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A viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments such as an orchestra or

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

ensemble. Throughout music history, especially during the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

, Classical, and Romantic eras, viola was viewed mostly as an ensemble instrument. Though there were a few notable concertos written for the instrument in this time period, these instances were quite rare and the instrument continued to be ignored. However, during the 20th century, the instrument was revitalized thanks to the work of a number of violists and composers, which led to the commission and composition of many more viola concertos, expanding the repertoire significantly.

Early history of the viola concerto

Early examples of violas taking solo roles in orchestral settings include

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...

's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, scored for two solo violas,

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...

's Concerto in G major, and

Carl Stamitz Carl Philipp Stamitz (; baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801) was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the Mannheim School. He was the eldest son of Johann Stamitz, a vio ...

's Viola Concerto in D major. Arguably, one of the first

concertante Sinfonia concertante (; also called ''symphonie concertante'') is an orchestral work, normally in several movements, in which one or more solo instruments contrast with the full orchestra.Collins: ''Encyclopedia of Music'', William Collins Sons & ...

works to use the viola without caution was

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

's Sinfonia Concertante, scored for solo violin and viola. Although not much work was written for the viola alone in the Classical or Romantic periods, with only a few example concerto-like pieces emerging such as

Max Bruch Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic Music, Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin ...

's Romanze,

Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the ''Symphonie fantastique'' and ''Harold en Italie, Harold in Italy'' ...

Harold en Italie (''Harold in Italy, symphony with viola obbligato''), as the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement orchestral work by Hector Berlioz, his Opus 16, H. 68, written in 1834. Throughout, the unusual viola part represents the titular protago ...

, or

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and ...

's Potpourri, the viola concerto would see significant growth from the late 1800s.

Revitalization of the viola concerto

A number of violists and composers are credited with revitalizing the viola concerto and expanding its repertoire, with much of it centralized in Britain in the early 1900s. British violist

Lionel Tertis Lionel Tertis, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (29 December 187622 February 1975) was an English viola, violist. He was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame, and a noted teacher. Career Tertis was born ...

is often credited with popularizing the viola as a solo instrument in the early 20th century through advocating for the composition of new pieces, as well as arranging works for the viola. A number of works were dedicated to Tertis including concertos by

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

and Edwin York Bowen, and other concertante works such as

Arnold Bax Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music ...

's Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra. Tertis also commissioned pieces such as

Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams ( ; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...

' '' Flos Campi'' and

Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...

's '' Lyric Movement'' for Viola and Small Orchestra, in addition to gaining permission to transpose works for the viola, such as

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments. These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...

and

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's ''Caprice and Elegy'' for Cello and Orchestra.

William Primrose William Primrose (23 August 19041 May 1982) was a Scottish violist and teacher. He performed with the London String Quartet from 1930 to 1935. He then joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra where he formed the Primrose Quartet. He performed in v ...

was also an important figure in establishing the role of the viola as a soloist, having a number of concertos dedicated to him by composers like

Quincy Porter William Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of european classical music, classical music. Biography Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he went to Yale University where his teachers included H ...

and

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (, ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His composition ...

. He also commissioned works as well, with the most famous being

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

's posthumously completed

Viola Concerto A viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments such as an orchestra or chamber music ensemble. Throughout music history, especially during the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras, viola was viewed mo ...

. Other contemporary composers, such as

Alfred Schnittke Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody (composer), Ivan Moody as a ...

and

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include '' Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', '' ...

, have also composed pieces for Viola and Orchestra. Orchestrations of accompaniments from chamber works into concertante works have also become more popular, with more well known transcriptions being those of Shostakovich's Viola Sonata or Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata.

List of viola concertos

* Samuel Adler ** Viola Concerto (1999) * Julia Adolphe ** '' Unearth, Release'' (2016) *

Airat Ichmouratov Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov (, Tatar language, Tatar Cyrillic: Айрат Рафаил улы Ишмурат,) born 28 June 1973, is a Volga Tatar born Russians, Russian / Canadians, Canadian composer, conducting, conductor and klezmer clarin ...

** Concerto No. 1 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 7 (2004) ** Concerto No. 2 "Rennsteig" for Viola and String Orchestra with Harpsichord, Op. 41 (2015) *

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** Concierto en Tango (2014) *

Kalevi Aho Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer. Early years Aho began his interest in music at the age of ten, when he discovered a mandolin in his home and began to teach himself how to play it. He soon was taken under the tutela ...

** Viola Concerto (2006) * Necil Kazım Akses ** Viola Concerto (1977) *

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music f ...

** Viola Concerto with Small Orchestra, Op. 108 (1971) * Henk Badings ** Viola Concerto (1965) *

** ''Brandenburg Concerto'' No. 6 (Solo parts for two violas) *

Simon Bainbridge Simon Bainbridge (30 August 1952 – 2 April 2021) was a British composer. He was also a professor and head of musical composition, composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentu ...

** Viola Concerto (1976) * Lubor Bárta ** Viola Concerto (1957) *

, Sz. 120, BB 128 (1945) * Stanley Bate ** Viola Concerto, Op.46 (1944–6) * Sadao Bekku ** Viola Concerto (1971) * William Henry Bell ** Viola Concerto ''"Rosa Mystica"'' (1916) * Jiří Antonín Benda ** Viola Concerto in F major (about 1775) * Valentin Bibik ** Viola Concerto No. 1, Op. 53 (1984) ** Viola Concerto No. 2, Op. 104 (1994) *

Boris Blacher Boris Blacher (30 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist. Life Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (h ...

** Viola Concerto (1954) * Herbert Blendinger (b.1936) ** Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 38 (1982) ** Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra, Op. 16 (1962) * Tim Brady ** Viola Concerto (2012) *

Joly Braga Santos José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE (; May 14, 1924July 18, 1988) was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies. Biography José Manuel Joly Braga Santos was born in Lisbon in 1924 and died ...

** Viola Concerto Op. 34 (1960) *

Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra The Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88, is a composition by Max Bruch which was composed in 1911. It premiered on 5 March 1912 in Wilhelmshaven by the piece's dedicatees, violist Willy Hess and the composer's son and ...

, Op. 88 (1911) *

Revol Bunin Revol Samuilovich Bunin (; 6 April 1924, in Moscow – 4 July 1976, in Moscow) was a Soviet composer. Early life and education Bunin's father, Samuil Markovich, was a bolshevik, a member of the Communist Party from before the 1917 revolution an ...

** Viola Concerto, Op. 22 (1953) *

Willy Burkhard Willy Burkhard (17 April 1900 – 18 June 1955) was a Swiss composer and academic teacher, influential in both capacities. He taught music theory at the Berne Conservatory and the Zürich Conservatory. His works include an opera, oratorios, canta ...

** Viola Concerto, Op. 93 (1953/54) * Diana Burrell ** Viola Concerto ''"...calling, leaping, crying, dancing..."'' (1994) * Britta Byström ** Viola Concerto "A walk after dark" (2013) *

Cristian Carrara Cristian Carrara (born January 28, 1977) is an Italian composer who is active in the Italian social and institutional scene. Early life Born in Pordenone, Carrara graduated in composition from the Conservatory "Jacopo Todini" in Udine under Ren ...

** Viola Concerto "The Waste Land" (2016) *

Henri Casadesus Henri-Gustave Casadesus (30 September 1879 – 31 May 1947) was a violist, viola d'amore player, composer, and music publisher. Early life Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert L ...

** Concerto in B minor in the style of

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, H ...

** Concerto in C minor in the style of

Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (5 September 1735 – 1 January 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He received his early musical training from his father, and later from his half-brother, Carl ...

** Concerto in D major in the style of

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical period. He was the fifth ch ...

Gyula Dávid Gyula Dávid (6 May 1913 – 14 March 1977) was a Hungarian violist and composer. Life and career Gyula Dávid was born in Budapest, Hungary on 6 May 1913. He studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music (FLAM ...

** Viola Concerto (1950) *

Brett Dean Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor. Early life Brett Dean was born, raised, and educated in Brisbane. He attended Brisbane State High School. He started learning violin at age 8, and later stu ...

** Viola Concerto (2004) *

Edison Denisov Edison Vasilievich Denisov (, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called " Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. Biography Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia. He studied math ...

** Viola Concerto (1986) *

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 – 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was a friend of both Haydn and Mozart. (webpage has a translation button) His best-known works include the German singspiel '' Doktor un ...

** Viola Concerto in F major * Iván Erőd ** Viola Concerto, Op. 30 (1979–1980) * Cecil Forsyth ** Viola Concerto in G minor (1903) *

Benjamin Frankel Benjamin Frankel (31 January 1906 – 12 February 1973) was a British composer. His best known pieces include a cycle of five string quartets, eight symphonies, and concertos for violin and viola. He was also notable for writing over 100 film sc ...

** Viola Concerto, Op. 45 (1967) * Kenneth Fuchs ** Viola Concerto "Divinum Mysterium" (2010) * Srul Irving Glick ** Concerto for Viola and Strings * Steven Gellman ** Viola Concerto (2004) * Mikhail Goldstein ** Viola Concerto in C Major * Evgeny Golubev ** Viola Concerto, Op. 57 (1962) *

Morton Gould Morton Gould (December 10, 1913February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Biography Morton Gould was born in Richmond Hill, New York, United States. He was of Austrian-Jewish heritage. He was recognized ear ...

** Viola Concerto (1943) * Ignatz Gspan ** Concerto in C major for Viola and String Orchestra (18th century) *

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Modernism (music), modernist Holy minimalism, sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous Chamber music, chamber, Orchestra, orch ...

** Viola Concerto (1996) *

John Harbison John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer and academic. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbison and Janet German Harbison. The Harbisons ...

(1988) * Hans Henkemans ** Viola Concerto (1954, premiered 1956) *

Jacques Hétu Jacques Joseph Robert Hétu (August 8, 1938 – February 9, 2010) was a prominent Canadian composer and music educator. Hétu is the most frequently performed of Canadian classical composers, both within Canada and internationally. Educati ...

** Viola Concerto Op.75 *

Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemp ...

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Franz Anton Hoffmeister Franz Anton Hoffmeister (12 May 1754 – 9 February 1812) was a German and Austrian composer and music publisher. Early years Franz Anton Hoffmeister was born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Further Austria, on 12 May 1754. At the age of fourteen ...

** Viola Concerto in B flat major ** Viola Concerto in D major *

Robin Holloway Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer. Early life Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was educated at King's College School, ...

** Viola Concerto (1984) *

Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about ...

** Viola Concerto No. 1 (1925) ** Viola Concerto No. 2 (1979) * Michael Jarrell ** Viola Concerto "Emergences-Résurgences" (2016) * Giya Kancheli ** Viola Concerto ''Mourned by the Wind'' (1986) *

Nigel Keay Nigel Keay (born 1955) is a New Zealand composer. He has been a freelance musician since 1983 working as a composer, violist, and violin teacher. Nigel Keay has held the following composer residencies: Mozart Fellowship, University of Otago 1986 ...

** Viola Concerto (2000) *

Aaron Jay Kernis Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning American composer serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty. Kernis spent 15 years as the music advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra and as direct ...

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Erland von Koch Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film. Life and career Born in Stockholm as the son of compo ...

** Viola Concerto, Op. 33 (1946 rev. 1966) * Peter Paul Koprowski ** Viola Concerto (1996) * Joseph Martin Kraus ** Viola Concerto in C Major ** Viola Concerto in E-flat Major * Samuel de Lange ** Viola Concerto (1900) * Victor Legley ** Viola Concerto, Op. 78 (1971) *

Ulrich Leyendecker Ulrich Leyendecker (29 January 1946 — 29 November 2018) was a German composer of classical music. His output consisted mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music. Life Leyendecker studied composition with Ingo Schmitt (1 ...

** Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (2008) *

Peter Lieberson Peter Goddard Lieberson (25 October 1946 – 23 April 2011, aged 64) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. His song cycles include two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: '' Rilke Songs'' and '' Neruda Songs''; the la ...

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Magnus Lindberg Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017. Ear ...

** Viola Concerto (2023-2024) * Zdeněk Lukáš (born 1928) ( Kabeláč student) ** Viola Concerto (1983) *

Peter Machajdík Peter Machajdík (born 1 June 1961) is a Slovak composer of classical music, performer and sound artist. He was born and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has received critical acclaim for his chamber, orchestral, electronic, choral, and th ...

** Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra "Behind the Waves" (2016) ** Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra "Between the Waves" (2021) *

James MacMillan Sir James Loy MacMillan, TOSD (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor. Early life MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is Jam ...

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Jef Maes Jef "Joseph" Maes (5 April 1905 in Antwerp – 30 June 1996 in Antwerp) was a Belgian composer and violist. Encouraged by his friend, André Cluytens, he completed his study at the Flemish conservatory in Antwerp. He studied viola with Napoleo ...

** Viola Concerto (1943) *

Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphony, symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber music, chamber, vocal and ins ...

** Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1952) *

** Viola Concerto No. 1, Op. 108 (1929) ** Viola Concerto No. 2, Op. 340 (1955) * Paul Müller-Zürich ** Viola Concerto in F minor, Op. 24 (1934) *

Nico Muhly Nico Asher Muhly (; born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestra ...

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Gösta Nystroem Gösta Nystroem (13 October 1890 – 9 August 1966) was a Swedish people, Swedish composer. Nystroem, originally ''Nyström'', was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge ...

** Viola Concerto ''"Hommage à la France"'' (1940) *

** Viola Concerto (1983) *

Allan Pettersson Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, ...

** Viola Concerto (1979) *

Walter Piston Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter ...

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Mikhail Pletnev Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev (, ''Mikha'il Vas'ilevič Plet'nëv''; born 14 April 1957) is a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. Life and career Pletnev was born into a musical family in Arkhangelsk, then part of the Soviet Union. His fath ...

** Viola Concerto (1997) *

** Viola Concerto (1948)

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Behzad Ranjbaran Behzad Ranjbaran (; born 1955, in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian composer, known for his virtuosic concertos and colorful orchestral music. Ranjbaran's music draws from his cultural roots, incorporating Persian musical modes and rhythms. Life and car ...

** Viola Concerto (2014) *

Alessandro Rolla Alessandro Rolla (; 23 April 175714 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher. His son, Antonio Rolla, was also a violin virtuoso and composer. His fame now rests mainly as "teacher of the great ...

** Concertino in E-flat major for Viola and Orchestra (or String Quartet), BI. 328/546 ** Viola Concerto in C major, BI. 541 ** Viola Concerto in D major, BI. 542 ** Viola Concerto in D major, BI. 543 ** Viola Concerto in E-flat major, BI. 544 ** Viola Concerto in E-flat major, BI. 545 ** Viola Concerto in E-flat major, BI. 547 ** Viola Concerto in E major, BI. 548 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 549 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 550 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 551 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 552 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 553 ** Viola Concerto in F major, BI. 554 ** Viola Concerto in B-flat major, BI. 555 *

Julius Röntgen Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg. Early life and education Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of music ...

** Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Strings in B-flat major (1922) ** Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola, and Cello (1930) *

Hilding Rosenberg Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985)Lyne Peter H. Rosenberg, Hilding (Constantin). In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly re ...

** Viola Concerto (1942, 1964, 1945) *

Miklós Rózsa Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensi ...

** Viola Concerto, Op. 37 (1979) *

Edmund Rubbra Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak o ...

** Viola Concerto in A minor, Op. 75 *

Ahmet Adnan Saygun Ahmet Adnan Saygun (; 7 September 1907 – 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music. One of a group of composers known as the Turkish Five who pioneered western classical music in Turkey, his works show a maste ...

** Viola Concerto (1977) *

(1985) * Joseph Schubert ** Viola Concerto in C major ** Viola Concerto in E-flat major *

Peter Seabourne Peter Seabourne (born 1960) is an English contemporary classical composer based in Lincolnshire, England. Biography Seabourne studied at Clare College, Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and University of York with David Blake (composer), David Blak ...

** Viola Concerto (2020) *

Tibor Serly Tibor Serly (; Losonc, Kingdom of Hungary, 25 November 1901 – London, 8 October 1978) was a Hungarian violist, violinist, and composer. Life Serly was the son of Lajos Serly, a pupil of Franz Liszt and a composer of songs and operettas in ...

** Viola Concerto (1929) * Ragnar Soderlind ** Viola Concerto "Nostalgia delle radici" (2003) * Anton Stamitz ** Concerto in B-flat major ** Concerto in F major (1779) ** Concerto in G major ** Concerto in D major *

** Concerto No. 1 in D major (1774) ** Concerto No. 2 in B-flat/A major ** Concerto No. 3 in A major *

Johann Stamitz Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Antonín Stamic; 18 June 1717 – 27 March 1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist. His two surviving sons, Carl and Anton Stamitz, were composers of the Mannheim school, of which Johann ...

** Multiple viola concertos * Frank Stiles ** Viola Concerto (1955) *

Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to: *TORU, spacecraft system *Tōru (given name), Japanese male given name *Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Es ...

** Viola Concerto " A String Around Autumn" (1989) *

Cengiz Tanç Cengiz is the Turkish form of Genghis, as in Genghis Khan. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Cengiz Aktar (born 1955), Turkish political scientist, journalist and writer * Cengiz Bektaş (1934–2020), Turkish architect, engine ...

** Viola Concerto (1986) * Josef Tal ** Viola Concerto (1953) *

** Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9 * Haukur Tomasson ** Viola Concerto, "''Echo Chamber''" (2015) * Joan Tower ** Viola Concerto, "'' Purple Rhapsody"'' (2005) *

Johann Baptist Wanhal Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech composer of the Classical period. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beetho ...

** Viola Concerto in C major ** Viola Concerto in F major *

in A minor (1928–29, revised in 1961.) * ** Viola Concerto No. 1 in G major ** Viola Concerto No. 2 in C major ** Viola Concerto No. 3 in C major *

Jörg Widmann Jörg Widmann (; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of ...

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John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022)Classic Connection review, ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who w ...

** Viola Concerto (2009) *

John Woolrich John Woolrich ( ; born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Biography Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and t ...

** Viola Concerto (1993) * Edwin York Bowen ** Viola Concerto (1908) *

Carl Friedrich Zelter Carl Friedrich Zelter (11 December 1758 15 May 1832)Grove/Fuller-Datei:Carl-Friedrich-Zelter.jpegMaitland, 1910. The Zelter entry takes up parts of pages 593-595 of Volume V. was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music. Working in his ...

** Viola Concerto E-flat major * Joseph Schmitt ** Viola Concerto in C major *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advo ...

Der Schwanendreher Paul Hindemith's ''Der Schwanendreher'' (literally, "The Swan Turner") is a concerto for viola and orchestra. ''Der Schwanendreher'' occupies a place at the core of the viola concerto repertoire, along with the concertos by Walton and Bartók. I ...

List of other works for viola and orchestra

** Fantasy on D. Shostakovich's Opera " Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 12 (2006) ** 3 Romances for Viola, String Orchestra, and Harp, Op. 22 (2009) *

** Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra (1920) *

** ''

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Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch (; ; July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. Several of his most no ...

** Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1919) ** Suite Hébraïque (1951) *

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period (music), Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, oft ...

** Sonata for Viola and Orchestra (1894) *

** Romance for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 85 * Rebecca Clarke ** Sonata for Viola and Orchestra (1919) *

Benjamin Dale Benjamin James Dale (17 July 188530 July 1943) was an English composer and academic who had a long association with the Royal Academy of Music. Dale showed compositional talent from an early age and went on to write a small but notable corpus of ...

** Romance *

** Music for Viola and Orchestra (2011) * Cornelis Dopper ** Nocturne for Viola and Orchestra (1937) * Iván Erőd ** Koncertant Fantasy for Viola and String Orchestra, Op. 35 (1980–1981) *

Morton Feldman Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School o ...

** ''The Viola in My Life IV'' (1971) * Geoffrey Gordon ** Meditation and Allegro for Viola and Ensemble (2010) *

** Two Paths: A Dedication to Mary and Martha for Two Viola Soloists and Orchestra (1998) *

** '' Kammermusik'' No. 5 for Viola and Chamber Orchestra ** Konzertmusik for Viola with Chamber Orchestra ** '' Trauermusik'' for Viola and Strings *

** Lyric Movement for Viola and Small Orchestra (1933) *

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts ...

** Talin for Viola and Strings, Op. 93, No. 1 (1951–52) *

Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...

** Elegy for Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra, Op. 15 (1917) *

** Potpourri for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 94 *

Joseph Jongen Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Biography Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. He was the elder brother of Léon Jonge ...

** Suite, Op. 48 (1915) *

** ''Concertino d'été'', Op. 311 (1951) ** Air (from Sonata No. 1), Op. 242 (1944) *

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E major, K. 364 (320d), was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the time of its composition in 1779, Mozart was on a tour of Europe that included Mannheim and Paris. He had been ...

Thea Musgrave Thea Musgrave Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Barnton, Edinburgh, Mus ...

** ''Lamenting with Ariadne'' for Viola and Chamber Orchestra *

Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; ; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices ...

** Quartet 15 for Viola and Orchestra (1820) ** Sonata per la Grand Viola (1834) * Joseph de Pasquale ** Theme and Variations for Viola, String Orchestra, and Harp (1954) ** Variations for Viola, String Orchestra, and Harp (1984) *

(1757–1841) **Introduction and Divertimento in F major for Viola and Large Orchestra (incomplete), BI. 329 ** Divertimento in F major for Viola and Orchestra d'Archi, BI. 330 ** Rondo in G major for Viola and String Orchestra, 2 Oboes, and 2 Horns, BI.331 ** Divertimento in G major for Viola and Orchestra, BI. 332 ** Adagio and Thema with Variations in G major for Viola and Orchestra, BI. 333 * Antonio Rolla (1798–1837) ** Variazioni Brillanti in F major for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 13 (1822) *

** Introduction, Fugue, Intermezzo and Finale for Violin, Viola, Cello *

Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

** Märchenbilder for Viola and Orchestra (1851) *

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighbouring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigi ...

** ''Elegy'' for Viola and Strings (2006) *

** Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1929) ** Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra (1948) *

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

** String Quartet No. 13 for Viola and Orchestra (1970) ** Sonata for Viola, Percussion, and Orchestra (1975) *

Leó Weiner Leó Weiner (16 April 1885 – 13 September 1960) was one of the leading Hungarian music educators of the first half of the twentieth century, and a composer. Life Education Weiner was born in Budapest to a Jewish family. His brother ga ...

** Ballad for Viola and Orchestra *

** Ulysses Awakes (1989) *

** Suite for Viola and Orchestra ** Suite '' Flos Campi'' for Viola, Chorus and Orchestra *

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. Hi ...

** Antiphonen für Viola und 25 Instrumentalisten

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External links

Viola website, hosting information about the viola.

Michael Haydn page with Many Classical and Early-Romantic Worklists

Viola in music
– The role of viola in music. Information, description of works, videos, free sheet music, MIDI files, RSS update. {{DEFAULTSORT:Viola Concerto

Early history of the viola concerto

Revitalization of the viola concerto

List of viola concertos

List of other works for viola and orchestra

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