Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35

Composer: KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang
  • Written in 1945, Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D Major comprises three movements:
    1. Moderato nobile
    2. Romanze
    3. Allegro assai vivace
  • Jascha Heifetz premiered the work in 1947 with the St. Louis Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. Heifetz greatly admired the work and continued to incorporate it into his own concerto programming.
  • Korngold quoted several of his own film themes throughout the score:
    • 1st movement: Another Dawn (1937); Juarez (1939)
    • 2nd movement: Anthony Adverse (1936)
    • 3rd movement: The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
  • Korngold dedicated the piece to fellow Austrian composer Alma Mahler-Werfel. Alma’s first husband, Gustav Mahler, made a significant impression on the composer as a young prodigy, and Alma and Korngold remained friends after Gustav’s death.1

Sources

  1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Concerto in D major: for violin and orchestra, Op. 35, Eulenburg, 2020.

Cut IDs

22501 41255 10706 12848 18483 19854 24300 27024 25536