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jvvg · 2013-02-10 21:15:44

I wrote the hardest violin concerto ever: jvvg Violin Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor and F Minor.
It is a concerto, although I only wrote the orchestra part for a piano - there is no full orchestra version available.

It is in the keys of B Flat Minor and F Minor, ending in F Major.

The tempo ranges from adagio to presto assai (quarter note = 500).
It is the hardest violin concerto written by any composer ever. The fast tempo in some places, the long jumps (up to 2 octaves) and the key combined make this extremely difficult.

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dontbombiraq · 2013-02-10 21:25:15

Paganini's Caprice no. 24 is harder.

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jvvg · 2013-02-10 21:38:18

dontbombiraq wrote:
Paganini's Caprice no. 24 is harder.

Is it harder than the "Presto Assai" (quarter note = 500) sections of mine?

dontbombiraq · 2013-02-10 21:41:38

jvvg wrote:
dontbombiraq wrote:
Paganini's Caprice no. 24 is harder.
Is it harder than the "Presto Assai" (quarter note = 500) sections of mine?

Have you listened to it?
Speed doesn't always equal difficulty; your notes are spaced rather close together compared to Paganini's.

jvvg · 2013-02-10 21:53:11

dontbombiraq wrote:
jvvg wrote:
dontbombiraq wrote:
Paganini's Caprice no. 24 is harder.
Is it harder than the "Presto Assai" (quarter note = 500) sections of mine?
Have you listened to it?
Speed doesn't always equal difficulty; your notes are spaced rather close together compared to Paganini's.

In some parts, I have notes spaced over an octave apart.

dontbombiraq · 2013-02-10 22:20:37

jvvg wrote:
dontbombiraq wrote:
jvvg wrote:

Is it harder than the "Presto Assai" (quarter note = 500) sections of mine?
Have you listened to it?
Speed doesn't always equal difficulty; your notes are spaced rather close together compared to Paganini's.
In some parts, I have notes spaced over an octave apart.

Still harder...not to mention more musically advanced.

luiysia · 2013-02-10 22:45:02

have you played both though

jvvg · 2013-02-11 10:39:32

luiysia wrote:
have you played both though

No, I can't play violin. This one is actually unplayable.

slinger · 2013-02-11 11:20:13

If you don't play violin then how do you know it's unplayable?

jvvg · 2013-02-11 14:51:41

slinger wrote:
If you don't play violin then how do you know it's unplayable?

I have a friend who does (and is very good) who looked at it. In this case, it isn't that hard to tell it's unplayable.

playzooki · 2013-02-11 15:09:51

And what about this on violin? Try play this!

luiysia · 2013-02-11 15:48:05

jvvg wrote:
luiysia wrote:
have you played both though
No, I can't play violin. This one is actually unplayable.

i was talking to dontbombiraq but ok

dontbombiraq · 2013-02-11 16:33:13

luiysia wrote:
jvvg wrote:
luiysia wrote:
have you played both though
No, I can't play violin. This one is actually unplayable.
i was talking to dontbombiraq but ok

Take a wild guess.

wiimaster · 2013-02-11 17:19:50

Unplayability is not difficulty, it is impossibility.
I suppose technically you could define Impossibly as 'extremely difficult to a length that is un-performable by man', but I wouldn't consider it being a hard song.
Anyone can slap a bunch of notes on a staff and say 'the tempo is at 500 bpm!!!!'. But if you ask me, they are not entitled to say 'I made a hard, complex violin concerto'.
Just my opinion though

luiysia · 2013-02-11 18:14:06

yeah
like, you could just write a concerto that has nothing but eight note chords at 800 bpm with only sixteenth notes but it wouldn't necessarily be something to be proud of

jvvg · 2013-02-11 20:01:11

Calm down, people! (although you may not all be people, as this is the internet; on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog, so I'm sorry if I offended anyone who's not a person) I didn't mean to start a huge controversy over this, I just wrote an violin concerto recently (and all the violin players I know tell me it's unplayable), and I wanted a post that people would actually read.

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jvvg · 2013-02-13 10:09:32

I'm going to try writing a full orchestra version of it soon.

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