Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in G Major, Op. 40

Composer: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
  • This work was composed in 1801/2, and published 1803 in Leipzig.1
  • Beethoven composed two single-movement pieces for violin and orchestra which he called Romances (the other is in F Major, op. 50).2
  • It’s possible this Romance was originally intended as slow movement for an (unfinished) violin concerto by Beethoven.3

Sources

  1. Douglas Johnson et al, “Beethoven, Ludwig van,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed July 22, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040026.
  2. Douglas Porter Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985), 117.
  3. Robin Golding, liner notes to Beethoven: Violinkonzert, Romanzen 1 & 2, Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Berlinker Philharmoniker, EMI 7 49567 2, CD, 1989.

Cut IDs

18961, 15181, 21839, 40267, 40583