Violin Concerto No. 3 (Paganini)

The Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major was composed by Niccolò Paganini in 1826. On 12 December 1826, Paganini wrote from Naples to his friend L. G. Germi that, having recently completed his Second Violin Concerto, he had now "finished orchestrating a third with a Polacca", and added: "I would like to try these concertos out on my own countrymen before producing them in Vienna, London and Paris." In the event, the Third Violin Concerto does not seem to have been premiered until July 1828 in Vienna. After Paganini's death in 1840, it was not performed again for more than a century, until it was rediscovered in the late 1960s and first recorded and publicly performed by Henryk Szeryng in 1971.

Structure

The concerto is in three movements:

  1. Introduzione. Andantino - Allegro marziale (in E major)
  2. Adagio. Cantabile spianato (in A major)
  3. Polacca. Andantino vivace (in E major)
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Concertos
  • No. 1 in D/E-flat major
  • No. 2 in B minor
  • No. 3 in E major
  • No. 4 in D minor
  • No. 5 in A minor
  • No. 6 in E minor (incomplete)
Caprices
  • Caprice No. 5
  • Caprice No. 13
  • Caprice No. 16
  • Caprice No. 24
Portrayals
  • Paganini (1923 film)
  • Paganini (1925 operetta)
  • Paganini (1934 film)
  • The Magic Bow (1946 film)
  • Paganini Horror (1989 film)
  • Paganini (1989 film)
  • The Devil's Violinist (2013 film)
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