Violin Concerto: Scores
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- — the first print contains the already withdrawn dedication to Leopold Auer on the cover page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).
