Violin Concerto No. 1 may refer to any composers' first violin concerto, or to a composer's only violin concerto:
Erick Friedman (August 14, 1939 – March 30, 2004) is considered by many as one of the greatest American born violinists of the past century.
 Erick Friedman's illustrious career took him to many of the great concert stages of the world appearing as guest soloist with most of the great orchestras throughout the United States and abroad: the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony, the orchestras of New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Miami, Detroit, Indianapolis, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris and many other major orchestras throughout the world.
 Karajan, Stokowski, Steinberg, Leinsdorf, Previn, and Ozawa are some of the celebrated conductors with whom he collaborated with.
 Mr. Friedman's recordings for RCA Victor earned him accolades including the prestigious Grammy Award.
 Mr. Friedman has been featured playing the Bartók Violin Concerto in an A&E Television Production on Bartók which was released worldwide.
 His tribute to Fritz Kreisler is available on VHS at online vendors including Amazon.
 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Isadore Freed, Ezra Laderman, and Laurent Petitgirard are some of the internationally celebrated composers who wrote and/or dedicated compositions to him.
 Erick Friedman studied at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian.
 At age fourteen he began studies with Nathan Milstein and later worked with the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz with whom he recorded the Bach Double Violin Concerto for RCA Victor.
 Mr. Friedman and Mr. Heifetz can be seen performing the Bach Double in the 1962 TV series Heifeitz Masterclass.
 In the early 1970s, Mr. Friedman was on the violin faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
 He later held faculty positions at the Manhattan School of Music, Southern Methodist University, and the Yale School of Music.
The Violin Concerto No. 1 is the first violin concerto by the British composer Peter Maxwell Davies.
 It was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to commemorate the ensemble's 40th anniversary.
 The work was completed in 1985 and first performed at the St Magnus Festival by the violinist Isaac Stern and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by André Previn on 21 June 1986.
 The piece is dedicated to Isaac Stern.
The Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Opus 77, was originally written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1947–48.
 He was still working on the piece at the time of the Zhdanov decree, and in the period following the composer's denunciation the work could not be performed.
 In the time between the work's initial completion and the first performance on 29 October 1955, the composer and its dedicatee, David Oistrakh, worked on a number of revisions.
 The work was finally premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yevgeny Mravinsky.
 It was well received, Oistrakh remarking on the "depth of its artistic content" and describing the violin part as a "pithy 'Shakespearian' role".
The Violin Concerto No. 3 in E major was composed by Niccolò Paganini in 1826.
 On 12 December 1826, Paganini wrote from Naples to his friend L. G. Germi that, having recently completed his Second Violin Concerto, he had now "finished orchestrating a third with a Polacca", and added: "I would like to try these concertos out on my own countrymen before producing them in Vienna, London and Paris."
 In the event, the Third Violin Concerto does not seem to have been premiered until July 1828 in Vienna.
 Since Paganini's death in 1840 concerto wasn't performed for more than a century until it was eventually rediscovered in the late 1960s and first recorded and publically performed by Henryk Szeryng in 1971.
François Boucher (1860c.
 1936) was a Canadian violinist and music educator.
 Born in Montreal, Boucher was the son of Canadian publisher and musician Adélard Joseph Boucher and the brother of conductor Joseph-Arthur Boucher.
 His initial violin studies were with Jules Hone and Frantz Jehin-Prume.
 In 1876 he went to Europe to study at the Royal Conservatory of Liège with Lambert Massart.
 After returning to Canada, he had a triumphany success in Montreal performing Felix Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64" in 1881.
 In 1882 he and his father established a successful music store in Ottawa.
 That same year he began playing first violin in a string quartet and working as a teacher.
 In 1887 he joined the faculty of the Toronto Conservatory of Music.
 He taught concurrently at the Toronto College of Music beginning in 1889.
 He was a soloist with the Toronto Philharmonic Society in 1893 where he had success performing Max Bruch's "Violin Concerto No. 1".
 In 1894 he emigrated to the United States.
 In 1906 he joined the faculty of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he taught through 1923.
 His wife taught piano at the conservatory and his daughter was later a singing teacher at the school.
 He died in Kansas City.
Tasmin Little, OBE (born 13 May 1965) is an English classical violinist.
 She is best known and widely acclaimed as a concerto soloist, and also performs as a recitalist and chamber musician.
 She has released numerous albums, winning the Critics Award at the Classic Brit Awards in 2011 for her recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto.
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 was written in 1937–38.
 During the composer's life, it was known simply as his Violin Concerto.
 (His other violin concerto, Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz.
 36, BB 48a was written in the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death, as "Violin Concerto No. 1, Op.
 posth.")
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op.
 77, was composed by Johannes Brahms in 1878 and dedicated to his friend, the violinist Joseph Joachim.
 It is Brahms's only violin concerto, and, according to Joachim, one of the four great German violin concerti:
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1908 – 24 October 1974) was a renowned Soviet classical violinist and violist.

Question: Violin Concerto No. 1 was dedicated to the classical violinist of what nationality?
Answer: Soviet