Violin Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
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The Violin Concerto No. 2 in C♯ minor, Op. 129, was Dmitri Shostakovich's last concerto. He wrote it in the spring of 1967 and intended it to serve as a 60th birthday present for its dedicatee, David Oistrakh, in September. Shostakovich had mistaken Oistrakh's age, however; he actually turned 59 that year.[a] It was premiered unofficially in Bolshevo, near Moscow, on 13 September 1967, and officially on 26 September by Oistrakh and the Moscow Philharmonic under Kirill Kondrashin in Moscow.[1]
