The theme of angst is portrayed in Mahler's Symphony No. 6 (" The Tragic ") and in Alban Berg's poignant Violin Concerto dedicated, " To the memory of an angel ".

* Concerto for alphorn No. 2 ( with flute, string orchestra & percussion ) ( 1983 ) by Daetwyler

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

In 1945, Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No. 3, a graceful and almost neo-classical work, as a surprise 42nd birthday present for Ditta, but he died just over a month before her birthday, with the scoring not quite finished.

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1859.

He had been composing steadily throughout the 1850s and 60s, but his music had evoked divided critical responses, and the Piano Concerto No. 1 had been badly received in some of its early performances.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1881, in Pest.

Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

* Flute Concerto No. 1 in C major, WK 46

* Flute Concerto No. 2 in E minor, WK 47

* Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major, WK 48

* Flute Concerto No. 4 in C major, WK 49

* Flute Concerto No. 5 in G major, WK 50

* Flute Concerto No. 6 in C major, WK 51

* Flute Concerto No. 7 in D major, WK 59

Perhaps the most frequently-performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6 ; probably his most widely-known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.

* Symphonic Concerto for string orchestra and soprano ( 1938 ; later partly used in Symphony No. 4 )

* Symphony No. 4 for string orchestra ( 1947-8 ) – adapted from Symphonic Concerto for strings

* Symphony No. 5, Symphonie concertante ( 1950 ) – adapted from Concerto for wind and double basses

* Concerto for wind instruments and solo trumpet ( 1933 ); recomposed as Concerto for wind instruments and double basses ( 1948-9 ), whence Symphony No. 5

In Frankfurt, too, he directed the Museum and Opera House concerts which, in addition to the standard repertoire, featured novelties like Erdmann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

And in the Prokofieff C major Piano Concerto, with Zadel Skolovsky as soloist, he was an admirable partner.

The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

Most recently the 2008 movie Iron Man used the Larghetto movement from Salieri's Piano Concerto in C major.

Concerto Grosso.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

Concerto for Orchestra quickly became Bartók's most popular work, although he did not live to see its full impact.

He had sketched his Viola Concerto, but had barely started the scoring at his death.

The Third Piano Concerto was nearly finished at his death.

For his Viola Concerto, Bartok had completed only the viola part and sketches of the orchestral part.

György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.

Some popular solos and concerti, such as the Koussevitsky Concerto are available in both solo and orchestral tuning arrangements.

Alfred Schnittke also used electric guitar in several works, like the " Requiem ", " Concerto Grosso N ° 2 " and " Symphony N ° 1 ".

In 1914, Prokofiev finished his career at the Conservatory by entering the so-called ' battle of the pianos ', a competition open to the five best piano students for which the prize was a Schreder grand piano: Prokofiev won by performing his own Piano Concerto No. 1.

This symphony was also an exact contemporary of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op.

* October 25 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

* R 8. 10 – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C major

* Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op.

* Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op.

He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 ( Organ Symphony ).

* Noah D. Taylor: Concerto No. 1, for Marimba and Orchestra ( 2003 )

* Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eliahu Inbal and featuring Claudio Arrau on piano ( UK: Philips, 1968 ).

In recent years, several notable classic music composers, conductors and musicians have been performing various orchestral versions of Emerson ’ s compositions, such as “ Tarkus ” and “ Piano Concerto No. 1 ”, around the world.

In pieces such as the Bernhard Molique " Concerto No 1 in G for concertina and orchestra ", or Percy Grainger's " Shepherd's Hey ", four, five and six note chords are not uncommon, and would be difficult or impossible to play without using all the fingers.

Klavierübung part 1 was the six partitas, part 2 the Italian Concerto and French Overture, and part 3 a series of chorale preludes for organ framed by a prelude and fugue in E major.

His remarkably mature Horn Concerto No. 1, Op.

* Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op.

Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.

1 ( 1922 ), Luciano Berio's Passaggio, which uses five, and the Violin Concerto of György Ligeti, as well as pieces by Cornelius Cardew, Alberto Ginastera, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Other examples of nocturnes include the one for orchestra from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1848 ), the set of three for orchestra and female choir by Claude Debussy ( who also wrote one for solo piano ) and the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 ( 1948 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich.

* Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major, Op.