Orchestra 2.2.2.2:
4.2.0.0: Timp: Str
(9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo
Violin
SKU:
AP.36-A213048
Composed by Richard
Strauss. Full Orchestra.
Kalmus Orchestra Library.
Part(s). LudwigMasters
Publications #36-A213048.
Published by
LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-A213048).
ISBN
9798892705271. UPC:
659359875526.
English.
Richard
Strauss (1864-1949) wrote
his VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D
MINOR, Op. 8, between
1881 and 1882, and it
remained his only foray
in that genre. Composed
while a teenager and
still in school. While
still very much a product
of the Romantic era
tradition, the work is
not considered as
distinctive as the works
he would produce only a
few years later, and
Strauss himself later
ridiculed the work.
Still, with inventive and
bold writing in the solo
and hints of his mature
harmonic style to come,
there is much to enjoy in
the work, including its
warmth, youthful
sincerity, and lyrical
expression, so that it
should not be dismissed
as mere juvenilia, either
by contemporary audiences
or Strauss himself. The
chamber version of the
concerto was first
performed in Vienna on
December 5, 1882, with
the dedicatee Benno
Walter on the violin
while Strauss played his
own piano reduction. The
premiere for the
orchestral version would
take place seven years
later in Cologne on March
4, 1890, with Walter
again performing the solo
with an orchestra
conducted by Franz
Wüllner.
Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2:
4.2.0.0: Timp: Str
(9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo
Violin.
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