A Dresden manuscript that may have been transcribed in the early 18th century is the earliest known version of the chaconne, but it was not published until 1867 when Ferdinand David arranged it for violin and piano.

Jascha Heifetz began his American debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1917 with the chaconne and regularly performed it as part of his concert repertoire for the next four decades.

[1][6] The chaconne was first published in 1867 by the German musician Ferdinand David in the second volume of his Die hohe Schule des Violinspiels, a collection of 18th-century compositions for violin.

In 1964, the German musicologist Hermann Keller published an analysis in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik casting doubt on the idea that Vitali was the composer.

[7] The Belgian violinist and music teacher Léopold Charlier wrote an arrangement of the chaconne for violin and piano that was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1911.

[11][12] It is the version most commonly performed in concert and most editions of the chaconne that have been published since, including ones by Leopold Auer, Zino Francescatti and Ottorino Respighi, are based on Charlier's arrangement.

[1][11] Il Vitalino raddoppiato is a work for violin and chamber orchestra, written by the German composer Hans Werner Henze and published in 1977.

[14][15] While Il Vitalino raddoppiato begins in a similar style to the original chaconne, it incorporates more modern and experimental sounds in the last third of the piece, including deconstructed harmonies and a "hallucinatory cadenza".

[13][14] It received praise from music critics for its style and interpretation of the chaconne; Samuel Lipman presented it as a "serious and even profound" example of the deconstruction of a classical composition, and Andrew Clements of The Guardian described it as "[s]ometimes acerbic, sometimes achingly beautiful".

Charlier's arrangement of the chaconne was the first piece of Jascha Heifetz's 1917 American debut at Carnegie Hall, accompanied by Frank L. Sealey on the organ.

[27] Other notable violinists who have recorded the chaconne are Zino Francescatti, Sarah Chang, Nathan Milstein, David Oistrakh, and Henryk Szeryng.