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 ...
, thus literally a small or short concerto.
Examples
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Hendrik Andriessen
Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 – 12 April 1981) was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andrie ...
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**Concertino for oboe and string orchestra (1970)
**Concertino for cello and chamber orchestra (1970)
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**Concertino for bassoon and winds (1962)
**Concertino for piano and orchestra (1962)
**Concertino for sousaphone and orchestra (1967)
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Alexander Arutiunian
Alexander Grigori Arutiunian ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan, Harutyunian or Harutiunian (23 September 1920 – 28 March 2012), was a Soviet and Armenian compos ...
: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1951)
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Kees van Baaren
Kees van Baaren (;In isolation, ''van'' is pronounced . 22 October 1906 – 2 September 1970) was a Dutch composer and teacher.
Early years
Van Baaren was born in Enschede. His early studies (1924–29) were in Berlin with Rudolph Breithaup ...
: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1934)
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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 ...
: Concertino for piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) and chamber orchestra (1942)
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Marion Bauer
Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century.
As a composer, ...
: Concertino for oboe, clarinet, and string quartet, Op. 32b
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...
: Concertino for clarinet, violin, celesta, harp, and strings (1949, rev. 1951 and 1970)
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Henriëtte Bosmans
Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans (6 December 1895 – 2 July 1952) was a Dutch composer and pianist.
Early life and education
Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of (1856-1896), principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the ...
: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1929)
* Ferrucio Busoni: , BV 276 (Op. 48)BUSONI, F.: Clarinet Concertino / Divertimento / Rondo arlecchinesco / Tanzwalzer (Rome Symphony, La Vecchia) at
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Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a ...
Ferdinand David
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style dur ...
: Concertino in G Major for cor anglais and orchestra (1817)
* Theodore Eisfeld: Concertino for clarinet and orchestra
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David Farquhar
David Andross Farquhar (5 April 1928 – 8 May 2007) was a New Zealand composer and professor of music at Victoria University of Wellington.
Biography
Farquhar was born in Cambridge, New Zealand, in 1928 but spent most of his early years in F ...
: Concertino for piano and strings (1960)
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Lorenzo Ferrero
Lorenzo Ferrero (; born 1951) is an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral ...
Wolfgang Fortner
Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.
Life
Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music.
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: Concertino for viola and chamber orchestra (1934)
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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.
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**Concertino for piano and orchestra (1932)
**Concertino for violin and orchestra (1954)
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Roberto Gerhard
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.Malcolm MacDonald. 'Gerhard, Roberto' in ''Grove Music Onl ...
: Concertino for strings (1927–28)
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 191225 June 1990) was an Australian composer and music critic.
Biography
Peggy Glanville Hicks, born in Melbourne, first studied composition with Fritz Hart at the Albert Street Conservatorium in M ...
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**Concertino da camera for flute, clarinet, bassoon, and piano (1945)
**''Concertino antico'' for harp and string quartet (1955)
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Michael Haydn
Johann Michael Haydn (; 14 September 173710 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Life
Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the Austrian village of Rohrau, near the Hungarian border. ...
: Concertino for trumpet and orchestra
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Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...
: Concertino for piano, winds, and percussion (1947)
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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 ...
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Konzertstück
A concert piece (German: Konzertstück; French: pièce de concert, also morceau de concert) is a musical composition, in most cases in one movement, intended for performance in a concert. Usually it is written for one or more virtuoso instrumenta ...
) for
trautonium
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and strings (1931)
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Gilad Hochman
Gilad Hochman ( he, גילעד הוכמן; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is an Israeli classical music composer.
Education
Hochman was born to an Odessa native father and a Paris native mother and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He began ...
: Concertino for
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 ...
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flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
obbligato (2003)
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Jacques Ibert
Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first ...
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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 p ...
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John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomin ...
: ''Concertino pastorale'' for string orchestra (1939)
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Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European fol ...
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 ...
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Julius Klengel
Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at f ...
: Concertino for cello in C major
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István Láng
István Láng (; born 1 March 1933) is a Hungarian composer.
Life
Born in Budapest, Láng studied composition there from 1950 to 1958 at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, first with János Viski and later with Ferenc Szabó. After graduati ...
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**Concertino for xylophone and orchestra (1961, rev. 1967)
**Concertino for soprano, trumpet, harp, violin, viola, cello, and electronics
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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 ...
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**Concertino No. 1 for flute and strings, Op. 45 No. 1 (1955)
**Concertino No. 2 for oboe and strings, Op. 45 No. 2 (1955)
**Concertino No. 3 for clarinet and strings, Op. 45 No. 3 (1957)
**Concertino No. 4 for bassoon and strings, Op. 45 No. 4 (1955)
**Concertino No. 5 for horn and strings, Op. 45 No. 5 (1955)
**Concertino No. 6 for trumpet and strings, Op. 45 No. 6 (1953)
**Concertino No. 7 for trombone and strings, Op. 45 No. 7 (1955)
**Concertino No. 8 for violin and strings, Op. 45 No. 8 (1956)
**Concertino No. 9 for viola and strings, Op. 45 No. 9 (1956)
**Concertino No. 10 for cello and strings, Op. 45 No. 10 (1956)
**Concertino No. 11 for double bass and strings, Op. 45 No. 11 (1957)
**Concertino No. 12 for piano and strings, Op. 45 No. 12 (1957)
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Walter Leigh
Walter Leigh (22 June 190512 June 1942) was an English composer. Leigh is best known for his Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra, written in 1934. Other famous works include the overture ''Agincourt'' and ''The Frogs of Aristophane ...
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Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra is a short harpsichord concerto written in 1934 by England, English composer Walter Leigh. It was premiered by the English composer and pianist Elizabeth Poston.
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#Allegro
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Ursula Mamlok
Ursula Mamlok (February 1, 1923 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American composer and teacher.
Education and influences
Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family, and studied piano and composition with Professor G ...
: Concertino for wind quintet, string orchestra, and percussion
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Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He bec ...
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**Concertino for cello and chamber ensemble (piccolo, 2 oboes, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, timpani, drum, and cymbals) (1924)
**Concertino for piano left hand and chamber orchestra (1926)
**Concertino for piano trio and strings, H. 231 (1933)
**Concertino for piano trio and strings, H. 232 (1933)
**Concertino for piano and orchestra (1938)
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Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...
: ''Les quatre saisons'':
**''Concertino de printemps'' for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 135 (1934)Jeremy Drake, "Milhaud, Darius", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
**''Concertino d'automne'' for two pianos and eight instruments, Op. 309 (1951)
**''Concertino d'été'' for viola and chamber orchestra, Op. 311 (1951)
**''Concertino d'hiver'' for trombone and string orchestra, Op. 327 (1953)
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Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style has varied considerably throughout his career, his music has often included repeatedly evolving melodies—such as the infinity series—in the vein o ...
: Concertino No. 2 for piano solo (1950)
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Léon Orthel
Léon Orthel (4 October 1905, Roosendaal – 6 September 1985, The Hague) was a Dutch composer, pianist and teacher.
In 1921 he became a student of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He studied violin with André Spoor, piano with Everhard ...
: ''Concertino alla burla'' for piano and orchestra, Op. 12 (1930)
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Vincent Persichetti
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own wo ...
: Concertino for piano and orchestra, Op. 16 (1941)
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Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.
Life
Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Ha ...
: Concertino for piano and chamber orchestra (1937)
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ...
: Concertino for piano four-hands (1931)
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...
Marcel Quinet Marcel Alfred Quinet (6 July 1915 – 16 December 1986) was a Belgian composer and pianist.
He studied at the Mons Conservatory briefly and then the Brussels Conservatory, where he obtained prizes for harmony in 1936, counterpoint in 1937, f ...
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**Concertino for flute and orchestra (1959)
**Concertino for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and orchestra (1960)
**Concertino for violin and orchestra (1970)
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Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Althou ...
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**''Concertino de Camera'' for harpsichord and small ensemble (1946)
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Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...
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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, ...
: Concertino for jazz quartet (vibraphone, piano, percussion, and double bass) and orchestra (1959)
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Roger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and ...
: Concertino for chamber orchestra (1971–72)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...
: Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94 (1954)
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Nikos Skalkottas
Nikos Skalkottas ( el, Νίκος Σκαλκώτας; 21 March 1904 – 19 September 1949) was a Greek composer of 20th-century classical music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repert ...
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**Concertino for solo oboe with piano accompaniment (1939)John Thornley, "Skalkottas, Nikos ikolaos, ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
**Concertino for trumpet with piano accompaniment (190–42)
**Concertino for piano and orchestra in C major (1948)
**Concertino for two pianos and orchestra (1935)
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
: ''Duett-Concertino'' for clarinet, bassoon, strings and harp (1947)
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the ...
: Concertino for string quartet (1920), also arrs. for piano four-hands, and for flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, 2 bassons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, violin, and cello
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Carlos Surinach
Carlos Lund (or Carles Suriñach) i Wrokona (; March 6, 1915 – November 12, 1997) was a Spanish-born :
**Concertino for piano, stings, and cymbals (1956)
**Doppio Concertino for violin, piano, and nine instruments (1954)
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Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre (; born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 18927 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as ''Les Six''.
Biography
Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse was born at Sai ...
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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassic ...
: ''Autumn'', concertino for harp, strings, and percussion (1964)
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Erich Urbanner
Erich Urbanner (born 26 March 1936) is an Austrian composer and teacher.
Biography
Born in Innsbruck, Urbanner studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the composition classes of Karl Schiske and Han ...
: Concertino for flute and orchestra (1959)
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Václav Jindřich Veit
Václav Jindřich Veit known in German as Wenzel Heinrich Veit (19 January 1806 in the village of Řepnice, now part of Libochovany, near Litoměřice – 16 February 1864, Litoměřice) Czech composer, copyist, pianist and lawyer.
To pay tuitio ...
: Concertino for violin and orchestra, Op. 25 (1844)
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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 ...
clarinet
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Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
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 ...
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**''Idillio-concertino'' in A major for oboe, two horns, and strings, Op. 15 (1933)
**''Suite-concertino'' in F major for bassoon, two horns, and strings, Op. 16 (1933)
**Concertino in A major for cor anglais, two horns, and strings, Op. 34 (1947)
* Arthur Wood: Concertino in A major for flute and orchestra (1948)
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Isang Yun
Isang Yun, also spelled Yun I-sang (17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany.
Early life and education
Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea under Japanese rule, Chōsen ...
: Concertino for accordion and string quartet (1983)