A trumpet concerto is a concerto for solo trumpet 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. Although comparatively rare compared to concertos for other instruments, some major composers have contributed to the trumpet concerto repertoire, such as Joseph Haydn in his Trumpet Concerto in E-flat. Traditionally a three-movement work, the modern-day trumpet concerto has occasionally been structured in four or more movements. In some trumpet concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the trumpet is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra.

Selected list of trumpet concertos

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

Baroque era

Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Arnold Gross Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Georg Reutter Franz Xavier Richter Antonio Vivaldi Francesco Onofrio Manfredini Giuseppe Torelli Johann Christoph Graupner Franz Querfurth Johann Wilhelm Hertel Joseph Riepel Valentin Rathgeber Johann Melchior Molter Georg Philipp Telemann

Classical era

Laue (fl. c. 1760) Otto (fl. c. 1770) Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Baptist Neruda Johann Nepomuk Hummel Leopold Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Romantic era

Amilcare Ponchielli Oskar Böhme

Modern era

Kalevi Aho Alexander Arutunian Alfred Baum Herbert Blendinger Peter Maxwell Davies Duke Ellington Michael Gilbertson Geoffrey Gordon Helen Grime Heinz Karl Gruber Robin Haigh Steve Heitzeg André Jolivet Lowell Liebermann John Mackey Ennio Morricone Thea Musgrave William P. Perry Gerhard Präsent Christopher Rouse Kaija Saariaho Philip Sawyers R. Murray Schafer Frank Ticheli Henri Tomasi Mieczysław Weinberg Jörg Widmann Grace Williams John Williams Joe Wolfe Ellen Taaffe Zwilich