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Concerto composed by Beethoven in 1806

For Beethoven's early violin concerto, see Violin Concerto in C (Beethoven).

The Violin Concerto in D major, Op.

61, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1806. Its first performance by Franz Clement was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by the then 12-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim with the orchestra of the London Philharmonic Society conducted by Felix Mendelssohn.

Joachim would later claim it to be the "greatest" German violin concerto.^[1] Since then it has become one of the best-known and regularly performed violin concertos.

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Genesis

Beethoven had previously written a number of pieces for violin and orchestra. At some point in 1790–2, before his musical maturity, he began a Violin Concerto in C, of which only a fragment of the first movement survives.

Whether the work, or even the first movement, had ever been completed is not