first violin
1first violin — UK US noun [countable] [singular first violin plural first violins] music a musician who plays the violin in an orchestra and belongs to the most important group of violinists …
2first violin — noun a) The lead or primary violin role in an orchestra or other ensemble, or in a musical composition, that typically contains the melody and is often more technically demanding than the second violin role. The first violin role is played by a… …
3first violin — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms first violin : singular first violin plural first violins music a musician who plays the violin in an orchestra and belongs to the most important group of violinists …
4first violin — best violin player who sits in the front and closest to the conductor during an orchestral performance …
5Violin Concerto No. 1 — may refer to any composers first violin concerto, or to a composer s only violin concerto:*Violin Concerto (Barber) *Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók) *Violin Concerto (Beethoven) in D major *Violin Concerto (Berg) (atonal) *Violin Concerto (Brahms) …
6Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn) — Portrait of Mendelssohn, 1839. Felix Mendelssohn s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin… …
7Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart) — The Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Salzburg in 1775. Mozart was only 19 at the time. Contents 1 Movements 1.1 I. Allegro 1.2 II. Adagio 1.3 …
8Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev) — Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, opus 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He returned to the concerto in the summer of 1917. It premiered on October 18, 1923 at the Paris …
9violin — noun /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/ a) A musical four string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers. The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a… …
10Violin Sonata (Janáček) — Violin Sonata for violin and piano is the work of the Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854 1928). It was written in the summer of 1914, but it was not Janáček’s first attempt to create such a composition. He resolved to compose violin sonata already …
