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
- 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
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
Joseph Haydn
Michael Haydn
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
- Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat major (keyed trumpet)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Leopold Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
Alfred Baum
- Concerto for Trumpet, Piano, Timpani and strings (1959/60)[1]
Herbert Blendinger
- Concerto barocco for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 33 (1977)
Peter Maxwell Davies
Duke Ellington
Michael Gilbertson
Geoffrey Gordon
- CHASE – A Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra after Giacometti (2017)
Helen Grime
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
William P. Perry
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Gerhard Präsent
- Heaven´s Light (Himmelslicht), concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Christopher Rouse
Philip Sawyers
- Concerto for trumpet, strings and timpani (2018) (Nimbus NI 6374)
R. Murray Schafer
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
Grace Williams
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1963)
John Williams
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1996)
Joe Wolfe
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (2003)[2]
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Heinz Karl Gruber
