This piece's composer rewrote it to feature a solo pianist, penning a new extensive cadenza for piano and timpani for its first movement.
This piece's composer rewrote it to feature a solo pianist, penning a new extensive cadenza for piano and timpani for its first movement. The premiere of this piece included an impromptu single-string sonata performed by its dedicatee Franz Clement, who was irritated at having to sight-read it. Quotations from later works in the same genre litter the controversial 1977 cadenzas written for this piece by Alfred Schnittke. Interest in this piece was revived with an1844 performance conducted by Mendelssohn and led by a 13-year-old Joseph Joachim. The strings enter the first movement playing four D-sharps, quoting this piece's opening measure in which four beats are played on the timpani. Fritz Kreisler wrote the most commonly-used cadenzas for this piece, which ends with a folk song-inspired ";Rondo, allegro."; For 10 points, name this D major piece for a solo string instrument and orchestra, which debuted a year after its composer's Eroica Symphony.
This piece's composer rewrote it to feature a solo pianist, penning a new extensive cadenza for piano and timpani for its first movement.
Ludwig van  Beethoven's  Violin Concerto in D-major [or Ludwig van  Beethoven's Opus 61; or the Opus 61 Violin Concerto; prompt on partial answers throughout]