subject: What Violin Concertos is all about [print this page] What Violin Concertos is all about What Violin Concertos is all about
A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (quite often, two or much more violins) and instrumental ensemble, customarily orchestra. Such functions have already been composed since the Baroque period, at the time the solo concerto form was firstly created, up throughout the current time.
Several most important composers have contributed for the violin concerto arsenal, along with one of the best known operates including composers by Bach, Barber, Bartk, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi. Typically a three-movement function, the main violin concerto have been organized in four movements by many modern day composers, including Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Berg (in the latter, the first two and last two movements are connected, while using only break coming between the second and third).
In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and current period, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a chamber ensemble instead of an orchestraas an example, Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, actually scored for four violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and Allan Pettersson's 1st concerto, for violin and string quartet. Some violinist may have started at such a young age and others don't, no matter what age you are, I believe you can be good at one thing when you set your mind to it, anyone can be exceptional when they have the determination, patience and discipline to be an expert at one area specially being a violinist which would take time and a lot of patience to be really good at it.
