Oboe concerto explained

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 (lost)^[1]
• Carlo Besozzi
• Domenico Cimarosa
• Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
• Josef Fiala
• Joseph Haydn (doubtful)
• William Herschel
• Franz Anton Hoffmeister
• Ignaz Holzbauer
• Jan Antonín Koželuh
• Franz Krommer
• Ludwig August Lebrun
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (concerto)
• Antonio Rosetti
• Antonio Salieri
• Carl Stamitz
• Johann Stamitz
• Peter von Winter

Romantic

• Vincenzo Bellini (concerto)
• Gaetano Donizetti
• Jan Kalivoda
• Bernhard Molique
• Antonio Pasculli
• Richard Strauss (concerto)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (concerto)
• Carl Maria von Weber (spurious)

Modern/Contemporary

• Kalevi Aho
• William Alwyn
  • Hendrik Andriessen
• Malcolm Arnold
• Walter Aschaffenburg
• 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
• Malcolm D Robertson
• George Rochberg
• Christopher Rouse^[7]
• Edwin Roxburgh
• Andrey Rubtsov
• Poul Ruders
• Harald Sæverud
• Peter Schickele
• Rodion Shchedrin
• 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

See also

• Concerto
• Bass oboe concerto
• English horn concerto
• Bassoon concerto

Notes and References

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