It appears to have been written for his father, Franz Anton Ries, who gave the first (and only known) performance of the work at a concert in Bonn on 15 December 1810.
[1] Following the performance, Ries started to revise the work with the intent of publishing it as his Op.
24.,[a] However for reasons unknown, this did not take place until 1885, when the firm Ries & Erler published it for Violin and Piano in 1885.
[2] For many years it was believed that the orchestral parts for the concerto were lost, however two manuscript copies of the parts, one by Ferdinand Ries, the other by a copyist, were discovered in the Berlin State Library.
[1] It is scored for violin solo, double woodwind, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.