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is usually a piece of

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for one or more solo

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accompanied by a full

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, several

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s have written works with the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This title is usually chosen to emphasise soloistic and

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treatment of various individual instruments or

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in the orchestra, with emphasis on instruments changing during the piece. It differs from

sinfonia concertante Sinfonia concertante (; also called ''symphonie concertante'') is an orchestral work, normally in several movements, in which one or more solo instruments contrast with the full orchestra.Collins: ''Encyclopedia of Music'', William Collins Sons & ...

in that it has no soloist or group of soloists that remains the same throughout the composition. A well known concerto for orchestra is

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

's Concerto for Orchestra (1943), although the title had been used several times before. Goffredo Petrassi made the concerto for orchestra something of a speciality, writing eight of them since 1933. He finished the last one in 1972.

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symphony 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: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

This list is chronological. *Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 38, by

Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith ( ; ; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American 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 advo ...

(1925) *Concerto for Orchestra, by Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1926) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Vagn Holmboe Vagn Gylding Holmboe (; 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher. Early life and education Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated amateur musicians. Both parents played the ...

(1929) *Concerto for Orchestra, by Tadeusz Szeligowski (1930) *Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 43, by

Adolf Busch Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Eldering. ...

(published 1931) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Gian Francesco Malipiero Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Life Early years Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gi ...

(1931) *Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 24, by Knudåge Riisager (1931) *Philharmonic Concerto, by Paul Hindemith (1932) *Concerto per orchestra in Do maggiore, by

Mario Pilati Mario Pilati (2 June 1903 – 10 December 1938) was an Italian composer. Pilati was born in Naples, and his natural musical talent showed itself when he was very young. He entered the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella at the age of fi ...

(1933) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

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 ...

(1933), which is based in part on Hindemith's work *Concerto for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1934) *Concerto per orchestra, Op. 61, by

Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a f ...

(1937) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. ...

(1939–40) *Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes), by

Richard Mohaupt Richard Mohaupt (14 September 1904 – 3 July 1957) was a German composer and Kapellmeister. Life and career Richard Mohaupt was born in Breslau, where he studied music at Breslau University with Julius Prüwer and Rudolf Bilke. After his ...

(1942–43) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

(1943) *Concerto No. 1 for Orchestra 'Arevakal', Op. 88, by

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts ...

(1951) *Concerto No. 2 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1951) *Concerto No. 4 for Orchestra, Op. 98, No. 2, by Alan Hovhaness (1952) *Concerto No. 7 for Orchestra, Op. 116, by Alan Hovhaness (1953) *Concerto No. 3 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1953) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Tadeusz Baird Tadeusz Baird (26 July 19282 September 1981) was a Polish composer. Biography Baird was born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in Poland. His father Edward was Polish, while his mother Maria (née Popov) was Russian. In 1944 at the age of 16 he was deport ...

(1953) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanow ...

(1950–54), which won him the UNESCO 1st prize in 1963. *Concerto for Orchestra, "À Darius Milhaud" by

Alexandre Tansman Alexander Tansman (, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of neoclassicism, associated with ...

(1954) *Concerto No. 4 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1954) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Anatol Vieru Anatol Vieru (; 8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, and chamber music. He also wrote three o ...

(1954-55) *Concerto No. 5 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1955) *Concerto No. 8 for Orchestra, Op. 117, by Alan Hovhaness (1957) *Concerto No. 6 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1957) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Giya Kancheli Gia Kancheli ( ka, გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and resided in Belgium in later life. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli ...

(1961) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Grażyna Bacewicz Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist of Lithuanian origin. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Ma ...

(1962) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Michael Tippett Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as o ...

(1962–63) *Concerto No. 7 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1963–64) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, ''Naughty Limericks'', by

Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin ( rus, Родион Константинович Щедрин, , rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin; born 16 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR St ...

(1963) *Concerto for orchestra, by Akira Miyoshi (1964) *

Métaboles ''Métaboles'' is an orchestral work by Henri Dutilleux, commissioned by the conductor George Szell in 1959 to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Cleveland Orchestra. ''Métaboles'' was composed in 1963–64 and was first performed by Szell and t ...

, by

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music. Among the leading French composers of his time, his work was rooted in the Impressionistic style of Debussy and R ...

(1964) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Havergal Brian William Havergal Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer, librettist, and church organist. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies—an unusually high number amongst his contemporaries—25 of them ...

(1964) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Robert Gerhard Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish and British composer, musical scholar, and writer, generally known outside his native region of Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.Malcolm MacDonald. 'Gerhard, Roberto' ...

(1965) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, ''Gala Music'', by

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 ...

(1966) *Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 8, by

Robin Holloway Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer. Early life Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was educated at King's College School, ...

(1967) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Thea Musgrave Thea Musgrave Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Barnton, Edinburgh, Mus ...

(1967) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 2, ''The Chimes'', by Rodion Shchedrin (1968) *Concerto for Orchestra by

Oliver Knussen Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Among the most influential British composers of his generation, his relatively few compositions are "rooted in 20th-cen ...

(1969) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer who was one of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century. He combined elements of European modernism and American " ...

(1969) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Dimitar Tapkoff Dimitar Tapkoff (12 July 1929 – 7 May 2011) was a Bulgarian musician, music educator and composer. Life and career Dimitar Tapkoff was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and studied composition with Bulgarian composer Marin Goleminov. After completing hi ...

(1969) *Concerto for Orchestra by

Aleksandra Pakhmutova Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova ( ; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. ...

(1971) *Concerto No. 8 for Orchestra, by Goffredo Petrassi (1970–72) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique ...

(1973) *Concerto for orchestra, by

Anthony Payne Anthony Edward Payne (2 August 1936 – 30 April 2021) was an English composer, music critic and musicologist. He is best known for his acclaimed completion of Edward Elgar's third symphony, which gained wide acceptance into Elgar's ''oeuvre' ...

(1974) *Philharmonic Concerto, Op. 120, by

Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music f ...

(1976) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 2, by Gunther Schuller (1976) *Second Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 40, by Robin Holloway (1978) *''Concerto Festivo'', for orchestra without conductor, by

Andrzej Panufnik Sir Andrzej Panufnik (pronounced: ; 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 t ...

(1979) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, a ...

(1979–81), which won him the

Pulitzer Prize for Music The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first given in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year, and this was eventually converted i ...

in 1982. *Concerto for Orchestra (Suite), by Alexandre Tansman (1981) *Concerto for Orchestra, by John McCabe (1982) *Concerto for Orchestra, by Stephen Paulus (1983) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Edward Gregson Edward Gregson (born 23 July 1945) is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television. He was also principal of the Royal Northern ...

(1983) (revised versions 1989 and 2001) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Robert Saxton Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer. Biography Robert Saxton was born in London and started composing at the age of six. He was educated at Bryanston School. Guidance in early years from Benjamin Britten and El ...

(1984) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 3, ''Farbenspiel'', by Gunther Schuller (1985) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Alun Hoddinott Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 12 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition. Life and works Hoddinott was born in Bargoed, Glamorganshire, Wales. He was educated at Gow ...

(1986) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Karel Husa Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to ...

(1986) * Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, by

Steven Stucky Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Life and career Steven Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager ...

(1986–87) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...

(1986–89), which is also known as "Jubilee Games" for orchestra and

baritone A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...

. *Third Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 80, by Robin Holloway (1981–94) *Concerto for Orchestra (Variations without a theme), by Denys Bouliane (1985–95) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 3, ''Old Russian Circus Music'', by Rodion Shchedrin (1989) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 4, ''Round Dances (Khorovody)'', by Rodion Shchedrin (1989) * Concerto for Orchestra, by Joan Tower (1991) *Concerto for Orchestra – Zoroastrian Riddles, by

Richard Danielpour Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956) is an American composer and academic, currently affiliated with the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of California, Los Angeles. Early life Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian Jew ...

(1996) * Strathclyde Concerto No. 10: Concerto for Orchestra, by

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 ...

(1996) *Concerto for Orchestra No. 5, ''Four Russian Songs'', by Rodion Shchedrin (1998) *Concerto for Orchestra (reseated), by

Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. B ...

(1998) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

Stanisław Skrowaczewski Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski (; October 3, 1923 – February 21, 2017) was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer. Biography Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine). His pa ...

(1999) *'' Boston Concerto'', by

(2002) * Concerto for Orchestra by

Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemp ...

(2002) *Yi°: Concerto for Orchestra, by

Tan Dun Tan Dun (, ; born 18 August 1957) is a Chinese-born American composer and conductor. A leading figure of contemporary classical music, he draws from a variety of Western and Chinese influences, a pairing which has shaped much of his life and mu ...

(2002) *Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 81 by

Lowell Liebermann Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961, in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1. He studied at the Juilliar ...

(2002) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

Magnus Lindberg Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017. Ear ...

(2003) * Second Concerto for Orchestra, by Steven Stucky (2003), which won him the

in 2005 *Concerto for Orchestra, by David Horne (2003–04) *Concerti for Orchestra, by

Milton Babbitt Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for his serial and electronic music. Biography ...

(2004) *Concierto para orquestra, by Agustí Charles (2004) *Fourth Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 101 by Robin Holloway (2004–06) *Concerto for Orchestra by Fabian Müller (2007-2008) * Concerto for Orchestra, by Christopher Rouse (2007–2008) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Rolf Martinsson Rolf Martinsson (born 1 May 1956 in Glimåkra, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish composer. Martinsson studied composition at Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University 1981-85 under Brian Ferneyhough, Sven-David Sandström, Hans Eklund, Sven-Eric Johan ...

(2008) * Symphony No. 5 (Concerto for Orchestra), by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (2008) *Fifth Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 107, by Robin Holloway (2009–10) *''Morning in Long Island'', Concert No. 1 for orchestra, by

Pascal Dusapin Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy. A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse, Dusapin studied at the University of Pari ...

(2011) * Concerto for Orchestra, by Marc Neikrug (2012) *''Morpheus'', by

Søren Nils Eichberg Søren Nils Eichberg (born 23 July 1973) is a German/Danish classical composer and conductor. Biography Eichberg was born in Stuttgart. He studied piano, composition and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen, Cologne and Berlin. He had his first br ...

(2012) *''Godai; The five elements'', Concerto for orchestra by Benjamin Staern (2012–13) *, by

Thierry Escaich Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich (born 8 May 1965) is a French organist and composer. Life Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), where he won eight First Prizes a ...

(2014) *Concerto for Orchestra, by

Carl Vine Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue inclu ...

(2014) *Concerto for Orchestra, by Zhou Tian (2015) *'' Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra'', by

Gabriela Lena Frank Gabriela Lena Frank (born September 1972) is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gabriela Lena Frank was born in Berkeley, California, United States. Her father is of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mo ...

(2016) * Concerto for Orchestra, by

André Previn André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...

(2016) *'' SPIRA'', by

Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin ( ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was a self-taught pianist from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with ...

(2019) *Concerto for Orchestra, by George Benjamin (2021) *Concerto for Orchestra, by Robin Haigh (2023)

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 a ...

*Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, '' Concerto alla rustica'', by

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

(between the mid-1720s and 1730) * Concerto for Double String Orchestra by

(1938–39) * Concerto in D by

Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century c ...

(1946) *Concerto for String Orchestra by

(1948) *Concerto for String Orchestra by

Alan Rawsthorne Alan Rawsthorne (2 May 1905 – 24 July 1971) was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex. Early years Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to ...

(1949) *Concerto for String Orchestra No. 1 by

Allan Pettersson Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19 September 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Swedish composer and violist. He is considered one of the 20th century's most important Swedish composers and was described as one of the last great symphonists, ...

(1949–50) *Concerto for String Orchestra No. 2 by Allan Pettersson (1956) *Concerto for String Orchestra No. 3 by Allan Pettersson (1956–57) *Concerto per archi by

Nino Rota Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (; ; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) 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 Visconti. He also composed ...

(1964–65, nuova revisione 1977) *Concerto per corde by

Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical music, 20th-century classical composers of the Americas. Biography G ...

(1966)

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chamber orchestra Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

*Concerto for Chamber Orchestra by

George Antheil George Johann Carl Antheil ( ; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the ear ...

(1932) * Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 by

Anton Webern Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...

(1924) *Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists by

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...

(1969–70) *Kammerkonzert by Manfred Trojahn (1973) *Concerto for Orchestra by

John Woolrich John Woolrich ( ; born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Biography Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in association with the Orchestra of St John's and t ...

(1999) *'' Asko Concerto'' by

(2000) *''Rain of Tears'' by

Chinary Ung Chinary Ung ( ) (born November 24, 1942, in Takéo, Cambodia) is a composer currently living in California, United States. Career After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and M ...

(2006)

For wind orchestra

Works variously titled for band, wind orchestra, and wind ensemble: * Concerto for Wind Orchestra, by

Colin McPhee Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali, and to develop American gamelan along ...

(1959) * Concerto for Wind Orchestra, Op. 41, by

Nikolai Lopatnikoff Nikolai Lopatnikoff (Russian, Николай Львович Лопатников; born 16 March 1903 in Tallinn - 7 October 1976 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a Russian-American composer, music teacher and university lecturer. He composed some ...

(1963) * Concierto para banda: 1.Allegro, 2.Lento, 3.Allegro, by Amando Blanquer Ponsoda (1970-71) * Concerto for Wind Ensemble, by Steven Bryant (2006-07) * Concerto for Wind Ensemble, by

(1982)

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For symphony 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: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

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 a ...

For chamber orchestra Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

For wind orchestra

See also

References

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symphony 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: * String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, ...

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 a ...

For
chamber orchestra Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...