Violin Concerto - Selected List of Violin Concertos

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
    • Violin Concerto (1993)
    • The Dharma at Big Sur (2003)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939)
  • Béla Bartók
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806)
  • Alban Berg
    • Violin Concerto "To the memory of an angel" (1935)
  • Johannes Brahms
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878)
  • Max Bruch
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1867)
  • Antonín Dvořák
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–1880)
  • Edward Elgar
    • Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910)
  • Philip Glass
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1987)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 (2009)
  • Alexander Glazunov
    • Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 (1904)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
    • Offertorium, concerto for violin and orchestra (1980–86)
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major (1760)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major
    • Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major
  • Hans Werner Henze
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 (1971)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 (1996, rev. 2002)
  • Aram Khachaturian
    • Violin Concerto in D minor (1940)
  • Édouard Lalo
    • Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21 (1875)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 207 (1773)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211 (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, Strassburg (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218 (1775)
    • Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, Turkish (1775), with alternative Adagio in E, K.261 (added 1776)
  • Carl Nielsen
    • Violin Concerto (1911)
  • 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. 5 in A minor (1830)
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (1917)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 58 (1858)
    • Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 (1880)
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    • Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1936)
  • Robert Schumann
    • Violin Concerto, WoO 23 (1853)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (1948, rev. 1955 as Op. 99)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 129 (1967)
  • Jean Sibelius
    • Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878)
  • 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
    • Violin Concerto No. 5 (Vieuxtemps) in A minor Op. 37

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