Rondino

Rondino for violin and orchestra by the composer and violinist Fritz Kreisler was written in acknowledgement of a brief Rondo in G major for violin and piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Originally intended as the final movement of Beethoven’s Wind Octet in E flat major, the composer abandoned this idea and published the work in 1808 without an opus number. In Rondino, Kreisler takes Beethoven’s principle theme in a completely different direction, supplementing it with accompanying and contrasting passages of his own composition. Péter Wolf subsequently adapted Kreisler’s Rondino for violin and chamber orchestra and a further version was created for solo violin and string orchestra by Nils Thore Røsth in 2013.