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A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such works have been written from 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, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky. 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 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 rather than an orchestra—for instance, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, originally scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and Allan Pettersson's first concerto, for violin and string quartet.
[edit] 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.
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- 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
- Max Reger
- Violin Concerto in A Major op. 101 (1907-8)
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Robert Schumann
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Henri Vieuxtemps
- 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, 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, 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
- William Walton
- Henryk Wieniawski
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[edit] Selected list of other works for violin and ensemble
- Béla Bartók
- Violin Rhapsody No. 1
- Violin Rhapsody No. 2
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Hector Berlioz
- Leonard Bernstein
- Ernest Bloch
- Max Bruch
- 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 (1899–1900)
- Konzertstück in F sharp minor, op. 84 (ca. 1911)
- Ernest Chausson
- John Corigliano
- Antonín Dvořák
- Romance in F minor, op. 11 (1877)
- Édouard Lalo
- Jules Massenet
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Concertone in C major, for two violins and orchestra, K. 190 (1774)
- Adagio in E major, K. 261 (1776)
- Rondo in B flat major, K. 261a (1776)
- Rondo in C major, K. 373 (1781)
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