Krasner performed the solo part in the premiere at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, in April 1936, four months after the composer's death.

In a letter to Krasner dated 16 July 1935, Berg wrote: "Yesterday I finished the composition [without the orchestration] of our Violin Concerto.

Adagio (Chorale Variations) The work begins with an Andante in classical sonata form, followed by the Allegretto, a dance-like section.

The second movement starts with an Allegro largely based on a single recurring rhythmic cell; this section has been described as cadenza-like, with very difficult passages in the solo part.

Like many of Berg's works, the piece combines the twelve-tone technique, typical of serialist music learned from his teacher Arnold Schoenberg, with passages written in a freer, more tonal style.

The resulting triads are thus fifth-related and form a cadence, which we hear directly before the row is played by the violin for the first time.

Bach composed a four-part setting of the hymn by Franz Joachim Burmeister with a melody by Johann Rudolph Ahle to conclude his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 (O eternity, you thunderous word).

[7][a] Bryan Simms and Charlotte Erwin described it, "A Vögele af'n Zweschpm-bam",[b] as a "yodeling song with a saucy, ribald text".

That was finally done in the 1990s by Professor Douglas Jarman, Principal Lecturer in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.