List of compositions for violin and orchestra

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Jean-Baptiste Accolay

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1868)

Joseph Achron

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1927)

Lee Actor

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2005)

John Adams

Violin Concerto (1993)

Dharma at Big Sur (2003)

Thomas Adès

Concentric Paths, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2005)

Kalevi Aho

Violin Concerto No.1 (1981)

Violin Concert No. 2 (2015)

Necil Kazım Akses

Violin Concerto (1972)

William Alwyn

Violin Concerto (1939)

Hendrik Andriessen

Violin Concerto (1969)

Jurriaan Andriessen

Violin Concerto (1992)

George Antheil

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1946)

Malcolm Arnold

Concerto for two violins and string orchestra. Op. 77

Lera Auerbach

Violin Concerto No. 1 (2003)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (2004)

"De Profundis" Violin Concerto No. 3 (2015)

"The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie" for Violin, Choir and Orchestra (2016)

Tor Aulin

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (1891)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1893)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in C minor (1906)

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Grażyna Bacewicz

Seven violin concertos (1937–1965)

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

Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056

Henk Badings

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1928)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1935)

Violin Concerto No. 3 (1944)

Violin Concerto No. 4 (1947)

Double Violin Concerto No. 1 (1954)

Double Violin Concerto No. 2 (1969)

Leonardo Balada

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1982)

Osvaldas Balakauskas

Concerto RK (1997)

Concerto Brio (1999)

Samuel Barber

Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1939)

Béla Bartók

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)

Mason Bates

Violin Concerto (2012)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806)

Paul Ben-Haim

Violin Concerto (1960)

Alban Berg

Violin Concerto (1935)

Erik Bergman

Violin Concerto, Op. 99 (1984)

William Bergsma

Violin Concerto (1965)

Luciano Berio

Violin Concerto

Charles de Bériot

Nine violin concertos

Franz Berwald

Violin Concerto in C-sharp minor (1820)

Bruno Bjelinski

Violin Concerto (1952)

Boris Blacher

Violin Concerto (1948)

Ernest Bloch

Violin Concerto in A minor (1938)

Karl Boelter

Violin Concerto (1999)

Rob du Bois

Concerto for violin and orchestra (1975)

Concerto for two violins and orchestra (1979)

Corentin Boissier

"The Intemporal", concert(in)o for violin and (chamber) orchestra in D minor (2010)

Nimrod Borenstein

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op. 60 (2013)

Hakon Børresen

Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 11 (1904)

Hendrik Bouman

Violin Concerto in D major for Simon Standage (2008)([1])

Brian Boydell

Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1953–54)

Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 (1878)

Matija Bravničar

Violin Concerto (1962)

Johannes Bernardus van Bree

Violin Concerto

Havergal Brian

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major (no. 1 lost) (1934–5)

Benjamin Britten

Violin Concerto, Op. 15 (1939, rev. 1954, 1965)

Mikhail Bronner

Violin Concerto 'Lonely Voice' (1992)

Violin Concerto 'Heaven's Gate' (2001)

Max Bruch

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 (1867)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44 (1878)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58 (1891)

Willy Burkhard

Violin Concerto, Op. 69 (1943)

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Elliott Carter

Violin Concerto (1990)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1931)

Carlos Chávez

Violin Concerto (1950)

Chen Gang and He Zhanhao

Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto

Gordon Chin

Violin Concerto No. 1(1998)

Formosa Seasons for Violin and Strings (2001)

Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (2002)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (2003)

Unsuk Chin

Violin Concerto (2002)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Violin Concerto Op.80 (1912)

Julius Conus

Violin Concerto in E minor (1898)

Roque Cordero

Violin Concerto (1962)

Paul Creston

Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 65 (1956) [2]

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 78 (1960)

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Michael Daugherty

Fire and Blood, concerto for violin and orchestra (2003)

Fallingwater, concerto for violin and string orchestra (2013)

Peter Maxwell Davies

Violin Concerto (1985)

Frederick Delius

Violin Concerto (1916)

David Diamond

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1937)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1947)

Violin Concerto No. 3 (1976)

Albert Dietrich

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 30

Charles Dieupart

Concerto in A major for violin, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, and basso continuo

Concerto in B♭ major for 2 violins, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, and basso continuo

Ernő Dohnányi

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 27 (1915)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 43 (1949–50)

Zsolt Durkó

Violin Concerto

Henri Dutilleux

L'arbre des songes – Violin Concerto (1985)

Sur un même accord – Nocturne for Violin and Orchestra (2002)

Antonín Dvořák

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879–80)

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Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

Violin Concerto for Solo Violin

Edward Elgar

Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 (1910)

Anders Eliasson

Violin Concerto Solitary Journey (2011; premiered by Ulf Wallin)

Federico Elizalde

Violin Concerto (1944; premiered by Ginette Neveu)

Heino Eller

Violin Concerto (1933, rev. 1965)

Einar Englund

Violin Concerto (1981)

Iván Eröd

Violin Concerto op. 15 (1973)

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Johann Friedrich Fasch

Violin Concerto in A major, Fwv L:A 1

Violin Concerto in A major, Fwv L:A 2

Violin Concerto in A major, Fwv L:A 3

Violin Concerto in A minor, Fwv L:a 2

Violin Concerto in B♭ major, Fwv L:B 2

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 2

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 3

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 4

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 4a

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 5

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 6

Violin Concerto in D major. Fwv L:D 7

Violin Concerto in D major, Fwv L:D 8

Violin Concerto in F major, Fwv L:F 2

Concerto for violin, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, continuo in G major, Fwv L:G 4

Violin Concerto in G major, Fwv L:G 5

Violin Concerto in G major, Fwv L:G 6

Violin Concerto in G major, Fwv L:G 7

Gabriel Fauré

Violin Concerto [unfinished] (1878–80); two of three movements were completed, the first survives

Morton Feldman

Violin and Orchestra (1979)

Jacobo Ficher

Concerto for violin and orchestra, Op. 46 (1942)

Josef Bohuslav Foerster

Violin Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 88 (1911)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 104

Wolfgang Fortner

Concerto for Violin and Large Chamber Orchestra (1947)

Eduard Franck

Violin Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 30 (1855/1861, printed 1890)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 57 (1875)

Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra in A major (1845)

Richard Franck

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 43 (1906)

Serenade for Violin and Orchestra in A major, Op. 25 (1896)

Benjamin Frankel

Violin Concerto (1951)

Peter Fribbins

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2014–15)

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Niels Gade

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 56 (1880)

Blas Galindo

Violin Concerto (1962)

Raymond Gallois-Montbrun

Violin Concerto (1957)

Harald Genzmer

Concerto for Violin (1959)

Roberto Gerhard

Violin Concerto (1945, rev. 1950)

Friedrich Gernsheim

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 42

Violin Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 86

Alberto Ginastera

Violin Concerto (1963)

Philip Glass

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1987)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (2009)

Alexander Glazunov

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82 (1904)

Benjamin Godard

Concerto Romantique, Op.35

Concerto No.2, Op.131

Hermann Goetz

Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 22

Karel Goeyvaerts

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1948)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1951)

Karl Goldmark

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 28 (1877)

Violin Concerto No. 2 ?

Berthold Goldschmidt

Violin Concerto (1952/55)

Evgeny Golubev

Violin Concerto, Op. 56 (1970)

Paul Graener

Violin Concerto, Op.104 (1938)

Camargo Guarnieri

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1940)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1952)

Sofia Gubaidulina

Offertorium, concerto for violin and orchestra (1980–86)

In tempus praesens, concerto for violin and orchestra (2006–07)

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Reynaldo Hahn

Violin Concerto in D major (1928)

Alexei Haieff

Violin Concerto (1948)

Cristóbal Halffter

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1979)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1990–91)

Rodolfo Halffter

Violin Concerto Op. 11 (1940)

Hafliði Hallgrímsson

Poemi, Violin Concerto (1986)

Iain Hamilton

Violin Concerto, Op. 15

Amphion – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra (1971)

John Harbison

Violin Concerto (1980/87)

Roy Harris

Violin Concerto (1950)

Lou Harrison

Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1940–74)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Concerto funebre for violin and string orchestra (1939)

Hamilton Harty

Violin Concerto (1908)

Joseph Haydn

Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G major

Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major

Violin Concerto No. 4 in G major

Hans Henkemans

Violin Concerto (1950)

Hans Werner Henze

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947)

Violin Concerto No. 2 "Hommage à Gödel" (1971, revised 1991)

Violin Concerto No. 3 "Three Portraits from T. Mann's Doktor Faustus" (1996)

Kenneth Hesketh

Inscription-Transformation for Violin and Orchestra (2015)

Paul Hindemith

Violin Concerto (1939)

Jennifer Higdon

Violin Concerto (2008)

Edward Burlingame Hill

Violin Concerto

Alistair Hinton

Violin Concerto (1979)

Robin Holloway

Violin Concerto, Op. 70 (1990)

Vagn Holmboe

Chamber Concerto No. 6 for Violin (1943)

Violin Concerto (1979?)

Gustav Holst

Double Concerto (1929)

Alan Hovhaness

Concerto No. 2 (Violin Concerto No. 1) for violin and strings, Op. 89, No. 1 (1951; rev. 1957)

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 431 (1993)

Jenő Hubay

Violin Concerto No. 1 (Concerto dramatique) in A minor, Op. 21 (1884)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, Op. 90 (1900)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in G minor, Op. 99 (1906–1907)

Violin Concerto No. 4 (Concerto all' antica) in A minor, Op. 101 (1907)

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Toshi Ichiyanagi

Violin Concerto "Circulating Scenery" (1983)

Shin-ichiro Ikebe

Violin Concerto (1981)

Maki Ishii

Lost Sounds III – Violin Concerto (1978)

Jānis Ivanovs

Violin Concerto (1951)

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David A. Jaffe

Violin Concerto "How Did It Get So Late So Soon?", for violin and orchestra or chamber orchestra (2016)

Violin Concerto "Bristlecone Concerto", for violin and chamber orchestra (1984)

Double Concerto for violin, mandolin and orchestra or chamber orchestra "Would You Just As Soon Sing As Make That Noise?!" (1983)

Leoš Janáček

Violin Concerto "Pilgrimage of a Soul" (1927)

Joseph Joachim

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 3 (1851), in one movement, dedicated to Franz Liszt

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor "in the Hungarian manner", Op. 11 (1861)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, WoO (1875)

David Johnstone

The Four Seasons, for Violin solo and string orchestra (pub. 2008)

Rhapsody Concertante (on Hungarian and Rumanian themes) for Violin solo and string orchestra (pub. 2008)

Poema de amor, for Violin solo and string orchestra (pub.2007)

André Jolivet

Violin Concerto (1972)

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Dmitri Kabalevsky

Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 48 (1948)

Jan Kalivoda

One concerto, a fantasy and six concertinos for violin and orchestra

Romualds Kalsons

Violin Concerto (1978)

Mieczysław Karłowicz

Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 8 (1902)

Shigeru Kan-no

2 Violin Concertos

Talivaldis Kenins

Violin Concerto (1974)

Aram Khachaturian

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 46 (1940)

Concerto-Rhapsody in B-flat minor, Op. 96 (1961)

Oliver Knussen

Violin Concerto, Op. 30 (2002)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1945)

Božidar Kos

Violin Concerto (1986)

Fritz Kreisler

Violin Concerto in C major "in the style of Vivaldi"

Franz Krommer

12 violin concertos (opp. 20, 41, 42, 43, 44, 61, 64, 81 and four without opus number—alternatively Padrta (P) III:1, 6–9, 13–15, C1, F1, F2 and G1)

Branimir Krstic

horses and dolphins unstuck in time (2008)

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José White Lafitte

Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor (1864)

Édouard Lalo

Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 20 (1874)

Symphonie Espagnole

Lars-Erik Larsson

Violin Concerto, Op. 42 (1952)

Henri Lazarof

Concerto for Violin (1986)

Violin Concerto No. 3 'Edinger', (2003)

Jean-Marie Leclair

Six Violin Concertos, Op. 7, in D minor, D major, C major, F major, A minor, and A major

Six Violin Concertos, Op. 10, in B♭ major, A major, D major, F major, E minor, and G major

Benjamin Lees

Violin Concerto (1958)

Ulrich Leyendecker

Violin Concerto (1995)

Lowell Liebermann

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Op.74 (2001)

György Ligeti

Violin Concerto (1989–92)

Magnus Lindberg

Violin Concerto No. 1 (2006)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (2015)

Bo Linde

Concerto for Violin, Op. 18 (1957)

Andrew List

Violin Concerto (2004)

George Lloyd

Concerto for violin and winds (1970)

Concerto for violin and strings (1977)

Mihovil Logar

Violin Concerto

Thomas Ludwig

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1989)

Witold Lutosławski

Chain II, dialogue for violin and orchestra (1984–85)

Partita, for violin and orchestra (1988)

Violin Concerto (1994) (fragments only)

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Otmar Mácha

Violin Concerto (1986)

James MacMillan

Violin Concerto (2009)

Bruno Maderna

Violin Concerto (1969)

Stuart MacRae

Violin Concerto (2001)

Gian Francesco Malipiero

Violin Concerto No.1 (1932)

Violin Concerto No.2 (1963)

Tomás Marco

Violin Concerto (1971)

Concierto del alma for violin and string orchestra (1987)

Frank Martin

Violin Concerto (1950–51)

Polyptyque, Concerto for Violin and Double String Orchestra (1973)

Jean Martinon

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1958, rev. 1960)

Bohuslav Martinů

Violin Concerto no.1 (1943)

Violin Concerto no. 2 (1944–45)

Tauno Marttinen

Violin Concerto, Op. 13 (1962)

Jules Massenet

Meditation from Thaïs (often programmed as a standalone piece)

Nicholas Maw

Violin Concerto (1993)

George Frederick McKay

Concerto for Violin (1942)

Erkki Melartin

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1913)

Felix Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto in D minor (1822)

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1844)

Aarre Merikanto

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1925)

Edgar Meyer

Violin Concerto (1999)

Krzysztof Meyer

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1965)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1996)

Ernst Hermann Meyer

Violin Concerto (1964)

Gian Carlo Menotti

Violin Concerto (1952)

András Mihály

Violin Concerto (1961)

Darius Milhaud

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1927)

Violin Concertos No. 2 (1946)

Violin Concertos No. 3 (1958)

Emil Młynarski

Violin concerto in D minor, Op. 11 (ca. 1897)

Violin concerto in D major, Op. 16 (ca. 1916)

Ernest John Moeran

Violin Concerto (1942)

Richard Mohaupt

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1945)

Moritz Moszkowski

Violin Concerto in C major, Op. 30

Alexander Moyzes

Violin Concerto (1958)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 207 (1775)

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)

Violin Concerto No. 6 in E-flat major, K. 268 (Spurious, 1780–81)

Violin Concerto No. 7 in D major, K. 271a, Kolb (Spurious, 1777)

Adélaïde Concerto (Forgery by Marius Casadesus)

Concertone in C major, for two violins and orchestra, K. 190 (1774)

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 44 (1938)

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Carl Nielsen

Violin Concerto, Op. 33 (1911)

Serge Nigg

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1957)

Pehr Henrik Nordgren

Concerto for Violin No. 1 (1969)

Concerto for Violin No. 2, Op. 33 (1977)

Concerto for Violin No. 3, Op. 53 (1981)

Concerto for Violin No. 4, Op. 90, (1994)

Per Nørgård

Violin Concerto No. 1 'Helle Nacht' (1987)

Violin Concerto No. 2 'Borderlines' (2002)

Ib Nørholm

Violin Concerto (1975)

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Mark O'Connor

Fiddle Concerto (1993)

Double Violin Concerto (1997)

Hiroshi Ohguri

Violin Concerto (1963)

Slavko Osterc

Concerto for Violin and 7 Instruments (1928)

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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. 4 in D minor, MS 60 (ca. 1829–30)

Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, MS 78 (1830)

Violin Concerto No. 6 in E minor, Op. posth., MS 75—probably the first to be written; only the solo part survives

Andrzej Panufnik

Violin Concerto (1971)

Boris Papandopulo

Violin Concerto (1943)

Arvo Pärt

Tabula Rasa—Double Concerto for two violins, string orchestra, and prepared piano (1977)

Helmers Pavasars

Violin Concerto

Krzysztof Penderecki

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1977)

Violin Concerto No. 2 'Metamorphosen' (1992–93)

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

Violin Concerto (1928)

Allan Pettersson

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1949)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1977–78, rev. 1980)

Hans Pfitzner

Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 34 (1923)

Willem Pijper

Violin Concerto (1938–39)

Walter Piston

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1939)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1960)

Ildebrando Pizzetti

Violin Concerto (1944)

Manuel Maria Ponce

Violin Concerto (1943)

Gundaris Pone

Violin Concerto (1959)

André Previn

Violin Concerto (2001)

Sergei Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (1917)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)

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Luis Felipe Ramírez Santillán

Violin Concerto and solo voices, (2013–14)

Nikolai Rakov

Violin Concerto No.1 E minor (1944)

Violin Concerto No.2 A minor (1954)

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Violin Concerto (1976–77)

Alan Rawsthorne

Concerto for Violin No. 1 (1948)

Concerto for Violin No. 2 (1956)

Max Reger

Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 101 (1907–08)

Carl Reinecke

Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 141 (1876)

Ottorino Respighi

Violin Concerto in A major (1903, unfinished)

Concerto gregoriano (1921)

Wolfgang Rihm

Violin Concerto, Op. 14 (1991–92)

Milan Ristić

Violin Concerto (1944)

George Rochberg

Violin Concerto (1974, rev. 2001)

Pierre Rode

Thirteen violin concertos

Joaquín Rodrigo

Concierto de estío (1944)

Alessandro Rolla

49 Works for violin and orchestra, including 21 concertos, and 28 shorter works

2 Concertos for 2 violins

Julius Röntgen

Violin Concerto in A minor (1902)

Violin Concerto in D major (1925/26)

Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor (1931)

Amanda Röntgen-Maier

Violin Concerto in D minor in one movement (1875)

Ned Rorem

Violin Concerto (1984)

Hilding Rosenberg

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1924)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1951)

Nikolai Roslavets

Violin Concerto (1925)

Christopher Rouse

Violin Concerto (1991)

Miklós Rózsa

Violin Concerto, Op. 24 (1956)

Ludomir Różycki

Violin Concerto (1944)

Edmund Rubbra

Violin Concerto, Op. 103 (1959)

Anton Rubinstein

Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 46

Poul Ruders

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1981)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1991–92)

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P. Peter Sacco

Concerto for Violin No. 1 (1969)

Harald Sæverud

Violin Concerto Op.37 (1957)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges

About twenty-five violin concertos

Camille Saint-Saëns

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 20 (1859)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C major, Op. 58 (1858)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 (1880)

Prosper Sainton

Concerto no. 1, Op. 9 (ca 1851)

Aulis Sallinen

Violin Concerto, Op. 18 (1968)

Ignacio Salvo

Double Violin Concerto (2014–15)

Ahmet Adnan Saygun

Violin Concerto (1967)

Alfred Schnittke

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1957, rev. 1966)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1966)

Violin Concerto No. 3 (1978)

Violin Concerto No. 4 (1984)

Othmar Schoeck

Violin Concerto in B-flat major, Opus 21 (1912)

Arnold Schoenberg

Violin Concerto (1936)

Gunther Schuller

Concerto for Violin No. 1 (1976)

Concerto for Violin No. 2 (1991)

William Schuman

Violin Concerto (1947, rev. 1956 & 1959)

Robert Schumann

Violin Concerto in D minor (1853)

Ernest Schuyten

Violin Concerto (1930s)

Laura Schwendinger

Chiaroscuro Azzurro (2007)

Cyril Scott

Violin Concerto

Tibor Serly

Concerto for Violin and Wind Symphony (1958–59)

Roger Sessions

Violin Concerto in B minor (1935)

Zdeněk Šesták

Violin concerto Sursum corda (1981) (wind, harp, celesta, gong and kettledrums accompaniment) ([3])

Tolib Shahidi

Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1993)

Rodion Shchedrin

Concerto Cantabile (1998)

Vissorion Shebalin

Violin Concerto, Op. 21 (1936–40, 1959)

Noam Sheriff

Violin Concerto (1986)

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)

Aleksandr Shymko

Violin concerto (2012)

Jean Sibelius

Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1904)

Robert Simpson

Violin Concerto (1959) (withdrawn)

Christian Sinding

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 45 (1898)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 60 (published by 1901)

Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 119 (1917)

Maddalena Laura Sirmen

Six Violin Concerti

Nikos Skalkottas

Violin Concerto (1938)

Lucijan Marija Škerjanc

Violin Concerto (1944)

Dane Škerl

Violin Concerto (1984)

Yngve Sköld

Violin Concerto (1941)

Myroslav Skoryk

Violin Concerto (1971)

David Stanley Smith

Violin Concerto No. 1 in F major, opus 69 (before 1934)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G major, opus 86 (before 1943)

Arthur Somervell

Violin Concerto in G minor (1930)

Vladimír Sommer

Violin Concerto (1950)

Leo Sowerby

Violin Concerto in G major (1913, rev. 1924)

Louis Spohr

15 violin concertos and other works for violin and orchestra

Charles Villiers Stanford

Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 74 (1899)

Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 162 (1918)

Robert Starer

Violin Concerto (1979–80)

Ronald Stevenson

Violin Concerto "The Gypsy" (1977–79)

Josip Štolcer-Slavenski

Violin Concerto (1927)

Richard Strauss

Violin Concerto (1881–82)

Igor Stravinsky

Violin Concerto (1931)

Stjepan Šulek

Violin Concerto (1951)

Hermann Suter

Violin Concerto (1924)

Margaret Sutherland

Violin Concerto (1954)

Johann Severin Svendsen

Violin Concerto Op.6 (1868–70)

Tomáš Svoboda

Violin Concerto, Op. 77 (1975)

Karol Szymanowski

Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 (1916)

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61 (1933)

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Otar Taktakishvili

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1987)

Eino Tamberg

Violin Concerto (1981)

Bernard Tan

Violin Concerto (2005)

Giuseppe Tartini

Over 130 violin concertos ([4])

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto (1987)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 (1878)

Georg Philipp Telemann

Violin Concerto in A Major "Die Relinge" TWV 51:A4

Violin Concerto in B♭ major ("Concerto grosso, per il Sigr. Pisendel") TWV 51:B1

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in C major TWV52:C2

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D major TWV52:D3

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in E minor TWV52:e4

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in G major TWV52:G2

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in G minor TWV52:g1

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in A major TWV52:A2

Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in B♭ major TWV52:B2

Concerto for Three Violins in F major, TWV 53:F1

Concerto for Four Violins in A major, 54:A 1

Augusta Read Thomas

Spirit Musings—Concerto for violin and orchestra (1997)

Cello Concerto No. 2—Ritual Incantations (1999)

Violin Concerto No. 3—Juggler in Paradise (2008)

Leifur Þórarinsson

Violin Concerto (1969–70)

Boris Tishchenko

Violin Concerto No. 2

Joan Tower

Violin Concerto (1992)

Vitomir Trifunović

Violin Concerto (1976)

Eduard Tubin

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1941–42)

Violin Concerto No. 2 (1945)

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Fartein Valen

Violin Concerto (1940)

David Van Vactor

Violin Concerto (1951)

Pēteris Vasks

Violin Concerto 'Distant Light' (1996–97)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Violin Concerto in D minor, "Concerto Accademico"

Carlos Veerhoff

Violin Concerto No.1 op.40 (1976)

Violin Concerto No.2 op.69 (1992)

Joseph Vella

Violin Concerto (1993)

Francesco Maria Veracini

Concerto a cinque in A major, for violin, strings, and continuo

Concerto a cinque in D major, for violin, strings, and continuo

Concerto a otto strumenti in D major, for violin solo, two trumpets, two oboes, strings, and continuo (1711)

Henri Vieuxtemps

Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 10 (1840)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 19 (ca. 1835–36)

Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major, Op. 25 (1844)

Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 31 (ca. 1850)

Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37, Grétry (1861)

Violin Concerto No. 6 in G major, Op. 47/Op. posth. 1 (1865–1870)

Violin Concerto No. 7 in A minor, Op. 49/Op. posth. 3

Giovanni Battista Viotti—twenty-nine violin concertos, particularly:

Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor (1792)

Antonio Vivaldi—many, particularly:

L'estro armonico, Op. 3 (1711)—twelve concertos

The Four Seasons (ca. 1725) —four concertos, the first four numbers of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8

Concerto in D major "Grosso Mogul", RV 208

Pancho Vladigerov

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1921)

Wladimir Vogel

Violin Concerto (1937)

Pavel Vranický

Violin Concertos in C, D, F and G

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William Walton

Violin Concerto (1939)

Robert Ward

Concerto for violin and orchestra (1993, revised 1994)

Kurt Weill

Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op.12 (1924)

Mieczysław Weinberg

Violin Concerto, Op. 67 (1960)

Egon Wellesz

Violin Concerto, Op. 84 (1961)

Richard Wetz

Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 57 (1933)

Henryk Wieniawski

Violin Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 14 (1853)

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 (1862)

John Williams

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1974–76, rev. 1998)

Richard Edward Wilson

Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1979)

Hugh Wood

Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 17 (1970–72)

Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 50 (2003–2004)

John Woolrich

Violin Concerto (2008)

Charles Wuorinen

Concerto for violin and orchestra (1958)

Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra (1972)

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Riccardo Zandonai

Concerto romantico for violin and orchestra

Hermann Zilcher

Concerto No. 1 in B minor for violin and small orchestra, Op. 11

Violin Concerto No. 2 in A major, Op. 92 (1942)

Concerto for 2 violins and orchestra in D minor, Op. 9

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Violin Concerto (1950)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Violin Concerto No. 1 (1997)

Partita (Concerto No. 2) for violin and string orchestra (2000)

Commedia dell'Arte (Violin Concerto No. 3) for violin and string orchestra (2012)

Concertos for violin and other solo instrument(s)

Henk Badings

Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra (1965)

Osvaldas Balakauskas

Sinfonia Concertante, for violin and piano (1982)

Giovanni Bottesini

Gran duo Concertante, for violin and double-bass

Ludwig van Beethoven

Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56, for piano, violin, and cello (1804–5)

Johannes Brahms

Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, for violin and cello

Peter Maxwell Davies

Strathclyde Concerto No. 5, for violin, viola and string orchestra (1991)

Frederick Delius

Double Concerto for violin and cello (1916)

Joseph Haydn

Concerto in F major, Hob. XVIII/6, for piano, violin, and strings (before 1766)

Alan Hovhaness

Concerto for violin, sitar, and orchestra, Op. 228

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Double Concerto in G major, Op. 17, for piano and violin

Julius Juzeliūnas

Concerto for Violin and Organ (1963)

Ernst Krenek

Concerto for Violin and Piano, Op. 124

Bohuslav Martinů

Concerto for Violin and Piano (1953)

Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra (1950)

Duo Concertant for Two Violins and Orchestra (1937)

Karl Marx

Concert for Two Violins and Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn

Concerto in D minor, for violin and piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra

Steve Reich

Duet for Two Violins and String Orchestra (1993)

Julius Röntgen

Triple concerto in B-flat major, for violin, viola, cello and strings (1922)

Double Concerto for violin and cello (1927)

Triple concerto for violin, viola and cello (1930)

Introduktion, Fuge, Intermezzo und Finale for violin, viola, cello

Dame Ethel Smyth

Concerto in A Major for Violin, French horn and Orchestra (1927)

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Violin, Viola and orchestra (1988)

Anatol Vieru

Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra (1979)

Robert Ward

Dialogues, a Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1986–2002)

Mark Wessel

Ballade, for solo violin, solo oboe, and string orchestra (1931)

Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (1991)

Other concertante works for violin and orchestra

Gilbert Amy

Trajectoires, for violin and orchestra (1966)

Louis Andriessen

La Girò, for violin and ensemble (2011)

Béla Bartók

One Ideal, Op. 5/1 (1907–10)

One Grotesque, Op. 5/2 (1907–10)

Rhapsody No. 1 (1928)

Rhapsody No. 2 (1928)

Ludwig van Beethoven

Romance No. 1 in G major, Op. 40 (1798–1802)

Romance No. 2 in F major, Op. 50 (1798–1802)

Luciano Berio

Corale for violin, two horns, and strings (1981)

Hector Berlioz

Reverie et Caprice, Op.8 (1841)

Leonard Bernstein

Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"(1954)

Nimrod Borenstein

"Poème" for violon solo and string orchestra Op. 64 (2013)

Max Bruch

Romance in A minor, Op. 42 (1874)

Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46 (1880)

Adagio Appassionato in C-sharp minor, Op. 57 (1890)

Schwedische Tanze, Op. 63/2 (1892)

In memoriam, Op. 65 (1893)

Serenade in A minor, Op. 75 (1899–1900)

Konzertstück in F-sharp minor, Op. 84 (ca. 1911)

Ernest Chausson

Poème, Op. 25 (1896)

Chen Yi

Chinese Folk Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra (2000)

Romance and Dance for 2 Violins and String Orchestra (1995/1998)

Henry Cowell

Air, HC 767/1a (1952)

Fiddler's Jig, HC 771, Flirtatious Jig (1952)

César Cui

Suite concertante, Op. 25 (1884)

Luigi Dallapiccola

Tartiniana (1951)

Tartiniana seconda (1955–56)

Frederick Delius

Suite for violin and orchestra (1888)

Légende (1895)

Alphons Diepenbrock

Hymne (1917)

Antonín Dvořák

Romance in F minor, Op. 11 (1877)

Mazurek, Op. 49 (1879)

George Enescu

Ballade, for violin and orchestra (1895)

Caprice Roumain, for violin and orchestra (1928, unfinished; completed by Cornel Țăranu)

Jacobo Ficher

Three Pieces for violin and orchestra, Op. 65 (1948)

Philip Glass

Echorus for two violins and string orchestra (1995)

Alexander Glazunov

Mazurka-Oberek in D major, Op. 100b (1917)

Lou Harrison

Koncherto for violin and percussion ensemble (1959)

Music for Violin and Various Instruments, European, Asian, and African (1967–69)

Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (1974; arr. for violin and string orchestra, 1993)

Philemon and Baukis for violin and Javanese gamelan (1985–87)

Hamilton Harty

Variations on a Dublin Air, for violin and orchestra (1912)

Victor Herbert

Fantasia on Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni) for violin and orchestra (1893)

Ferdinand Hiller

Violin Concerto/Fantasiestück Opus 152 (published by Forberg, 1870s, before 1876) (Koninklijke Bibliotheek of the Hague, University of Rochester Voyager Catalog which notes that it is dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe)

Paul Hindemith

Kammermusik No. 4 (Violin Concerto), Op. 36, No. 3 (1925)

Robin Holloway

Romanza for violin and small orchestra, Op. 31 (1976)

Alan Hovhaness

Ode to Freedom for violin and orchestra, Op. 284

Joseph Joachim

Notturno in A major, Op. 12 (1858)

Andantino in A minor

Variations in E minor

Aaron Jay Kernis

Air (1996; orig. for violin and piano, 1995)

Lament and Prayer (1996)

Édouard Lalo

Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21 (1874)

André Laporte

Fantasia-Rondino con tema reale, for violin and orchestra (1988)

Witold Lutosławski

Chain II (1984–85)

Partita for Violin and Orchestra (1988; orig. for violin and piano, 1984)

Alexander Mackenzie

Pibroch Suite, Op. 42 (version for violin and orchestra) (premiered 1889, ded. Sarasate)

Tomás Marco

Les mécanismes de la mémoire, for violin and orchestra (1973)

Jules Massenet

Meditation from Thaïs (1894)

John Blackwood McEwen

Scottish Fantasy "Prince Charlie" (1941 orchestration of a 1915 violin and piano work)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Adagio in E major, K. 261 (1776)

Rondo in B-flat major, K. 261a (1776)

Rondo in C major, K. 373 (1781)

Oskar Nedbal

2 pieces, Op.6 (1893)

I. Romance

II. Serenade

Arvo Pärt

Fratres for violin, string orchestra, and percussion (1992)

Darf ich... for violin, bells, and string orchestra (1995/1999)

Walter Piston

Fantasia (1970)

Nikolai Rakov

Concertino in D minor for violin and string orchestra (1960)

Maurice Ravel

Tzigane (1924)

Wolfgang Rihm

Coll'arco

Gesungene Zeit

Lichtes Spiel

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Fantasy on Two Russian Themes, for violin and orchestra, Op. 33, 1886–87

Mazurka on [Three] Polish Folk Themes, for violin and orchestra, 1888; also called Souvenir de trois chants polonais

Julius Röntgen

Suite D minor for Violin and Strings (1892)

Ballade (1918)

Camille Saint-Saëns

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28 (1863)

Romance in C major, Op. 48 (1874)

Morceau de concert in G major, Op. 62 (1880)

Havanaise in E major, Op. 83 (1887)

Caprice andalous in G major, Op. 122 (1904)

Pablo de Sarasate

Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (1878)

Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (1883)

Navarra for two violins and orchestra, Op. 33 (1889)

Miramar-Zortzico, Op. 42 (1899)

Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43 (1899)

Giacinto Scelsi

Anahit (1965)

R. Murray Schafer

The Darkly Splendid Earth (1991)

Alfred Schnittke

Sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1968; orig. for violin and piano, 1963)

Quasi una sonata (1987)

Homage to Grieg (1993)

Franz Schubert

Konzertstück in D major, D. 345 (1816)

Rondo in A major, D. 438 (1816)

Polonaise in B-flat major, D. 580 (1817)

Robert Schumann

Fantasy in C major, Op. 131 (1853)

Raminta Šerkšnytė

Vortex (2004)

John Sharpley

Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra "Greeting Card" (1999)

Jean Sibelius

2 serenades, Op.69 (1913)

I. Andante assai in D major

II. Lento assai in G minor

6 Humoresques (1917)

I. Humoresque in D minor, Op.87, No.1

II. Humoresque in D major, Op.87, No.2

III. Humoresque in G minor, Op.89, No.1

IV. Humoresque in G minor, Op.89, No.2

V. Humoresque in E-flat major, Op.89, No.3

VI. Humoresque in G minor, Op.89, No.4

Suite, Op.117 (1929)

I. Country scenery

II. Evening in Spring

III. In the Summer

Christian Sinding

Suite in A minor, Op. 10, Suite in the Old Style (1889)

Romance in D major, Op. 100 (1910)

Josef Suk

Fantasy in G minor (1902)

Johan Svendsen

Romance Op. 26 (1881)

Tan Dun

Out of Peking Opera (1987, rev. 1994)

Sergei Taneyev

Concert Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 28 (1909)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Sérénade mélancolique, Op.26 (1875)

Valse-Scherzo, Op.34 (1878)

Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 (1878) (Orchestration: Glazunov)

Méditation (D minor)

Scherzo (C minor)

Mélodie: chant sans paroles (E-flat major)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending (1914)

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Fantasia de movimentos mistos for violin and orchestra (1921)

O martírio dos insetos for violin and orchestra (1925)

Henryk Wieniawski

Légende in G minor, Op. 17 (1859)

Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's 'Faust', Op.20

John Williams

TreeSong (2000)

John Woolrich

Capriccio (2009)

Charles Wuorinen

Concertante II for violin and chamber orchestra (1958)

Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1983)

Iannis Xenakis

Dox-Orkh (1991)

Aleksander Zarzycki

Andante et polonaise in A major for violin and orchestra, Op. 23

Introduction et cracovienne in D major for violin and orchestra, Op. 35

Hermann Zilcher

Klage, Konzertstück in F♯ minor for violin and small orchestra, Op. 22 (1908)

Skizzen aus dem Orient for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 18 (1906)

Ellen Taafe Zwilich

Romance for violin and chamber orchestra (1993)

Works for orchestra or large ensemble with prominent solo violin part

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Serenade for orchestra in D major, K. 250 ("Haffner") (1776)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1888)

Charles Villiers Stanford

Irish Rhapsody No. 6 in D minor, Op. 191

Richard Strauss

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1896)

Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1897)

Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 (1899)