It premiered on 1 December 1935 at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid, with the French violinist Robert Soetens and the Madrid Symphony Orchestra conducted by Enrique Fernández Arbós. Prokofiev wrote it after the first performance of his Sonata for Two Violins, by Soetens and Samuel Dushkin, which pleased him greatly. Dushkin had just recently had a concerto written for him, by Igor Stravinsky, so Prokofiev did the same for Soetens. Prokofiev was on a concert tour with Soetens while he was working on the concerto, and later wrote, "The number of places in which I wrote the Concerto shows the kind of nomadic concert-tour life I led then. The main theme of the 1st movement was written in Paris, the first theme of the 2nd movement at Voronezh, the orchestration was finished in Baku and the premiere was given in Madrid."

Date of composition 1935
Premiered 1935, December 1st in Madrid, Spain
Type Concerto
Tonality G Minor
Catalogue Op. 63
Approx. duration 27 minutes
Instruments Orchestra
Violin
Autotranslations beta Sergueï Prokofiev: Concerto pour violon n°2 en sol mineur, Op. 63
Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev: Concerto per violino n. 2 in sol minore, Op. 63
Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew: Konzert Nr. 2 für Violine g-moll, Op. 63