Violin concerto

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 (1731) - for two violins and orchestra
B�la Bart�k
- 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)
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)
Paul Hindemith
- Violin Concerto (1939)
Gy�rgy 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)
Niccol� Paganini
- Violin Concerto No. 1
Sergei Prokofiev
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1917)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1935)
Camille Saint-Sa�ns
- 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)
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