Violin concerto - Definition and Overview

A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin and orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period when the solo concerto form was first developed up to the present day. Many major composers have provided examples, with the best known including those by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.

List of violin concerti

• John Adams
  • Violin Concerto (1993)
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Violin Concerto in A minor
  • Violin Concerto in E major
  • Double Violin Concerto (1717-1723) - for two violins and orchestra
• Samuel Barber
  • Violin Concerto op. 14 (1939)
• Béla Bartók
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Concerto (1806)
• Alban Berg
  • Violin Concerto (1935)
• Johannes Brahms
  • Violin Concerto (1878)
• Benjamin Britten
  • Violin Concerto op. 15 (1939, rev. 1954, 1965)
• Max Bruch - wrote three violin concerti, with the first by far the best known
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1867)
• Edward Elgar
  • Violin Concerto (1910)
• Philip Glass
  • Violin Concerto (1987)
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Concerto funèbre for violin and strings
• Hamilton Harty
  • Violin Concerto (1908)
• Paul Hindemith
  • Kammermusik no. 4 (1924-5)
  • Violin Concerto (1939)
• Édouard Lalo Several violin concerti including
  • Violin concerto in F, op. 20
  • Symphonie Espagnole (Lalo) op. 21
• György Ligeti
  • Violin Concerto (1992)

• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Violin Concerto (1844)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (no later than 1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (no later than 1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 (1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 4 (1775)
  • Violin Concerto No. 5 (1775)
• Niccolò Paganini
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Violin Concerto No. 3
  • Violin Concerto No. 4
  • Violin Concerto No. 5
  • Violin Concerto No. 6(posthumous)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1917)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1935)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1859)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1858)
  • Violin Concerto No. 3 (1880)
• Arnold Schoenberg
  • Violin Concerto (1936)
• Robert Schumann
  • Violin Concerto (1853)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1967)
• Jean Sibelius
  • Violin Concerto (1904)
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Violin Concerto (1931)
• Karol Szymanowski
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 35 (1916)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2 op. 61 (1933)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Violin Concerto (1878)
• Antonio Vivaldi - wrote many violin concerti, including:
  • The Four Seasons - Four concerti, the first four numbers of Vivaldi's opus eight
  • L'estro armonico (1711) - Twelve concerti for various combinations of four violins and cello
• William Walton
  • Violin Concerto (1939)
• Henryk Wieniawski
  • Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 14 (1853)
  • Violin Concerto No. 2, op. 22 (1862)