11 (1877)
  • Édouard Lalo
    Édouard Lalo

    ?douard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a France composer of Spanish descent....
    • Symphonie Espagnole
      Symphonie Espagnole

      The Symphonie Espagnole is a work for violin and orchestra by Edouard Lalo, his opus number 21 in D minor. Written in 1874 for violinist Pablo de Sarasate, it was premiered in Paris, France in February of 1875....
      , op. 21 (1874)
  • Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet

    Jules Massenet was a France composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era....
    • Méditation from Thaďs
      Meditation from Thais

      Meditation from Tha?s M?ditation comes from the opera Tha?s written by French composer Jules Massenet in 1893. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra....
       (1894)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    • Concertone in C major, for two violins and orchestra, K. 190 (1774)
    • Adagio in E major, K. 261
      Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra (Mozart)

      The Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra, K?chel-Verzeichnis 261, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1776 in music. It was probably a replacement movement for the original slow movement of his Violin Concerto No....
       (1776)
    • Rondo in B flat major, K. 261a (1776)
    • Rondo in C major, K. 373 (1781)
  • Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt

    Arvo P?rt , is an Estonian classical composer. P?rt works in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fitting into European-American classical post-modernism rather than so-called world music....
    • Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion (1992)
    • Darf ich... for violin, bells and string orchestra (1995/1999)
  • Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
    • Tzigane
      Tzigane (Ravel)

      "Tzigane" also means "gypsy": see Gypsy .Tzigane is a rhapsody composition by the France composer Maurice Ravel. It was originally written for violin with accompaniment by luth?al in 1924, and dedicated to the Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Ar?nyi....
       (1924)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    Charles-Camille Saint-Sa?ns was a French composer, organist, Conductor , and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre , Samson and Delilah , Havanaise , Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , and his Symphony No....
    • Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, op. 28
      Introduction and Rondo capriccioso (Saint-Saëns)

      The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor , opus number 28, is a composition for violin and orchestra written in 1863 in music by Camille Saint-Sa?ns for the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate....
       (1863)
    • Romance in C major, op. 48 (1874)
    • Morceau de concert in G major, op. 62 (1880)
    • Havanaise in E major, op. 83
      Havanaise (Saint-Saëns)

      The Havanaise in E major , opus number 83, is a composition for violin and orchestra based on the habanera rhythm, written in 1887 in music by Camille Saint-Sa?ns....
       (1887)
    • Caprice andalous in G major, op. 122 (1904)
  • Pablo de Sarasate
    Pablo de Sarasate

    Pablo Mart?n Melit?n de Sarasate y Navascu?s...
    • Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 (1878)
    • Carmen Fantasy, op. 25 (1883)
    • Navarra for two violins and orchestra, op. 33 (1889)
    • Miramar-Zortzico, op. 42 (1899)
    • Introduction and Tarantella, op. 43 (1899)
  • Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    • Konzertstück in D major, D. 345 (1816)
    • Rondo in A major, D. 438 (1816)
    • Polonaise in B flat major, D. 580 (1817)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
    • Sérénade mélancolique
    • Souvenir d'un lieu cher
      Souvenir d'un lieu cher

      Souvenir d?un lieu cher , Op. 42, for violin and piano, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between March and May 1878. It consists of three movements:...
       (written for violin and piano in 1878; arranged for violin and orchestra by Alexander Glazunov
      Alexander Glazunov

      Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer, music teacher and Conducting. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the October Revolution....
       in 1896)
    • Valse-Scherzo
  • Daniel Theaker
    Daniel Theaker

    Daniel George Theaker is a Neoromanticism composer, Conducting and woodwind instrumentalist. He is a self-described champion of the bass oboe and heckelphone, and a practitioner of the "Elastic scoring" orchestration techniques first conceived by Percy Grainger....
    • Violin Concerto
      Violin concerto

      A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written since the Baroque music period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day....
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
    • The Lark Ascending
      The Lark Ascending

      The Lark Ascending is a popular piece for violin and orchestra, written in 1914 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....
       (1914)
  • Henryk Wieniawski
    Henryk Wieniawski

    Henryk Wieniawski was a Poland violinist and composer....
    • Légende in G minor, op. 17 (1859)
    • Fantasy brillante on Gounod's "Faust", op.20


See also


  • Violin
    Violin

    The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
  • Violin sonata
    Violin sonata

    A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque music....
  • Piano trio
    Piano trio

    A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in European classical music chamber music....
  • Bassoon concerto
    Bassoon concerto

    A bassoon concerto is a concerto for bassoon and orchestra. Some of the more famous bassoon concertos are:*Franz Danzi Bassoon Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 in G Minor, C Major...
  • Clarinet concerto
    Clarinet concerto

    A clarinet concerto is a concerto for clarinet and orchestra . Albert Rice has identified a work by Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli as possibly the earliest known concerto for solo clarinet; its score appears to be titled "Concerto per Clareto" and may date from 1733....
  • Concerto for orchestra
    Concerto for Orchestra

    Although a concerto is usually a piece of music for one or more solo musical instrument accompanied by a full orchestra, several composers have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra....
  • Flute concerto
    Flute concerto

    A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque music period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day....
  • Harpsichord concerto
    Harpsichord concerto

    A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano; see piano concerto....
  • Oboe concerto
    Oboe concerto

    A number of concertos have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument, and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, band, or similar large ensemble....
  • Bass oboe concerto
    Bass oboe concerto

    The bass oboe, a relative of the oboe having the same note compass as the latter, is able to play any work written for oboe - it will, however, sound an octave lower....
  • Piano concerto
    Piano concerto

    A piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano....
  • Viola concerto
    Viola concerto

    The viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments, usually a full orchestra or string orchestra but sometimes smaller....
  • Violoncello concerto
    Violoncello concerto

    A cello concerto is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier....
  • Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
    Double Concerto for Violin and Cello

    This is a list of musical compositions for violin, cello and orchestra. Please see the related entries for concerto, cello and violoncello concerto for discussion of typical forms and topics....