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 Joseph Arnold Gross Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Georg Reutter Franz Xavier Richter Antonio Vivaldi Francesco Onofrio Manfredini Giuseppe Torelli Johann Christoph Graupner Franz Querfurth Johann Wilhelm Hertel Joseph Riepel Valentin Rathgeber Johann Melchior Molter Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Solo part for trumpet)
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major
 * Concerto for trumpet and two oboes in D major
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major
 * Concerto for Two Trumpets RV 537
 * Concerto for Two Trumpets in D major
 * Trumpet Concerto in D, G.9
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major
 * Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major
 * 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
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major
 * Concerto for Two Trumpets in E-flat. Op. 6 No. 15
 * 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
 * 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

Joseph Haydn
 * Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major (keyed trumpet)

Michael Haydn
 * Trumpet Concerto in C major (natural trumpet)
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major

Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda
 * Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat major (keyed trumpet)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
 * Trumpet Concerto in E major (keyed trumpet)

Leopold Mozart
 * Trumpet Concerto in D major (natural trumpet)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Trumpet Concerto, K. 47c (1768, lost)

Romantic era
Amilcare Ponchielli
 * Concerto for trumpet and wind band in F

Oskar Böhme
 * Trumpet Concerto in F minor (originally in E minor)

Modern era
Kalevi Aho
 * Concerto for trumpet and symphonic wind orchestra (2011)

Alexander Arutunian
 * Trumpet Concerto in A-flat major (1950)

Alfred Baum
 * Concerto for Trumpet, Piano, Timpani and strings (1959/60)

Herbert Blendinger
 * Concerto barocco for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 33 (1977)

Peter Maxwell Davies
 * Trumpet Concerto (1988)

Duke Ellington
 * Concerto for Cootie

Michael Gilbertson
 * Trumpet Concerto (2017)

Geoffrey Gordon
 * CHASE – A Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra after Giacometti (2017)

Helen Grime
 * Trumpet Concerto, night-sky-blue (2022)

André Jolivet
 * Concertino for trumpet, piano, and orchestra (1948)
 * Concerto for trumpet (1954)

Lowell Liebermann
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 74 (2001)

John Mackey
 * Antique Violences: Concerto for Trumpet (2017)

Ennio Morricone
 * UT for trumpet, timpani, bass drum and string orchestra

Thea Musgrave
 * Trumpet Concerto (2019)

William P. Perry
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra

Gerhard Präsent
 * Heaven´s Light (Himmelslicht), concerto for trumpet and orchestra

Christopher Rouse
 * Heimdall's Trumpet

Philip Sawyers
 * Concerto for trumpet, strings and timpani (2018) (Nimbus NI 6374)

R. Murray Schafer
 * The Falcon's Trumpet

Frank Ticheli
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, composed for Armando Ghitalla

Henri Tomasi
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1948)

Mieczysław Weinberg
 * Trumpet Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 94 (1968)

Jörg Widmann
 * Towards Paradise (2021)

Grace Williams
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1963)

John Williams
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1996)

Joe Wolfe
 * Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (2003)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
 * American Concerto (1994)

Heinz Karl Gruber
 * Aerial, Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1998–99), composed for Håkan Hardenberger