Rieding O. Concerto in B minor. Version for violin and string orchestra

Oskar Rieding (1840–1918) was a German violinist, teacher of music, and composer of many pieces for violin and piano. Born in North of Germany, he attended first the recently founded Academy of Musical Arts in Berlin, and later the Leipzig Conservatory. At the end of the 1860s, he moved to Vienna, where in 1871, the conductor, Hans Richter, at that time Musical Director of the National Opera House in Budapest, appointed Rieding as leader of the orchestra. He remained there for thirty-two years, and composed some violin concertos and many drill pieces for violin and piano. After his retirement in 1904, he lived in Cilli (today Slovenia) until his death in 1918.

His Junior Concerto is an ABC for any young violinist, the “must-have-been-performed” piece. Being usually the first Concerto in the young violinist career, beautiful and instructive, it usually opens the door to the miraculous world of violin.