Trumpet concerto
A trumpet concerto is a concerto for solo trumpet and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Although comparatively rare compared to concertos for other instruments, some major composers have contributed to the trumpet concerto repertoire, such as Joseph Haydn in his Trumpet Concerto in E-flat.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the modern-day trumpet concerto has occasionally been structured in four or more movements. In some trumpet concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the trumpet is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra.
Selected list of trumpet concertos
The following concertos are presently found near the centre of the mainstream Western repertoire for the trumpet.
Baroque era
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Solo part for trumpet)
Joseph Arnold Gross
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Johann Friedrich Fasch
- Concerto for trumpet and two oboes in D major
Johann Georg Reutter
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Franz Xavier Richter
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Antonio Vivaldi
- Concerto for Two Trumpets RV 537
Francesco Onofrio Manfredini
- Concerto for Two Trumpets in D major
Giuseppe Torelli
- Trumpet Concerto in D, G.9
Johann Christoph Graupner
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Franz Querfurth
- Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
Johann Wilhelm Hertel
- Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
- Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major
- Concerto for Trumpet and Oboe in E flat major
Joseph Riepel
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Valentin Rathgeber
- Concerto for Two Trumpets in E-flat. Op. 6 No. 15
Johann Melchior Molter
- Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in D major MWV 6.32
- Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in D major MWV 6.33
- Trumpet Concerto No. 3 in D major MWV 6.34
- Concerto for Two Trumpets No. 1 in D major MWV 6.27
- Concerto for Two Trumpets No. 2 in D major MWV 6.28
- Concerto for Two Trumpets No. 3 in D major MWV 6.29
- Concerto for Two Trumpets No. 4 in D major MWV 6.30
- Concerto for Two Trumpets No. 5 in D major MWV 6.31
Georg Philipp Telemann
- Trumpet Concerto in D major TWV 51:D7
Classical era
Laue (fl. c. 1760)
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Otto (fl. c. 1770)
- Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
- Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major (keyed trumpet)
- Trumpet Concerto in C major (natural trumpet)
- Trumpet Concerto in D major
Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda
- Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat major (keyed trumpet)
- Trumpet Concerto in E major (keyed trumpet)
- Trumpet Concerto in D major (natural trumpet)
- Trumpet Concerto, K. 47c (1768, lost)
Romantic era
- Concerto for trumpet and wind band in F
- Trumpet Concerto in F minor (originally in E minor)
Modern era
- Concerto for trumpet and symphonic wind orchestra (2011)
- Trumpet Concerto in A-flat major (1950)
Alfred Baum
- Concerto for Trumpet, Piano, Timpani and strings (1959/60)[1]
- Concerto barocco for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 33 (1977)
- Trumpet Concerto (1988)
- Concerto for Cootie
Michael Gilbertson
- Trumpet Concerto (2017)
Geoffrey Gordon
- CHASE – A Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra after Giacometti (2017)
- Trumpet Concerto, night-sky-blue (2022)
- Concertino for trumpet, piano, and orchestra (1948)
- Concerto for trumpet (1954)
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 74 (2001)
John Mackey
- Antique Violences: Concerto for Trumpet (2017)
- UT for trumpet, timpani, bass drum and string orchestra
- Trumpet Concerto (2019)
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
- Heaven´s Light (Himmelslicht), concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Christopher Rouse
- Concerto for trumpet, strings and timpani (2018) (Nimbus NI 6374)
- The Falcon's Trumpet
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, composed for Armando Ghitalla
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1948)
- Trumpet Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 94 (1968)
- Towards Paradise (2021)
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1963)
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1996)
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (2003)[2]
- American Concerto (1994)
- Aerial, Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1998–99), composed for Håkan Hardenberger
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- Accordion concerto
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- Clarinet concerto
- Concerto for solo piano
- Double bass concerto
- Double concerto for violin and cello
- English horn concerto
- Flute concerto
- Harmonica concerto
- Harp concerto
- Harpsichord concerto
- Marimba concerto
- Oboe concerto
- Organ concerto
- Percussion concerto
- Piano concerto
- Saxophone concerto
- Timpani concerto
- Trombone concerto
- Triple concertos for violin, cello, and piano
- Trumpet concerto
- Viola concerto
- Violin concerto
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