Flute concerto


A flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Some major composers have contributed to the flute concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Mozart and Vivaldi.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the modern-day flute concerto has occasionally been structured in four or more movements. In some flute concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the flute is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra.
The 20th century saw the flute concerto championed by the famous French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal.

Selected repertoire

The following concertos are presently found near the centre of the mainstream Western repertoire for the flute.

Baroque

Jean-Marie Leclair
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Johann Joachim Quantz – author of over 300 concertos for the flute.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Antonio Vivaldi
Franz Benda
Domenico Cimarosa
Franz Danzi
François Devienne
Frederick the Great
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Joseph Haydn
Leopold Hofmann
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Franz Krommer
Franz Paul Lachner
Bernhard Molique
Leopold Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Josef Reicha
Andreas Romberg
Antonio Rosetti
Antonio Salieri
Karl Stamitz
Peter von Winter
François Borne
Ferdinand Büchner
Cécile Chaminade
Franz Doppler
Saverio Mercadante
Carl Reinecke
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
Bernhard Romberg
Camille Saint-Saëns
Kalevi Aho
Robert Aitken
Eduardo Angulo
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Aaron Avshalomov
Leonardo Balada
Leonid Bashmakov
Flint Juventino Beppe
Leonard Bernstein
Rutland Boughton
Pierre Boulez
Robert J. Bradshaw
Henry Brant
John Carmichael
Elliott Carter
John Corigliano
Marc-André Dalbavie
Michael Daugherty
Edison Denisov
Pascal Dusapin
Eric Ewazen
Jindřich Feld
Morton Feldman
Arthur Foote
Lukas Foss
Jean Françaix
Harald Genzmer
Geoffrey Gordon
Sofia Gubaidulina
Otar Gordeli
Charles Griffes
Jim McGrath
Jorge Grundman
Howard Hanson
Chris Harman
Jacques Hétu
Vagn Holmboe
Alan Hovhaness
Jacques Ibert
Gordon Jacob
André Jolivet
Giya Kancheli
Aaron Jay Kernis
Peter Paul Koprowski
Aram Khachaturian
Sophie Lacaze
Lowell Liebermann
György Ligeti
Dietrich Manicke
Jeff Manookian
Olivier Messiaen
Michael Mower
Thorkell Sigurbjornsson
Carl Nielsen
Krzysztof Penderecki
William P. Perry
Walter Piston
Yves Prin
Behzad Ranjbaran
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Jean Rivier
Joaquín Rodrigo
Ned Rorem
Christopher Rouse
Kaija Saariaho
Aulis Sallinen
R. Murray Schafer
Heather Schmidt
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Laura Schwendinger
Eric Sessler
Judith Shatin
Emil Tabakov
Toru Takemitsu
Josef Tal
Werner Thärichen
Joan Tower
Yuko Uebayashi
Melinda Wagner
Mieczysław Weinberg
Herbert Willi
John Williams
Charles Wuorinen
Isang Yun
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich