Concerto da camera, or in English chamber concerto, originally was one of the two types of concerto grosso, the other being the ''concerto da chiesa'' ("church concert"). The concerto da camera had the character of a

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, being introduced by a prelude and incorporating popular dance forms.

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and Georg Philipp Telemann were great exponents of this form of music. Later it became a popular name for any

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 ...

in a

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setting.

Chamber concertos referring to the original concerto da camera concept

Among better known, non-baroque pieces with the name ''concerto da camera'' are: *

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, 3 Concerto da Cameras for piano and orchestra (1828) * Howard Hanson, Concerto da Camera for piano and string quartet in C, Op 7 (1917) * Jacques Ibert,

Concertino da camera The Concertino da camera for alto saxophone and eleven instruments was written by Jacques Ibert in 1935. Ibert dedicated the work to saxophone pioneer Sigurd Raschèr,Raschèr, S. Top Tones for the Saxophone, (1941) Carl Fischer, NY page 19 who pr ...

for saxophone and eleven instruments (1935) *

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, Concerto da camera for violin and string orchestra with piano and percussion (1941) *

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, Concerto da camera, for violin & orchestra (1947) * Arthur Honegger,

Concerto da camera, for flute, English horn and strings Concerto da camera ( H 196) is a concerto in three movements for the unusual combination of flute, English horn, and string orchestra written by Arthur Honegger late in his career in 1948. While Honegger was on tour in the United States, the Ame ...

(1948) * George Dyson, Concerto da Camera for string orchestra (1949) *

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, Concerto da Camera for strings, piano and timpani (1952) *

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, Concerto da Camera for violin, wind quintet, and piano (1962) *

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, Concerto da Camera col Violoncello Obbligato (1965) * Ahmed Adnan Saygun, Concerto da Camera, Op. 62 (1978) * Michael Hurd, Concerto da Camera for oboe & strings (1979) * Krzysztof Meyer, Concerto da camera for cello & orchestra ("Canti Amadei"), Op. 63, (1984) * Shulamit Ran, Concerto da camera II, for clarinet, 3 violins, cello & piano (1985)

Chamber Concertos in a wider sense

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