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The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 for the violist Lionel Tertis at the suggestion of Sir Thomas Beecham. The concerto carries the dedication "To Christabel" (Christabel McLaren, Lady Aberconway). When Tertis rejected the manuscript, composer and violist Paul Hindemith gave the first performance. The work was greeted with enthusiasm. It brought Walton to the forefront of British classical music. In ''The Manchester Guardian'', Eric Blom wrote, "This young composer is a born genius" and said that it was tempting to call the concerto the best thing in recent music of any nationality.〔"A Fine British Concert", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 22 August 1930, p. 5, reviewing the second London performance.〕 Tertis soon changed his mind and took the work up. Walton and Hindemith's collaboration on the concerto engendered a close friendship that lasted until the latter's death in 1963. A performance by Tertis at a Three Choirs Festival concert in Worcester in 1932 was the only occasion on which Walton met Elgar, whom he greatly admired. Elgar, however, did not share the general enthusiasm for Walton's concerto.〔Kennedy, p. 52〕〔Tertis had premiered Elgar's own "Viola Concerto" two years earlier – an arrangement of the Cello Concerto for the viola. See ''The Musical Times'', April 1934, p. 318〕 ==Structure== The work follows the standard three-movement format for a concerto: # Andante comodo # Vivo, con moto preciso # Allegro moderato The concerto was modeled on Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto, which Walton admired. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viola Concerto (Walton)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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