Violin Concertos 𝄞

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Jean Sibelius

Antonín Dvořák

Camille Saint-Saëns

Max Bruch

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Aram Chatsjatoerjan

Dmitri Sjostakovitsj

Robert Schumann

Johannes Brahms

Edward Elgar

Sergej Prokofiev

Igor Stravinsky

Béla Bartók

Benjamin Britten

Arnold Schönberg

William Walton

György Ligeti

Henryk Wieniawski

Alban Berg

Henri Vieuxtemps

This is just a selection of composers. There are probably many more, but I've made a selection of composers, I think are worth mentioning.

A violin concerto is a composition for solo violin and orchestra
The music usually consists of three parts: a fast part, then a slow part and finally another fast part.
The first part is often in sonata form and the orchestra often introduces the most important themes, on which the soloist repeats these themes
He also often plays a virtuoso cadence towards the end of the piece.

Vivaldi established its reputation in 1711 with the collection L'Estro Armonico. These concerts for one or more violins and string orchestra are brilliant and capricious; at the same time, they determined once and for all how the soloist(s) and the orchestra relate to each other. None other than Bach arranged several of these concerts for harpsichord and organ.

In the 19th century the concert was often a vehicle for superficial virtuosity. The more serious romantics took Beethoven's introspective Violin Concerto as a model.

Beethoven wrote only one violin concerto, but what kind of one. As if he wanted to incorporate the energy and musical ideas for ten violin concerts in a single concert. Not a joke, but an exciting showdown between orchestra and violinist.

Important concerts are those of Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruch and Tchaikovsky. Also worth mentioning is Berlioz's programmatic Harold and Italy, in which the viola expresses the hero of the same name.

In the 20th century the violin/viola concerto was brought to great heights by, among others, Bartók, Elgar, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Walton, Britten and Ligeti.