[1] The second movement, Andante, was completed first, and was premiered in a piano arrangement by Musin and André Messager at the Société Nationale de Musique on 28 December 1878.

[2] In summer 1879, Fauré wrote to Pauline Viardot that he was happy with the progress of the concerto and had material for the last movement, though he would never complete it.

A contemporary reviewer for the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris admired the "inventive" second movement, describing it "full of charm and passion", but counselled Fauré to rework or abandon the "dull and monotonous" opening Allegro.

Themes from the first movement were incorporated into his string quartet that was completed more than forty years later.

[6] The second movement appears to have been destroyed by Fauré himself no later than 1924 – he wrote to his wife in October: "When I get back to Paris I shall spend a little time each day giving you all my sketches and drafts and everything else of which I want nothing to survive after me, so that you can burn them.