Violin Concerto

Rainer Bischof's concerto for violin and orchestra carries the opus number 62 and the title Der narrische Uhu; it was completed in 2001 and first performed on 21 September that year in Jenbach, in the Tyrol. Bischof, born in Vienna in 1947, took a doctorate in philosophy and studied composition privately with Hans Erich Apostel, a pupil of Berg and Schoenberg, and his music holds to the language of the Second Viennese School. He was general secretary of the Vienna Symphony from 1988. The concerto lasts about thirty minutes.