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 ".

Berg had interrupted the orchestration of Lulu because of an unexpected ( and financially much-needed ) commission from the Russian-American violinist Louis Krasner for a Violin Concerto ( 1935 ).

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.

John Adams, Violin Concerto, III " Toccare " ( 1993 )

" The third movement of the Violin Concerto, titled " Toccare " portrays this transition.

* ( 1993 ) Violin Concerto, winner of the 1995 Grawemeyer Award for Music composition

* Grawemeyer Award in Musical Composition for Violin Concerto ( 1995 )

* Franz Liszt – Six Grandes Études de Paganini, S. 141 for solo piano ( 1851 ) ( virtuoso arrangements of 5 caprices, including the 24th, and La Campanella from Violin Concerto No. 2 )

* 1928 – Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.

The exceptions to this are his Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto, and Piano Concerto No. 4, which each specify a single flute.

Glass in particular has recently turned to conventional orchestras in works like the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and the Violin Concerto No. 2.

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

When Manon died of polio at age 18, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her ( it is inscribed " to the memory of an angel ").

* March 13 – The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, with Ferdinand David as soloist.

* Concerto for Violin and Cello in D minor

He wrote one concerto each for flute, oboe ( later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2 ), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice.

Bach's E Major Violin Concerto.

Beethoven ’ s Violin Concerto is unique in its scale and melodic qualities.

His admiration for American jazz is echoed in L ' enfant et les sortilèges, the Violin Sonata and the Piano Concerto in G, while the Russian school of music inspired homage in " À la manière de Borodin " and the orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Despite protests from French and Italian composers, by the end of the first season Habeneck and the orchestra had also performed the Fifth Symphony, the Third Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto as well as other works.

A Sonata For Violin And Piano, called `` Bella Bella '', by Robert Fleming, was given its first United States performance.

In 1944, he was also commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin.

" At the request of Nurmi, who enjoyed classical music and played the violin, Konsta Jylhä's Vaiennut viulu ( The Silenced Violin ) was played during the ceremony.

Mozart, in his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, wrote the viola part in D major and specified that the viola's strings were to be raised in pitch by a semitone: his intention was probably to give the viola a brighter tone so as to avoid it being overpowered by the rest of the ensemble.

A more general interest in musical instruments was sparked by his discovery at the Saint-Ouen flea market of a Boris Vian Trumpet Violin

The period in America was also remarkable for a number of orchestral works, including the Violin Concerto Op.

The most famous include two concertos for horn, which are still part of the standard repertoire of most horn soloists ; a Violin Concerto in D minor ; the Burleske for piano and orchestra ; the tone poem Don Quixote for cello, viola and orchestra ; the well-known late Oboe Concerto in D major ; and the Duet-Concertino for bassoon, clarinet and orchestra, which was one of his last works ( 1947 ).

The Violin Concerto was also recorded by Hindemith for Decca / London, with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra with David Oistrakh as soloist.

The first recording was a release by ECM Records in 1980 along with Octet and a much older piece: Violin Phase.

* The Camera was used as a location in the films Young Sherlock Holmes ( 1985 ), Opium Wars ( Yapian zhanzheng ) ( 1997 ), The Saint ( 1997 ), and The Red Violin ( 1998 ).

The Violin Concerto by the American composer John Adams was written in 1993.

The Ravanahatha was played on one string which was 22 inches long encompassing the 3 Octaves. Whereas the Violin encompasses the 3 octaves on 4 strings with a finger board which is 5 1 / 4th inches long. This 5 1 / 4th when multiplied by 4 is 21 inches which was the size of the Ravan Hatta. Both are played with a bow.

The 1930s was even more fruitful, with the Concerto for Two Pianos, Choeurs, Saxophones and Orchestra, the Violin Concerto, the operas Zoulaïna and Le marin de Bolivar, and her masterwork, La cantate de Narcisse in collaboration with Paul Valéry.

This night I was invited by Mr. Rog: L ' Estrange to the incomperable Lubicer on the Violin, his variety upon a few notes & plaine ground with that dexterity, as was admirable, & though a very young man, yet so perfect & skillful as there was nothing so crosse & perplext, which being by our Artists, brought to him, which he did not at first sight, with ravishing sweetenesse & improvements, play off, to the astonishment of our best Masters: In Summ, he plaid on that single Instrument a full Consort, so as the rest, flung-downe their Instruments, as acknowledging a victory.

On November 13, 1948, there was an all-Brahms program, including the Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in A minor ( Mischa Mischakoff, violin ; Frank Miller, cello ); Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op.

* May 30 – Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Basel, 50 years after it was composed

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935 ( the score is dated August 11, 1935 ).

Brahms was also attracted to the exoticism of Hungarian folk music, and used it in such pieces as his famous ' Hungarian Dances ', the final movement of his Violin Concerto, and the ' Rondo alla zingarese ' from his Piano Quartet No. 1, op.

Perhaps due to the Violin Concerto's lack of success at its premiere, and at the request of Muzio Clementi, Beethoven revised it in a version for piano and orchestra, which was later published as Opus 61a.

The work was at least in part inspired by Bartók's unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer-in a letter to her, he called the first movement a " funeral dirge " and its opening notes trace a motif which first appeared in his Violin Concerto No. 1, a work dedicated to Geyer and suppressed by Bartók for many years.

3, Violin Concerto in One Movement, in G minor ( 1851 ); dedicated to Franz Liszt

5, Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Lindenrauschen, Abendglocken, Ballade ; dedicated to Gisela von Arnim

When Tchaikovsky came to me one evening, about thirty years ago thirty-four, and presented me with a roll of music, great was my astonishment on finding this proved to be the Violin Concerto, dedicated to me, completed and already in print.

* Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major ( 1929, dedicated to Albert Sammons )

* Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major ( 1932, dedicated to Arthur Caterall )

Jean Sibelius originally dedicated his Violin Concerto to Burmester, who promised to play the concerto in Berlin.

Kirkpatrick also played modern music, including Quincy Porter's Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord, and the Double Concerto for Harpsichord, Piano and Chamber Orchestra by Elliott Carter, which was dedicated to him.

He retired as a violinist in 1949, but returned in 1952 to give the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Gian Carlo Menotti, which is dedicated to him.

The Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major of Ludwig van Beethoven, the third of his Opus 30 set, was written between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

* Violin Sonata No. 9 ( Beethoven ), an 1803 work written by Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer

His Violin Concerto of 1930 was dedicated to the violinist Adila Fachiri.

It was dedicated to and premiered by Robert Hausmann, who later co-premiered Johannes Brahms's Double Concerto with Joseph Joachim, the dedicatee of Bruch's most famous work, the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.

In 1988, under the impression of Spitak earthquake, Arutiunian composed the Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in 4 movements ( dedicated to Ruben Aharonyan ).

They include an early Symphony for small orchestra ( 1933 ), an Ouvertüre in honour of Schoenberg ’ s 70th birthday ( 1944 ), a Piano Concerto ( 1947, later revised as a Concerto for piano with chamber orchestra ), a Violin Concerto ( 1953 – 55, though this remained in pencil score ), Prelude and Variations dedicated to Stravinsky ( 1962 ), Ricercata for orchestra ( 1965 ), Cantatas on poems of Nietzsche ( 1951 ) and on German folksong texts ( 1964 ), string quartets, trios, works for violin and piano, solo piano pieces, several sets of songs and some arrangements of Irish folksongs.

His first Violin Sonata in G minor was dedicated to Joseph Joachim who obviously asked to perform it when Kahn was still a young student in Berlin, and even Clara Schumann mentioned this Sonata in her diary.

Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 ( written 1937 – 38 ) was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely, who requested the composition in 1936 ,< ref name =" supraphon. cz "> Sleeve note of the Supraphon CD ( SU 3682-2011 )

Beethoven was impressed, and dedicated his great Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major ( Op. 47 ) to Bridgetower, with the goodheartedly mocking dedication Sonata per un mulattico lunatico.

On the other hand, a New York Times critic in 1932 called the Duo for violin and cello ( 1925 ) " long-winded and even insincere ", while a performance in 2012 noted it was dedicated to Janacek, evokes Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello and " blends folk and contemporary elements " while employing " a range of sonorities and effects like dramatic pizzicatos " while " vivacious Hungarian fiddle playing enlivens the Zingaresca movement ".

In 2010 he played the premiere of James MacMillan Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gergiev which was dedicated to him.