Violin Concerto No. 1 (Piston)
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Walter Piston
's Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1939
and dedicated to violinist Ruth Posselt
. On the 18th of March 1940, Posselt, backed by the National Orchestral Association under Léon Barzin
gave the first performance at Carnegie Hall.
The work is in three movements
:
A typical performance will last around 25 minutes.
Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
's Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra was written in 1939
1939 in music
-Events:*March 23 – Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 is premiered by Zoltán Székely and the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
and dedicated to violinist Ruth Posselt
Ruth Posselt
Ruth Pierce Posselt was an American violinist and educator.-Studies and Performances:...
. On the 18th of March 1940, Posselt, backed by the National Orchestral Association under Léon Barzin
Leon Barzin
Léon Eugene Barzin was a Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association , the oldest surviving training orchestra in the United States...
gave the first performance at Carnegie Hall.
The work is in three movements
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
:
- Allegro energico
- Andantino molto tranquillo
- Allegro con spirito
A typical performance will last around 25 minutes.
Further reading
- Davis, Rachelle Marie. 2004. "Walter Piston's Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra: Thematic and Motivic Transformation, Style, and Violinistic Issues". DMA dissertation. Austin: University of Texas. ISBN 0-496-74348-1.