Violin Concerto: Scores

Tchaikovsky Research

This list of scores of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto does not claim to be exhaustive, but additions and corrections are welcome, and can be sent to us at discography@tchaikovsky-research.net


Tchaikovsky's Version

For Violin with Piano

First Edition [1879]

Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Plate 3339.

Tchaikovsky (editor) [1880]

Hamburg: D. Rahter. Plate 2954.
— newly revised edition by the composer
— the first print contains the already withdrawn dedication to Leopold Auer on the cover page

Salvatore Accardo (editor) [2013]

Milano: Edizioni Curci.
— original version

Leopold Auer (editor?) [1899]

Leipzig: D. Rahter, No.178. Plate 1332 (violin), 2954.1332 (piano).
— original version, although same plate as arrangement

Issay Barmas (editor) [1913]

Kopenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, No. 1480. Plate 15200.
— includes original version with optional 104 bar cut in the Finale

Felix Berber (editor) [1913]

Wien: Universal-Edition. Plate U.E. 704.
— original version with optional cuts for a performance with piano accompaniment, small additions to the cadenza

Walter Davisson (editor) [n.d.]

Wiesbaden: Edition Breitkopf, No. 4026. Plate 31346.
Boca Raton: Kalmus, No. K 04013 (reprint omits editor's name)
— includes original version with optional cuts in the Finale

Carl Flesch (editor) [1931]

Leipzig: Edition Peters, No. 3019a. Plate 8788 (piano), 10884 (violin).
— includes original version with optional cuts in the Finale (slightly different from Auer)

Carl Herrmann (editor) [193x?]

Leipzig: Edition Peters, No. 3019. Plate 8788.
— original version
— with green cover, same print as the 1902 edition with a few additional fingerings

Friedrich Hermann (editor) [1902]

Leipzig: Edition Peters, No. 3019. Plate 8788.
— original version 'Mit Genehmigung des Eigentümers Herrn D. Rahter in Leipzig'.
— with red cover indicating that the score is under copyright, in print at least until 1920

Ernst Herttrich (editor) [2011]

München: G. Henle, No. HN 685.
— Joint Urtext edition with Breitkopf & Härtel, contains 2nd violin part edited by Kurt Guntner, piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit

Arno Hilf (editor) [1900]

Hamburg: D. Rahter. Plate 2954.
— original version

Emil Kross (editor) [1901]

Leipzig: Bosworth Edition, No. 294. Plate B. & Co. 4162.
— original version

Norbert Kubat (editor) [n.d.]

Prague: Melantrich. Plate M 97.
— original version with small changes to the cadenza

Henri Marteau (editor) [1922]

Leipzig: Steingräber. Plate?.
—? with 2nd violin part for teaching purposes

Philipp Mittell (editor) [1918]

New York: Schirmer, No. 1185. Plate 22603.
— original version

David Ojstrach and Konstantin Mostras (editor) [1952]

Moscow: Muzgiz. Plate M. 8913 Г.
Frankfurt am Main: Edition Peters, No. 3019b. Plate E.P. 12457.
New York: International Music Company. Plate 1902.
— includes original and Auer's version

Henri Petri (editor) [ca. 1901]

Leipzig: Steingräber Verlag. Plate 940.
— original version

Max Rostal (editor) [1973]

Mainz: Edition Schott, No. 6550. Plate 43344.
— includes original and Auer's version

Emile Sauret (editor) [1920]

London: Augener's Edition, No. 7967. Plate 15347.
Mainz: Schott. [1926]
— original version

Clemens Schultze-Biesantz (editor) [1924?]

Braunschweig: Litolff, No. 2673.
— original version

Stephen B. Shipps (editor) [2011]

St. Louis: Lauren Keiser Music Publishing.
— includes original, Auer's and Sevcik's version plus Sevcik's Analytical Studies, associate editor Danae Witter, piano reduction by Dmitri Vorobiev.

Ivan Shishov & Nikolay Shemanin (editor) [1946]

Moscow: Muzgiz. Plate M. 17607 Г. P.I. Tchaikovsky: Complete Collected Works, vol.55A (Полное собрание сочинений).

Hans Sitt (editor) [ca. 1900]

Leipzig: Ernst Eulenburg. Plate E.E. 2125.
— original version

Polina Vajdman / Wiltrud Haug-Freienstein (editor) [2005]

München: G. Henle, No. 685.
— original version, violin part edited by Kurt Guntner, piano reduction by Johannes Umbreit

unidentified (MMO) (editor) [2012]

Elmsford: Music Minus One, No. MMO 3102.
— original version, violin part only, including 2 CDs

Full Scores

First Edition [1888]

Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Plate 3338.

Valentina Rachkovskaya (editor) [1949]

Moscow: Muzgiz. Plate M. 19836 Г. P.I. Tchaikovsky: Complete Collected Works, vol.30A (Полное собрание сочинений).
New York: Dover Publications, 1985.
— Plate numbers omitted. Reprinted together with Beethoven's and Mendelssohn's violin concertos in the collection 'Great Romantic Violin Concertos'.

Ernst Herttrich (editor) [2011]

Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel Partitur-Bibliothek. Plate PB 15115.
— Joint Urtext edition with Henle

Miniature Scores

unidentified (editor) [2001]

Minneola: Dover Miniature Scores.
— original version, reprint of older edition, plate numbers removed

unidentified (editor)

Leipzig: Edition Eulenburg, No. 708. Plate EE 3808.
— original version

? (editor) [?]

Wiesbaden: Edition Breitkopf, No. PB 3631.
— original version

unidentified (editor) [ca. 1946]

London: Boosey & Hawkes. Plate B. & H. 8825.
— original version

unidentified (editor)

Leipzig: Edition Peters, No.565. Plate 3808.
— original version

unidentified (editor)

London: E. Donajowski, No.62. Plate 4018.
— original version

Richard Clarke (editor)

London: Edition Eulenburg, No. 708. Plate EE 3808. [2010]
— original version, introduction by Gerald Abraham
London: Edition Eulenburg, Eulenburg Audio+Score No. 44. Plate EAS 144. [2007]
— original version, introduction by Gerald Abraham, contains Naxos CD with Nishizaki

Ernst Herttrich (editor) [2011]

Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel Partitur-Bibliothek. Plate PB 15116.
— Joint Urtext edition with Henle

Clemens Schultze-Biesantz (editor) [1924?]

Braunschweig: Litolff. Plate?.
—?

Orchestral Parts

First Edition [1879]

Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Plate 3337.

Tchaikovsky (editor) [1881]

Hamburg: D. Rahter. Plate?.

Arrangements

Leopold Auer (arranger) [1893]
contains a few cuts and several changes to the violin part

Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Plate? [1893]
Leipzig: D. Rahter, No.178. Plate 1332 (violin), 2954.1332 (piano).
New York: Carl Fischer, No. 848. Plate 21155-25. [1919]
— The title states ‘edited by Leopold Auer', but this is the arrangement.
Frankfurt am Main: Edition Peters, No. 3019b. Plate E.P. 12457. (David Ojstrach and Konstantin Mostras (editor))
New York: International Music Company. Plate 1902. (David Ojstrach and Konstantin Mostras (editor)) [1956]
— includes original and Auer's version
Mainz: Edition Schott, No. 6550. Plate 43344. (Max Rostal (editor)) [1973]
— includes original and Auer's version
St. Louis: Lauren Keiser Music Publishing. (Stephen B. Shipps (editor)) [2011]
— includes original, Auer's and Sevcik's version plus Sevcik's Analytical Studies, associate editor Danae Witter, piano reduction by Dmitri Vorobiev.

Adolph Brodsky (arranger) [1899]
Canzonetta with new coda

Leipzig: D. Rahter. Plate 806 (piano) & 806.1223 (violin).

Jules Conus (arranger) [ca. 1897]
Canzonetta with new coda

Moscow: P. Jurgenson. Plate 20840.

Fritz Kreisler (arranger) [1940]
Kreisler rewrote the whole concerto

New York: Charles Foley, No. 1093.

Karl Nowotny (arranger) [1918]
Canzonetta with new coda

Wien: Anton Goll. Plate A. 715 G. (published in 'Die Geige, Band II')

Otakar Ševčík (arranger) [1931]
contains a few changes to the violin part

Brno: Ol. Pazdirek. Plate O.P. 553.
— Published together with his analytical studies to the concerto. Piano reduction by F. Beck.
St. Louis: Lauren Keiser Music Publishing. (Stephen B. Shipps (editor)) [2011]
— includes original, Auer's and Sevcik's version plus Sevcik's Analytical Studies, associate editor Danae Witter, piano reduction by Dmitri Vorobiev.

August Wilhelmj (arranger) [1910]
contains more cuts and changes than Auer's version

London: Schott. Plate 28315.
New York: Carl Fischer, No. 588. Plate 19910-70.

Eugène Ysaÿe (arranger)
cadenza

manuscript (Juilliard manuscript collection).