Karl Goldmark composed his violin concerto in 1877,
The premiere of the Violin Concerto was certainly held in Vienna on 10 November 1878, after the manuscript had been completed.
The soloist, Johann Christoph Lauterbach, was accompanied by the orchestra of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde conducted by Eduard Kremser.
Several contemporary critics reported about the playing and performance, and the reception was not entirely positive. But despite the far from unanimously positive opinion of his contemporaries, one hundred and forty years later it seems clear that one of Goldmark’s major works composed after his “The Queen of Sheba” is certainly the Violin Concerto, which was played in concerts even around the middle of the 20th century, and can claim a virtually unbroken performance tradition.
Also, in recent decades, it has been experiencing a distinct renaissance, enriching the romantic concerto repertoire of generations of young violinists.
Here is violinist Hilary Hahn, to play the second and third movements from the Goldmark Concerto:
