Burmester was so offended that he refused ever to play the concerto, and Sibelius re-dedicated it to the Hungarian 'wunderkind' Ferenc von Vecsey, who was aged only 12 at the time. Willy Burmester was again asked to be the soloist, but he was again unavailable, so the performance went ahead without him, the orchestra's leader Karel HalГЕ™ stepping into the soloist's shoes. The new version premiered on 19 October 1905 with Richard Strauss conducting the Berlin Court Orchestra. He deleted much material he felt did not work. Sibelius withheld this version from publication and made substantial revisions. He was the first violinist hired by Martin Wegelius for the Helsinki Institute, and in 1910 he participated in the premiere of Sibelius's string quartet Voces intimae, which received favourable reviews. However, NovГЎДЌek was not the poor player he is sometimes painted as. Given these factors, it was unwise of Sibelius to choose NovГЎДЌek, who was a teacher and not a recognised soloist, and it is not surprising that the premiere was a disaster. Sibelius had barely finished the work in time for the premiere, giving NovГЎДЌek little time to prepare, and the piece was of such difficulty that it would have sorely tested even a player of much greater skill.

The initial version of the concerto premiered on 8В February 1904, with Sibelius conducting. For financial reasons, however, Sibelius decided to premiere it in Helsinki, and since Burmester was unavailable to travel to Finland, Sibelius engaged Victor NovГЎДЌek (1873вЂ“1914), a Hungarian violin pedagogue of Czech origin who was then teaching at the Helsinki Institute of Music (now the Sibelius Academy). Sibelius originally dedicated the concerto to the noted violinist Willy Burmester, who promised to play the concerto in Berlin.

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