Splendidly orchestrated, Haydn's concerto fully exploits the trumpet's new technical abilities. Surviving in a single manuscript copy, this extraordinary work wasn't performed again until 1929. Weidinger did not perform the Concerto in public until 1800. The modern trumpet has been greatly refined since Weidinger's time, but the principle remains the same. Weidinger invented a keyed trumpet along the lines of a woodwind instrument with drilled holes in the body of the instrument, the player could easily raise the pitch in half-tone steps, enabling them to play chromatic passages. The valveless trumpets of the time could play only notes derived from a fundamental pitch and its related harmonic series, and so trumpet music tended to be melodically limited. In the final years of his career Haydn seemed to prefer large choral works to instrumental pieces, but he was intrigued by a request for a concerto from Anton Weidinger, the trumpeter in the Vienna Court Orchestra. A favorite of the trumpet repertoire and possibly Haydn's most popular concerto, this work was composed in 1796 while the composer was working on the Creation.
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