Oboe concerto

A number of concertos (as well as non-concerto works) have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument(s), and accompanied by string orchestra, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, concert band, or similar large ensemble.

These include concertos by the following composers:

Baroque

Tomaso Albinoni Johann Sebastian Bach (reconstruction from harpsichord concerto) Johann Friedrich Fasch Christoph Förster Carl Heinrich Graun Christoph Graupner George Frideric Handel Johann Adolph Hasse Alessandro Marcello Johann Joachim Quantz Alessandro Scarlatti Giovanni Battista Sammartini Giuseppe Sammartini Georg Philipp Telemann Antonio Vivaldi

Classical

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Johann Christian Bach Ludwig van Beethoven[1] Carlo Besozzi Domenico Cimarosa Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Josef Fiala Joseph Haydn (spurious) William Herschel Franz Anton Hoffmeister

Ignaz Holzbauer Jan Antonín Koželuh Franz Krommer Ludwig August Lebrun Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Antonio Rosetti Antonio Salieri Carl Stamitz Johann Stamitz Peter von Winter

Romantic

• Vincenzo Bellini
• Jan Kalivoda
• Bernhard Molique
• Antonio Pasculli
• Richard Strauss's Concerto
• Carl Maria von Weber (spurious)

Contemporary

Kalevi Aho William Alwyn Hendrik Andriessen Malcolm Arnold Tadeusz Baird Sally Beamish David Bedford Arthur Benjamin (on themes of Domenico Cimarosa) Lennox Berkeley Michael Berkeley John Biggs Judith Bingham Anthony Burgess Edwin Carr Elliott Carter[2] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco John Corigliano[3] Peter Maxwell Davies[4] Edison Denisov Bill Douglas Joël-François Durand Ross Edwards Lukas Foss Jean Françaix John Gardner Eugene Goossens Michael Zev Gordon Helen Grime

John Harbison Christos Hatzis Frigyes Hidas Jennifer Higdon[5] Alan Hovhaness Jacques Ibert Gordon Jacob John Joubert Jouni Kaipainen Graeme Koehne Thomas Oboe Lee Malcolm Lipkin Bent Lorentzen Salvatore Macchia James MacMillan[6] Bruno Maderna Ursula Mamlok Bohuslav Martinů Peter Mieg Darius Milhaud Anthony Milner Paul Moravec Dominic Muldowney David Mullikin Thea Musgrave Arne Nordheim

Sean Osborn Haim Permont Osmo Tapio Räihälä Bernard Rands Alan Rawsthorne George Rochberg Christopher Rouse[7] Edwin Roxburgh Andrey Rubtsov Poul Ruders Harald Sæverud Peter Schickele Roger Steptoe Hilary Tann Ralph Vaughan Williams Carl Vine Gwyneth Walker Grace Williams John Williams Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari John Woolrich Marco Aurelio Yano Isang Yun Eugene Zador Bernd Alois Zimmermann Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

References

1. "Beethoven's lost oboe concerto performed". USA Today. March 2, 2003. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
2. Carter, Elliott (1987). "Oboe Concerto: Programme Note". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
3. Corigliano, John. Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1975). G. Schirmer Inc. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
4. Davies, Peter Maxwell (1987). "Strathclyde Concerto No. 1 for Oboe and Orchestra: Programme Note". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 8, 2015.
5. Anthony, Michael (November 5, 2005). "Music Review: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Higdon's new Oboe Concerto produces a standing ovation". Star Tribune.
6. MacMillan, James (2010). "MacMillan, James: Oboe Concerto". Boosey & Hawkes. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
7. Smith, Steve (November 17, 2013). "Shifting Gears to Explore the Realm of the Oboe: Liang Wang Performs Christopher Rouse's Oboe Concerto". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2015.

See also

• Concerto
• Bass oboe concerto
• English horn concerto
• Oboe d'amore concerto
• Bassoon concerto