Violin_Concerto_(Larsson)
Violin Concerto (Larsson)
Concerto in three movements by Lars-Erik Larsson
The Violin Concerto, Op. 54, is a three-movement concertante composition for violin and orchestra written in 1952 by the Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson. The piece premiered over Swedish Radio on 11 January 1953 in Stockholm, Sweden, with Sten Frykberg conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra.[1] The soloist was the Hungarian violinist André Gertler, its dedicatee.[2]
In 1976, Larsson wrote a new cadenza to Movement I.[2]