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 through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire. Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of 20th-century composers, including Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and 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.
Selected list of violin concertos
The following concertos are presently found near the centre of the mainstream Western repertoire. For a more comprehensive list of violin concertos, see List of compositions for violin and orchestra.
- John Adams
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- 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)
- Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 (a reconstruction of a lost work)
- Violin Concerto for 3 violins in D major, BWV 1064 (a reconstruction of a lost work)
- Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056 (a reconstruction of a lost work)
- Samuel Barber
- Béla Bartók
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Alban Berg
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Violin Concerto (2009-10)
- Johannes Brahms
- Max Bruch
- Henri Dutilleux
- Antonín Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
- Philip Glass
- Alexander Glazunov
- Sofia Gubaidulina
- Offertorium, concerto for violin and orchestra (1980–86)
- In Tempus Praesens
- Joseph Haydn
- Hans Werner Henze
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1971)
- Violin Concerto No. 3 (1996, rev. 2002)
- Mieczysław Karłowicz
- Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902)
- Aram Khachaturian
- Violin Concerto in D minor (1940)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Édouard Lalo
- Aubert Lemeland
- Violin Concerto No. 1 to the memory of William Schuman, Op. 128 (1985)
- Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 148 (1990)
- Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 151 (1992)
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Carl Nielsen
- Niccolò Paganini
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Behzad Ranjbaran
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Robert Schumann
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Jean Sibelius
- Igor Stravinsky
- Karol Szymanowski
- Violin Concerto No. 1 Op. 35 (1917)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 Op. 61 (1932–1933)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Antonio Vivaldi — many, particularly:
- L'estro Armonico, Op. 3 (1711)—twelve concertos, No. 6 (A minor) frequently played by students
- 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
- Henri Vieuxtemps
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- Henryk Wieniawski
- Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 14
- Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Selected list of other works for violin and ensemble
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