Evolution of Violin Concertos | Twoset Violin

Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto was called “vulgar” and “worthless” by his peers. In 1874, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, aged 34, eagerly played his new piano concerto for pianist Nikolai Rubinstein. But the response? A tirade of insults. Heartbroken Tchaikovsky turned instead to Hans von Bülow, a renowned pianist and conductor who was delighted with the concerto and added it to his 1875 tour of the United States. It was a smash hit — Bülow programmed it over one hundred times during the tour, an