A bassoon concerto is a

concerto A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...

for

bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...

accompanied by a

musical ensemble A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, ...

, typically

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

. Like bassoon sonatas, bassoon concerti were relatively uncommon until the twentieth century, although there are quite a few bassoon concerti from the Classical period. Some contemporary bassoon concerti are scored for solo bassoon and

wind Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hou ...

string orchestra A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music. The instruments of such an orchestra are most often the following: the violin, which is divided into first ...

Baroque

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

, 39 Bassoon Concerti, RV 466-504 (RV 468 and 482 incomplete) *

Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north o ...

, Concerto in C Major * Caspar Förster, Concerto *

Johann Gottlieb Graun Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 28 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is the better known of the two. Johann Gottlieb ...

, Concerto in C Major *

Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner (13 January 1683 – 10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel. Life Born in Hartmannsdorf ...

, Four Bassoon Concerti in C Major, GWV 301, C Minor, GWV 307, G Major, GWV 328, and B-flat Major, GWV 340 *

Johann Wilhelm Hertel Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player. He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754) was ''Konzertmeister'' (from 1 ...

, Bassoon Concerti in A Minor, B-flat Major and E-flat Major * Franz Horneck, Concerto in E-flat Major *

František Jiránek František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech ( Bohemian) Baroque composer, musician and very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi. Life Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou (Northern Bohemia, present-day Czech Rep ...

, Bassoon Concerti in G Minor and F Major *

Antonín Jiránek Antonín Jiránek (''Anton Giranek'', c. 1712 – 16 January 1761) was a Bohemian violinist and composer. Life Born in Mladá Boleslav, Jiránek was trained in Prague. He was the first violinist in the royal chapel in Warsaw and later in the Poli ...

, Four Bassoon Concerti * , Concerto for Two Bassoons in G Major (1751) *

Johann Melchior Molter Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German composer and violinist of the late Baroque period. He was born at Tiefenort, near Eisenach, and was educated at the Gymnasium in Eisenach. By autumn 1717 he had left ...

, Four Bassoon Concerti (including Concerto in B-flat Major, MWV 6.35) * Antonín Reichenauer, Three Bassoon Concerti in C Major, F Major, and G Minor *

Michel Corrette Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books. Life Corrette was born in Rouen, Normandy. His father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Little is known of ...

, Concerto in D Major ''Le Phénix'' for four bassoons and continuo

Classical

Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical period (music), Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After living in Italy for ...

, Two Bassoon Concerti in E flat Major (W C82) and B flat Major (W C83) *

Capel Bond Capel Bond (14 December 1730 – 14 February 1790) was an English organist and composer. Life and career He was born in Gloucester, the son of William Bond and the younger brother of painter and japanner Daniel Bond (1725–1803). He received ...

, Bassoon Concerto No. 6 in B flat Major (1766) *

Bernhard Henrik Crusell Bernhard Henrik Crusell (15 October 1775 – 28 July 1838) was a Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed, — the outstanding Finnis ...

, Bassoon Concertino in B flat Major *

Franz Danzi Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi. Danzi lived at a significant time in t ...

, Four Bassoon Concerti in F Major (2), C Major and G Minor *

François Devienne François Devienne (; 31 January 1759 – 5 September 1803) was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. Career Devienne was born in Joinville, as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker. After receiving h ...

, Five Bassoon Concerti (1785) * Luigi Gatti, Bassoon Concerto in F Major, L7:e4 *

Johann Nepomuk Hummel Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the Transition from Classical to Romantic music, transition from the Classical period (music), Classical to the Romantic ...

, Bassoon Concerto in F Major, S. 63/WoO 23 *

Leopold Kozeluch Leopold may refer to: People * Leopold (given name) * Leopold (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Leopold (''The Simpsons''), Superintendent Chalmers' assistant on ''The Simpsons'' * Leopold Bloom, the protagonist o ...

, Two Bassoon Concerti in B flat Major, P V:B1 and C Major, P V:C1 * Gustav Heinrich Kummer, Concerto in F Major *

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

Bassoon Concerto A bassoon concerto is a concerto for bassoon accompanied by a musical ensemble, typically orchestra. Like bassoon sonatas, bassoon concerti were relatively uncommon until the twentieth century, although there are quite a few bassoon concerti from ...

(1774) *

Johann Baptist Georg Neruda Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (Czech: ', – ) was a Czech classical composer, violinist and cellist. Life Neruda's dates of birth and death (taken from the '' Grove Dictionary'') are only approximations. He was born in Kingdom of Bohemia, ...

, Concerto in C Major * Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Concerto in B-flat Major B.107 * Johann Heinrich Christian Rinck, Concerto *

Antonio Rosetti Francesco Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750 – 30 June 1792) was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart. There is considerable confusion regarding his name. The occasional mention of a supposed, ...

, Bassoon Concerti (C69, C73-C75) * Theodor von Schacht, Concerto *

Carl Stamitz Carl Philipp Stamitz ( cs, Karel Stamic; baptized 8 May 17459 November 1801) was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry. He was the most prominent representative of the second generation of the Mannheim School. He was the eldest son of Joh ...

, Bassoon Concerto in F Major *

Johann Baptist Wanhal Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech classical music composer. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. He was an instrumental perf ...

, Bassoon Concerto in C Major, Concerto for Two Bassoons and Orchestra * Anselm Viola i Valentí, Concerto in F Major (1791) * Johann Christoph Vogel, Concerto in C Major

Romantic

Ferdinand David Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...

, Concertino, Op. 12 (1838) * Édouard Du Puy, Concerto in C Minor (also, Bassoon Quintet in A Minor, often performed as a concerto) * Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Concerto in B flat Major *

Peter Josef von Lindpaintner Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (8 December 1791 – 21 August 1856) was a German composer and conductor. Born in Koblenz as the son of a tenor, he studied with Peter Winter and Joseph Graetz. From 1819 onwards he was based in Stuttgart. Some o ...

, Bassoon Concerto in F major, Op. 44 * Ludwig Milde, Concerto in A Minor *

Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...

, Bassoon Concerto (attributed to Rossini, authenticity questionable) *

Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his opera ...

, Bassoon Concerto in F Major, Op. 75 (1811) *

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (born Ermanno Wolf) (January 12, 1876 – January 21, 1948) was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as '' Il segreto di Susanna'' (1909). A number of his works were based on plays by ...

, Suite-concertino in F Major, Op. 16 (1932)

20th century

* Dieter Acker, Concerto (1979, rev. 1980) *

Murray Adaskin Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. After playing violin with a band, he studied composition and became the director of the Music department of the University of ...

, Concerto (1960) * , Concerto, Op. 69 (1995) * , Concerto, Op. 75 (1956) *

David Amram David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings.

, Concerto (1970) * Jurriaan Andriessen, Concertino for Bassoon and Double Woodwind Quintet (1962) * Allyson Applebaum, Concerto (1995) *

Tony Aubin Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer. Career Aubin was born in Paris. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (composer), Samuel Rousseau (music theory), ...

, Concerto della Brughiera (1965) *

Conrad Baden Conrad Baden (31 August 1908 – 11 June 1989) was a Norwegian organist, composer, music educator, and music critic. He had an extensive production of orchestral works, chamber music, vocal works and church music. He is considered one of the m ...

, Concerto, Op. 126 (1980) *

Henk Badings Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was an Indo-Dutch composer. Early life Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Hendrik Herman Ba ...

, Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon and Wind Orchestra (1964) * Andrei Balanchivadze, Concertino (1954) * Larry Bell, Concerto, Op. 45 ''The Sentimental Muse'' (1997) *

Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.Zachary Woo ...

, Concerto (1994) * Alain Bernaud, Concertino da Camera (1962; completed 2012) * Umberto Bertoni, Concerto (1954) * , Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble * Judith Bingham, Concerto (1998) *

Marcel Bitsch Marcel Bitsch (December 29, 1921, Paris – September 21, 2011, Toulouse) was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint there. Career In 1939, Marcel Bitsch entered t ...

, Concertino for Bassoon and Orchestra (1948) * Alexander Blechinger, Concerto, Op. 111 *

Daniel Börtz Daniel Börtz (born 8 August 1943) is a Swedish composer, born in Hässleholm. He studied composition under Hilding Rosenberg, Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Ingvar Lidholm. Among his works are the operas ''Bacchanterna'' (1991), ''Marie Antoinette'' ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Band (1978–79) *

Eugène Bozza Eugène Joseph Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991)Grove Music Online: "Bozza, Eugène"; accessed 20 September 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/03791. was a French composer and violinist. He was one of t ...

, Concertino for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 49 (1946) * Colin Brumby, Concerto *

Victor Bruns Victor Bruns (russian: Виктор Брунс; 15 August 1904 – 6 December 1996) was a German composer and bassoonist. He played with the Leningrad Opera, the Volksoper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. As a composer, he is known for ...

, Four Bassoon Concerti, Op. 5 (1933), Op. 15 (1946), Op. 41 (1966) and Op. 83 (1986), and Contrabassoon Concerto, Op. 98 (1992) *

Glenn Buhr Glenn Buhr (born December 18, 1954) is a Canadian composer, pianist and conductor,Evan Ware and Robin Elliott"Glenn Buhr" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', March 10, 2009. who has been active in both classical music and jazz music. Early life and edu ...

, Concerto (1996) * , Concertino, Op. 38 for bassoon, violin, viola and cello (1992) * , ''Goëlette de jade'' Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (1999-2000) * Wilson Coker, Concertino for Bassoon and String Trio (1959) *

Dinos Constantinides Dinos Constantinides ( el, Ντίνος Κωνσταντινίδης; 10 May 1929 – 20 July 2021) was a Greek-American composer of contemporary classical music. Constantinides was born in Ioannina, Greece. He studied violin and music theory ...

, Concerto, LRC 154a *

Andrzej Dobrowolski Andrzej Dobrowolski (September 9, 1921 – August 8, 1990) was a Polish composer and teacher. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatoire during the war and afterwards in the State High School of Music in Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the seco ...

, Concerto (1953) *

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

, Concerto (1952) *

Pierre Max Dubois Pierre Max Dubois, sometimes given as Pierre-Max Dubois (1 March 1930 – 29 August 1995) was a French composer of classical music, conductor, and music educator. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected ...

, Concerto Ironico (1968) *

Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (russian: Софи Кармен Экхардт-Граматте; in Moscow, Russia – 2 December 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany) was a Russian-born Canadian composer and virtuoso pianist and violinist. Biography ...

, Triple-Concerto for Trumpet, Clarinet, Bassoon, Strings and Timpani, E. 123 (1949); Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, E. 124/125 (1950) *

Helmut Eder Helmut Eder (December 26, 1916, Linz – February 8, 2005, Salzburg) was an Austrian composer. Eder studied until 1948 at the Linz Conservatory, later studying with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart and Carl Orff in Munich. Returning to Linz, he ...

, Concerto, Op. 49 *

Anders Eliasson Anders Erik Birger Eliasson (3 April 1947 – 20 May 2013) was a Sweden, Swedish composer. Life Eliasson was born in Borlänge. His "earliest musical experiences originated from within myself: they were my own singing, and familiar tunes I h ...

, Concerto (1982) * John Fairlie, Concerto *

Jindřich Feld Jindřich Feld (February 19, 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – July 8, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer of classical music. Feld was born into a musical family, his father a well-known professor of violin at the Prague C ...

, Concerto (1953) *

John Fernström John Fernström (6 December 1897 – 19 October 1961) was a Swedish composer. Fernström was born in Yichang, China, where he also spent most part of the first ten years of his life at the mission his father directed, except for a couple of years ...

, Concerto, Op. 80 (1945) *

Eric Fogg Charles William Eric Fogg (21 February 190319 December 1939) was an English composer, conductor and BBC broadcaster. His early works were influenced by Igor Stravinsky, though his later pieces owe more to Granville Bantock and Richard Strauss a ...

, Concerto (1931) *

Bjørn Fongaard Bjørn Fongaard (2 March 1919 in Oslo – 26 October 1980 in Oslo) was a Norwegian composer, guitarist, and teacher. In addition to being concerned with microtonal and electronic music, he was perhaps the first to use the prepared guitar. "Fo ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 120, No. 12; Concerto for Bassoon and Tape, Op. 131, No. 10 *

Jean Françaix Jean René Désiré Françaix (; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassicism (music), neoclassical composer, piano, pianist, and orchestration, orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and 11 String Instruments (1979) * Stephen Frost, Concerto (1999, rev. 2004) *

Anis Fuleihan Anis Fuleihan (April 2, 1900 - October 11, 1970) was a Cypriot-born American composer, conductor and pianist. A native of Kyrenia, Fuleihan belonged to a Christian Lebanese family; he attended the English School in that town before coming to the ...

, Concertino (1965) * , Concerto No. 1 (1979), Concerto No. 2 (1997) *

René Gerber René Gerber (29 June 1908; Travers, Switzerland – 21 October 2006; Bevaix) was a Swiss composer. A student of Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger, among others, he taught at the Collège Latin (Neuchâtel) and became the director of the Conservatoire ...

, Concerto (1935–39) * , Concerto (1979) *

Suzanne Giraud Suzanne Giraud (born 31 July 1958) is a French people, French music educator and composer of contemporary music. Her works are marked by a predilection for percussion, voices and strings; they resonate with her artistic, poetic and architectural i ...

, Concerto ''Crier vers l'horizon'' (1991) * , Concerto (1952); Concertino (1959) *

Launy Grøndahl Launy Grøndahl (30 June 1886 – 21 January 1960) was a Danish composer and conductor. Grøndahl studied the violin from the age of eight. His first work as a professional musician was as a violinist with the Orchestra of the Casino Theatre in ...

, Concerto (1942) *

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings (1975) *

Bernhard Heiden Bernhard Heiden (b. Frankfurt-am-Main, August 24, 1910; d. Bloomington, IN, April 30, 2000) was a German and American composer and music teacher, who studied under and was heavily influenced by Paul Hindemith. Bernhard Heiden, the son of Ernst ...

, Concerto (1990) *

Kurt Hessenberg Kurt Hessenberg (17 August 1908 – 17 June 1994) was a German composer and professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt. Life Kurt Hessenberg was born on 17 August 1908 in Frankfurt, as the fourth and last child of ...

, Concertino, Op. 106 (1979) * Jacques Hétu, Concerto (1979) *

Frigyes Hidas Frigyes Hidas (; 25 May 1928 – 7 March 2007) was a Hungarian composer. Hidas was born and died in Budapest, where he studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with János Visky. After his studies, he was the musical director ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble (1999) *

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Ne ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Trumpet (1949) *

Peter Hope Peter Hope (born 2 November 1930) is a British composer and arranger. He is particularly noted for his light music compositions, such as the ''Ring of Kerry Suite'', which won an Ivor Novello award, and for his arrangements, such as "Mexican Ha ...

, Concertino *

Bertold Hummel Bertold Hummel (27 November 1925 – 9 August 2002) was a German composer of modern classical music. Life Bertold Hummel was born in Hüfingen, Baden. He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Har ...

, Concerto, Op. 27b (1964/92) *

Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about m ...

, Concerto (1947) *

André Jolivet André Jolivet (; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influe ...

, Concerto for Bassoon, String Orchestra, Harp and Piano (1951) * John Joubert, Concerto, Op. 77 (1973) * , Concerto, op. 27 (1981) * Ernest Kanitz, Concerto (1962) *

Yuri Kasparov Yuri Sergeyevich Kasparov (born 8 June 1955, in Moscow, russian: link=no, Юрий Серге́евич Каспа́ров—his name is variously transliterated) is a Russian composer, music teacher and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory wh ...

, Concerto (1996) *

Manfred Kelkel Manfred Kelkel (15 January 1929 – 18 April 1999) was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer of contemporary music. A pupil of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, he got interested in the music of Russian composer Alexander Scri ...

, Concerto, Op. 13 (1965) * Ramaz Kemularia, Concerto (1969) * Jānis Ķepītis, Concerto (1975) * Carson Kievman, Concerto for Bassoon (and Fire Alarm System) for bassoon and percussion ensemble (1973) *

Lev Knipper Lev Konstantinovich Knipper (Russian: Лев Константинович Книппер; – 30 July 1974) was a Soviet and Russian composer of partial German descent and an active OGPU/NKVD agent. Life and career Lev Knipper was born in Ti ...

, Double Concerto for Trumpet and Bassoon (1968), Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (1970) *

Rudolf Komorous Rudolf Komorous (born 8 December 1931, Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born Canadian composer. His works include ''Twenty-Three Poems about Horses'' (1978), based on the poetry of Li Ho Li He ( – ) was a Chinese poet of the mid-Tang dyn ...

, Chamber Concerto (1995) *

Nikolai Korndorf Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf (russian: Николáй Серге́евич Корндóрф, January 23, 1947 – May 30, 2001) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouve ...

, Concerto Pastorale (1971) * Uroš Krek, Concerto * Hubert Kross, Concerto for 4 Bassoons and Orchestra(1987) * Shin’ichirō Ikebe, Concerto “The License of Blaze” (1999 / rev. 2004) * , Concerto (1997) *

Ezra Laderman Ezra Laderman (29 June 1924 – 28 February 2015) was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Brooklyn. Biography Laderman was of Jewish heritage. His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Thou ...

, Concerto (1954) *

Marcel Landowski Marcel François Paul Landowski (18 February 1915 – 23 December 1999) was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator. Biography Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of French sculptor Paul Landowski and gre ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Strings (1957) *

Lars-Erik Larsson Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson (15 May 190827 December 1986) was a Swedish composer, conductor, radio producer, and educator. He wrote three of the most popular works (each a suite) in Swedish art music: ''A Winter's Tale'' (; 1937–1938), the '' Pas ...

, Concertino, Op. 45, No. 4 (1955) * Olof Lindgren, Concertino, Op. 56 (1986) * Elizbar Lomdaridze, Concerto No. 1 (1971), Concerto No. 2 (1974) * Ray Luke, Concerto for bassoon and orchestra or wind ensemble (1965) * Anatoly Luppov, Concerto (1967) * Mathieu Lussier, Double Concerto for Trumpet (or Flute) and Bassoon * Ernst Mahle, Concertino (1980) *

Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...

, Strathclyde Concerto No. 8 (1993) * Jēkabs Mediņš, Concerto (1961) * André Mehmari, Concerto for bassoon, harp and strings (2009) *

Chiel Meijering Chiel Meijering (born 15 June 1954, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch composer. He studied composition with Ton de Leeuw, percussion with Jan Labordus and Jan Pustjens, and piano at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Although his over 1,000 works are compo ...

, "Neo-Geo" Concerto *

Francisco Mignone Francisco Paulo Mignone (September 3, 1897, São Paulo – February 19, 1986, Rio de Janeiro) was one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos. I ...

, Concertino (1957) * , Concerto (1981) * Vytautas Montvila, Concerto (1963) *

Oskar Morawetz Oskar Morawetz, (January 17, 1917 – June 13, 2007) was a Canadian composer. Biography Morawetz was born in Světlá nad Sázavou, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic). He studied piano and theory in Prague and, following the Nazi takeov ...

, Concerto (1994) * Saburō Moroi, Concerto, Op. 14 (1937) - lost * , Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Band *

Akira Nishimura is a Japanese composer from Osaka. Biography Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asian traditional music, religion, aesthetics, cosmology an ...

, Concerto for Bassoon, String and Percussion "Tapas" (1990) * Jonas Novakauskas, Concerto (1970) *

Carmelo Pace Maestro Chev. Carmelo Pace (August 17, 1906 – May 20, 1993) was a Maltese composer, and a professor of music theory and harmony. Born in Valletta, Malta on August 17, 1906, Pace was the eldest of three children. His parents were Anthony Pac ...

, Concertino (1987) *

Andrzej Panufnik Sir Andrzej Panufnik (24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philha ...

Concerto A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...

(1985) (in memory of

Jerzy Popiełuszko Jerzy Popiełuszko ( born Alfons Popiełuszko; 14 September 1947–19 October 1984) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He was murdered in 1984 by three agen ...

) *

Boris Papandopulo Boris Papandopulo (February 25, 1906 – October 16, 1991) was a Croatian composer and conductor of Greek and Russian Jewish descent. Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Djela hrvatskih skladatelja Židovskog podrijetla u Beču; s ...

, Concerto * Renato Parodi, Concerto (1952) *

Jiří Pauer Jiří Pauer (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer. Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and fina ...

, Concerto (1949) * Johnterryl Plumeri, Concerto * Arthur Polson, Concerto * , Concerto (1977) * Yuri Povolotsky, Concerto (1997) * Stanojlo Rajičić, Concerto (1969) *

Primož Ramovš Primož Ramovš (March 20, 1921 – January 10, 1999) was a Slovenian composer and librarian. Life Ramovš was born in Ljubljana, then the administrative centre of the Slovenian part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He studied at ...

, Concerto piccolo * Augusto Rattembach, Concierto con algo de Tango *

Alan Ridout Alan Ridout (9 December 1934 – 19 March 1996) was a British composer and teacher. Life Born in West Wickham, Kent, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal C ...

, Concertino *

Jean Rivier Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987) was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style. The son of Henri Rivier, a co-inventor of Armenian paper, he composed over two hundred works, including musi ...

, Concerto (1964) *

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

, Concerto (1974–77) *

Marcel Rubin Marcel Rubin (7 July 1905 – 12 May 1995) was an Austrian composer. Born in Vienna, where he studied with Richard Robert and Franz Schmidt, he later emigrated to Paris, where he pursued further studies with Darius Milhaud. After living in Mexico ...

, Concerto (1978) *

Harald Sæverud Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's ''Peer Gynt'', '' Rondo Amoroso'', and the ''Ballad of Revolt'' ( no, Kjempeviseslåtten). Sæverud ...

, Concerto, Op. 44 (1964) * , Svensk (ångermanländsk) Concertino, Op. 114e (1982) *

Friedrich Schenker Friedrich Schenker (23 December 19428 February 2013) was a German avant-garde composer and trombone player. Life Born in the German town of Zeulenroda, Schenker learned trombone and piano as a child and made his first compositional attempts at ...

, Concerto (1970) *

Gunther Schuller Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Biography and works Early years Schuller was born in Queens, New York City, ...

, Concerto "Eine Kleine Fagottmusik" (1985) * Antonio Scontrino, Concerto (1920) * Maurice Shoemaker, Concerto (1947) *

Lucijan Marija Škerjanc Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (December 17, 1900 – February 27, 1973) was a Slovene composer, music pedagogue, conductor, musician, and writer who was accomplished on and wrote for a number of musical instruments such as the piano, violin and ...

, Concerto (1952) *

Thomas Sleeper Thomas M. Sleeper (February 16, 1956 – October 15, 2022) was an American composer and conductor. His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'. He was the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the Un ...

, Concerto (1993) * Gunnar Sønstevold, Concertino (1973) * , Concerto (1944) * Allan Stephenson, Concerto (1990), Concertino for Two Bassoons and Orchestra (1999) * , Concerto (1985) *

Stjepan Šulek Stjepan Šulek (5 August 1914 in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary – 16 January 1986 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Croatian composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher. Biography Born in Zagreb in 1914, Šulek began his music stu ...

, Concerto (1958) *

Henri Tomasi Henri Tomasi (; 17 August 1901 – 13 January 1971) was a French classical composer and conductor. He was noted for compositions such as ''In Praise of Folly'', ''Nuclear Era'' and ''The Silence of the Sea''. Early years Henri Tomasi was bor ...

, Concerto (1961) *

Yuzo Toyama is a Japanese composer and conductor. A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa; he studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner and, like them, later became a conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor h ...

, Concerto for Bassoon, Strings and Percussion (1982) * Marc Vaubourgoin, Concerto (1968) * Joseph Vella, Concerto Barocco, Op. 92 (1998) *

Enn Vetemaa Enn Vetemaa (June 20, 1936March 28, 2017) was an Estonian writer sometimes referred to as a "forgotten classic",Arthur Weisberg Arthur Weisberg (April 4, 1931 – January 17, 2009) was an American clarinetist, bassoonist, conductor, composer and author. Biography Weisberg was born in New York City. He attended The High School of Music & Art, majoring in bassoon and s ...

, Concerto (1998) *

Alec Wilder Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") ...

, Air for Bassoon and Strings (1945) *

John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...

The Five Sacred Trees John Williams composed ''The Five Sacred Trees'' for Judith LeClair, the principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic in 1995, to honor the orchestra's 150th anniversary. The first performance was given by LeClair and the New York Philharm ...

(1995) *

Guy Woolfenden Guy Anthony Woolfenden (12 July 1937 – 15 April 2016) was an English composer and conductor. Biography Woolfenden was born in Ipswich and educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, London, and Whitgift School, Croydon. He studied music a ...

, Concerto (1999) * Gerhard Wuensch, Concerto (1976) *

Takashi Yoshimatsu is a Japanese classical music composer. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of ''Astro Boy''. Biography Yoshimatsu was born and raised in Yoyogi, Tokyo. He did not receive formal musical training while growing up. Yoshimatsu was a fa ...

, Concerto “Unicorn Circuit” (1988) * Boris Zeidman, Concerto (1938) * León Zuckert, Concerto (1976) *

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Ellen Taaffe Zwilich ( ; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, ne ...

, Concerto (1992)

21st century

Kalevi Aho Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer. Early years Aho began his interest in music at the age of ten, when he discovered a mandolin in his home and began to teach himself how to play it. He soon was taken under the tutelag ...

, Concerto (2004) *

Mark Alburger Mark Alburger (born April 2, 1957 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania) is a San Francisco Bay area composer and conductor. He is the founder and music director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, as well as the music director of Goat ...

, Concerto, Op. 120 (2004); Triple Concerto, Op. 201 (bn, cbn, hp, 2012) * Tzvi Avni, Concerto (2002) * John Baboukis, Three Walks in Zamalek (Concerto for bassoon, harpsichord, and strings) *

Ioseb Bardanashvili Ioseb Bardanashvili ( ka, იოსებ (სოსო) ბარდანაშვილი; he, יוסף ברדנשווילי; born 23 November 1948 in Batumi, Georgia) is an Israeli and Georgian composer. His works span classical to contemp ...

, Artiton (2010) * David Beck, Concertino (c2003) * Judith Bingham, Concerto ''Leonardo'' for Bassoon and Thirteen Strings (2012) *

Howard Blake Howard David Blake (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film ' ...

, Concerto, op. 607 (2009) *

Howard J. Buss Howard J. Buss (born January 6, 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Buss’ works include instrumental solos, chamber music, symphonic, choral, and band works. His music has received awards, ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (2022) *

David Chesky David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store that sells high-resolution digital music. Ches ...

, Concerto (2006) * Benoît Dantin, Concerto ''Les Trois Étoiles'' (2012) *

Jack Curtis Dubowsky Jack Curtis Dubowsky is an American composer and author who has composed music for film, chorus, and concert performance. His music has been performed by the San Francisco Choral Artists, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, the Snopea Chambe ...

, Concerto (2005) *

Eric Ewazen Eric Ewazen (; born March 1, 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American composer and teacher. Biography Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Ea ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble (2002) * , Concertino for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble (2002) *

Sean Friar Sean Friar (born 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and pianist. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Biography Sean Friar was born and raised in Los Angeles. He studied Music Composition and Psychology at UCLA where he gr ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble (2023) *

Dai Fujikura Dai Fujikura ( ja, 藤倉大 ''Fujikura Dai''; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover Colle ...

, Concerto (2012) *

Michael Gandolfi Michael James Gandolfi (born July 5, 1956) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He chairs the composition department at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC). Gandolfi was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He taught h ...

, Concerto (2009) * Aharon Harlap, Concerto (2004) * Gregor Huebner, African Visions, Op. 23 for Bassoon and String Orchestra (2004) * Caleb Hugo, Concerto (2009) * David Ludwig, Pictures from the Floating World for Bassoon and Orchestra (2013) *

Jouni Kaipainen Jouni Ilari Kaipainen (24 November 1956 – 23 November 2015) was a Finnish composer. Kaipainen was born in Helsinki to the physician and politician Osmo Kaipainen, and his wife, the author Anu Kaipainen, Anu Mustonen. He studied at the Sibelius ...

, Concerto, Op. 74 (2005) *

Tõnu Kõrvits Tõnu Kõrvits (born 9 April 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer. In 1994 he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with specialty in composition. Since 2001 he has taught composition and instrumentation at the Estonian Ac ...

, Teispool Päikesevälju (Beyond the Solar Fields) (2004); Concerto ''Vihma laulud vikerkaarele'' (Rain's Songs to the Rainbow) (2016) * Claas Matti Julius Krause, Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra (2016) * Ülo Krigul, Concerto ''Goin (2014) * Jeff Manookian
Concerto
(2008) * Per Mårtensson, Concerto (2002) *

Marjan Mozetich Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition pieces for the 1992 Banff String Quartet ...

, Concerto for Bassoon and Strings with Marimba (2003) *

Nico Muhly Nico Asher Muhly (; born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestras ...

, Reliable Sources, Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble / Orchestral Winds (2018) * Marc Neikrug,

(2013) * Jaroslav Pelikán, Concertino: Variations for bassoon, string orchestra, harp and timpani (2000) * Jean-Louis Petit, ''Les Paradis Se Rencontrent, Ils Ne Se Fabriquent Pas'' Concertino for Bassoon and Mandolin Orchestra with Contrabass (2002), Concertino for Bassoon and Orchestra * Nicole Philiba, ''Nuées Ardentes'' for Bassoon, Strings and Percussion (2001) * Craig Phillips, Concerto (2002) * Gene Pritsker, Concerto No. 1 ''Essentially Tragic'' for Amplified Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra (2001), Concerto No. 2 ''Breath of Rhetoric'' (2013) *

Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...

, ''Psalmus'' for bassoon and orchestra (2007) * Christopher Rouse,

(2018) * Franklin Stover, Double Concerto for Bassoon, Contrabassoon and Orchestra (2010) *

Eino Tamberg Eino Tamberg (27 May 1930 – 24 December 2010) was an Estonian composer whose works are performed internationally. He composed operas such as ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', four symphonies, and several concertos. He taught composition for decades at th ...

, Concerto, Op. 108 (2000) *

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (born July 25, 1968) is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist.Christopher Theofanidis Christopher Theofanidis (born December 18, 1967, in Dallas, Texas) is an American composer whose works have been performed by leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Mosco ...

, Concerto (1997-2002) *

Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and professor. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University ...

, Concertino (2013) *

Joan Tower Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938)http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=1605 Biography on Schirmer is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by ''The New York ...

, ''Red Maple'' for Bassoon and Strings (2013) *

Erkki-Sven Tüür Erkki-Sven Tüür (born 16 October 1959) is an Estonian composer. Life and career Tüür () was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition wit ...

, Concerto (2003) *

Gwyneth Walker Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age a ...

, Concerto (2000) * Kenneth Watson, Concerto (2015) Other notable pieces for bassoon and orchestra include Berwald'
''Konzertstück''

Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

's ''Romance'', Villa-Lobos's ''Ciranda Das Sete Notas'', and Weber's ''Andante e Rondo Ongarese''.

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