A very famous composer wrote an also very famous violin concerto that has been recorded dozen of times, but the version everybody plays is not the first, but a completely revised one. The first and previous one was much longer, technically more difficult, but musically inferior. Who was the composer?

22crows

Jean Sibelius, perhaps. "The Violin Concerto in D minor, opus 47 by Jean Sibelius premiered in 1903 in Helsinki. Sibelius withheld this version from publication and made substantial revisions. The premiere performance was a disaster. Although the original version had good material, Sibelius deleted a lot of material that did not work. The new version premiered in 1905, in Berlin, with Richard Strauss conducting and Karl Halir as soloist . The work is dedicated to noted violinist Franz von Vecsey. The initial version was noticeably more demanding on the advanced skills of the soloist and was revived in the early 1990s on the BIS record label by violinist Leonidas Kavakos, with the permission of Sibelius' heirs. The revised version still requires a considerably high level of technical facility on the part of the soloist." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Sibelius) Jan 01 08, 12:09 AM