Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is a violin concerto in three movements composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 for and dedicated to his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. It was Brahms' only violin concerto, and, according to Joachim, one of the four great German violin concerti.
It is scored for solo violin and an orchestra consisting of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons; 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings.
It follows the standard concerto fo...
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Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 is a violin concerto in three movements composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 for and dedicated to his friend, violinist Joseph Joachim. It was Brahms' only violin concerto, and, according to Joachim, one of the four great German violin concerti.
It is scored for solo violin and an orchestra consisting of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons; 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings.
It follows the standard concerto form, with three movements in the pattern quick-slow-quick:
Originally, the work was planned in four movements like the second piano concerto. The middle movements, one of which was intended to be a scherzo — a mark that Brahms intended a symphonic concerto rather than a virtuoso showpiece — were discarded and replaced with what Brahms called a "feeble Adagio." Some of the discarded material was reworked for the second piano concerto.
Brahms, who was impatient with the minutiae of slurs marking the bowing, rather than phrasing, as his usual...
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