Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major

Alternate Title

• None

Composition Year

• 1939

Instrumentation

• 2.2.2.2 - 0.2.0.0 - timp - strings

Length

• 25 min.

Manuscripts

• MC988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
  • Score, Solo Violin, and Piano Reduction, all complete (Dec. 1939): Box 9, Folder 1
  • Violin Solo, incomplete: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Piano Reduction, incomplete: Box 9, Folder 2
  • Orchestra Violin I, incomplete: Box 9, Folder 2

Premiere Performance

• Unknown

Published Editions

• Full Score: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2018.
• Reduction for Violin and Piano: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, Inc., 2018.
  • OCLC: 1138974910

Recordings

• Florence Price: Violin Concertos. Er-Gene Kahng, violin; Ryan Cockerham, conductor; The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra. Albany Records TROY1706, 2018.

Thematic Incipits

• Movement I
• Movement II
• Movement III

Bibliography

1. Baranello, Micaela. “Welcoming a Black Female Composer into the Canon. Finally.” New York Times, February 9, 2018.
2. Hill, Alexandra Kori. “Make the Familiar New: New Negro Modernism in the Concertos of Florence B. Price.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 2022.