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Violin concertos ranked from easy to hard:

How hard are the Mendelssohn, Bruch and Paganini violin concertos to play?

Even when you’ve just started to play violin it’s possible to play beginner and after that intermediate violin concertos.

Did you know that there are concertos all in first position?

Below I’m rating the most well known violin concertos from easy to hard. We begin with students concertos by Küchler, Rieding and Seitz. Then we continue with the ‘big concertos’ by Mozart, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Brahms.

We end with some of the most difficult modern violin concertos.

I’ll go into exactly what makes all these violin concertos so hard or easy to play and what violin technique is needed to play them.

#1 Ferdinand Küchler: Violin Concerto in D Major in the style of Vivaldi (1937)

Length: 6 minutes (3 movements)
Positions: Almost entirely 1st position with a tiny bit of