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414: 393: 369: 1489: 332: 320: 308: 139: 612:, who must certainly have seen Schumann’s Violin Concerto in the month of its completion, composed a Violin Concerto of his own in 1874, intended for Joachim, which is in the same key (D minor); Dietrich's finale however uses polka rather than polonaise rhythms. It is possible that it was influenced by his private knowledge of the unperformed work (though Brahms's influence is easier to detect). 25: 1499: 1525: 464:, he never performed the Violin Concerto. After playing it through with the Hannover Court Orchestra (of which Joachim was the concertmaster) for Schumann in October 1853, Joachim retained the manuscript for the rest of his life. After Schumann’s attempted suicide in February 1854 and subsequent decline and death in a sanatorium in 480:
and on Brahms, and the work was not published in the Complete Edition of Schumann’s works and was in effect kept secret throughout the 19th century. Brahms did however publish, in a supplementary volume of the Schumann Edition, ‘Schumann’s last musical thought’, a theme on which Schumann had begun to
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reproduced a letter in which Joachim discussed Schumann’s Concerto as showing ‘a certain exhaustion, which attempts to wring out the last resources of spiritual energy’, though ‘certain individual passages bear witness to the deep feelings of the creative artist’.
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The concerto is in the traditional three-movement quick-slow-quick form. It belongs less to the poetic and passionate style of Schumann's early masterpieces than to the more objective, classical manner of his later music, as ushered in by the
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entered Schumann's life. It appears that Schumann composed the finale of the Concerto in three days: 1–3 October, after making Brahms’s acquaintance. Later in October, he collaborated with his new friend Brahms and his pupil
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in Berlin, and stated in his will (he died in 1907) that the work should be neither played nor published until 100 years after the composer's death, i.e. until 1956. However in March 1933, during a spiritualist séance in
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However, all of this was to no avail, for the world copyright to the concerto was held in Germany, and the German government insisted on the world premiere being given by a German.
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The concerto slowly made its way into the concert repertoire and is now recognized as an important work of the composer. For a recording made in 1988 the Austrian violinist
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and one of his last significant compositions. It remained unknown to all but a very small circle for more than 80 years after it was written.
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WoO 24, and passes without pause into the third movement. Until its penultimate bar this movement uses no wind except bassoons and trumpet.
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in July 1937 that it was the historically missing link of the violin literature. Menuhin planned to deliver the world premiere at
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The second movement, in B flat, has the character of an intensely lyrical intermezzo, the theme of which hints toward the
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The third movement is a vigorous and dance-like sonata-rondo finale in the parallel major, D major, and has a strong
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compose variations in early 1854. Schumann had thought the theme had been dictated to him by the spirits of
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went back to Schumann’s original manuscript, correcting many errors in the published edition.
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Thomas Zehetmair, Philharmonia Orchestra, under Christoph Eschenbach, Teldec, 1989
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The concerto is scored for solo violin, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B
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had worked on the score in some detail to render it playable, with
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under Golschmann on 23 December. Jelly d'Aranyi gave the first
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attended by Joachim's two great-nieces, the sister violinists
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Letter dated 5 August 1898. Translation from Hans GĂĄl, ed.,
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Joachim deposited the manuscript of the concerto with the
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between 11 September and 3 October 1853 for the violinist
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Yet no more was heard for four years, until in 1937
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Joachim’s opinion prevailed on the composer’s widow
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