Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 7
Composer
Key
D Major, D minor, A Major
Nationality
German
Time Signature
4/4, 6/8
LISTING
Annotation
Movement I
Key: D Major
Range: G3-A6
Tempo: Allegro Moderato
Time Signature: 4/4
Left Hand
- 1st – 7th position
- 7th position only used for 4 beats in a scale pattern
- Natural harmonics in 1st and 3rd position
- Trills
- 9 measures in Eb Major (key signature does not change; uses accidentals)
- Sustained double stop – top note sustained open string, lower note fingered
- Arpeggios in 16th notes – D Major and A Major chords
Bowing
- Martelé
- Detaché Porté
- Accented Detaché
- Legato – 20 measures transitioning into Allegretto movement
Rhythm
- Mini Cadenza – 4 beats with arpeggiated 16ths
Movement II
Key: D Minor
Range: G3-F6
Tempo: Allegretto
Time Signature: 6/8
Left Hand
- 1st – 5th position
- 5th position only used for 4 beats in a scale pattern
- Fingered to use 4th finger extension both in 1st and 3rd positions
- Double-stops – 4 measures that include all intervals from unison – fingered octave
Bowing
- Legato detaché
- Rapid detaché written as measured tremolo – 16th notes
- 2 sixteenths slurred – double stop with open string and one finger
Rhythm
- 1 32nd note rest and 1 32nd note
- Ties from eighth note to sixteenth note
Movement III
Key: A Major
Range: G3-E6
Tempo: Adagio
Time Signature: 4/4
Left Hand
- 1st – 5th position
- 2 double-stops – one of which includes a turn on the top note
- Rapid 16th and 32nd runs; 1 including a short chromatic section;
- Fingered harmonic in 3rd position – sounding A6
Bowing
- Legato detaché
- Up-bow staccato – triplets
- Up-bow louré
- Detaché porté
Rhythm
- 32nd notes
- Septulet run
- Free measure with 1 scale run and 1 arpeggiated run between fermatas
Movement IV
Key: D Major
Range: G3-F#6
Tempo: Allegro
Time Signature: 6/8
Left Hand
- 1st – 4th position
- Fingered for a fast shift from 3rd position into 5th position for F#6 for 1 eighth note, then back to 3rd position.
- Natural harmonics
- Rapid sixteenth scale and arpeggio passages
- 5 measures of trills
- 14 measures fingered double-stop sixteenths
Bowing
- Spiccato – both single and double-stop notes
- Left Hand Pizzicato – 2 notes (open strings) – 3 measures
- Accented Detaché
- 8 Measures of measured tremolo
* No breaks between movements
Recording
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