Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major

• Florence Price composed this concerto in 1939. There is no record of a performance of it during her lifetime.¹
• This concerto was among the lost Price scores that were discovered in the attic of her former Chicago home in 2009.²
• Many of those rediscovered scores are now housed at the University of Arkansas. Violinist Er-Gene Kahng, professor at that university, released the premiere recording of both of Price’s violin concertos in 2018.³

Movements

1. Tempo moderato 
2. Andante 
3. Finale: Allegro⁴

1. Marquese Carter, “Florence Price – Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2,” Black Grooves (2018), accessed January 26, 2022, https://blackgrooves.org/florence-price-violin-concertos-nos-1-and-2/.
2. Laurie Niles, “Samuel Thompson Discusses the Rediscovered Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 1,” Violinist.com (February 18, 2019), accessed January 26, 2022, https://www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/20192/27660/.
3. Ibid.
4. “Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 (1952),” Wise Music Classical (accessed January 26, 2022, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/58910/Violin-Concerto-No-1–Florence-Price/.