Repertoire (selection)
| Orchestral bassoon | |
|---|---|
| Reinhard Keiser | Atalanta (1698), Octavia (1705) |
| George Frideric Handel | Oratorios |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Cantatas (obligato parts), Sinfonia F major |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio, 1769) |
| Joseph Haydn | Late symphonies (2 bassoons) |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Jupiter symphony |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 4th symphony |
| Hector Berlioz | La Damnation de Faust |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Don Carlo, Otello, Messa da Requiem |
| Richard Wagner | Der Ring des Nibelungen (4 bassoons) |
| Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 4th, 5th, 6th symphonies (solo bassoon in 6th) |
| Gustav Mahler | Symphonies (4 bassoons, contrabassoon) |
| Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Schéhérazade op. 35 (1888) |
| Igor Stravinsky | Le sacre du printemps (1913) |
| Maurice Ravel | Boléro |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 9th symphony |
| Concertos for bassoon and orchestra | |
|---|---|
| Antonio Vivaldi | 39 bassoon concertos |
| Johann Baptist Vanhal | Concerto F major for 2 bassoons and orchestra |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Bassoon concerto in B-flat major, K. 191/186e (1774) Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major (for oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon) |
| Joseph Haydn | Sinfonia concertante in B-flat minor(for oboe, bassoon, violin, and cello) |
| Carl Maria von Weber | Bassoon concerto in F major, op. 75 (1811) Andante e Rondo ungarese op. 35 (1816) |
| Richard Strauss | Concertino for bassoon and clarinet, op. 147 (1947) |
| Paul Hindemith | Double concerto for trumpet and bassoon |
| André Jolivet | Concerto for bassoon, strings, piano, and harp (1954) |
| Bruno Bartolozzi | Conzertazioni for bassoon, strings, and percussion (1963) |
| Sofia Gubaidulina | Bassoon concerto |
| Chamber music | |
|---|---|
| Michel Corette | Le Phénix (4 bassoons and organ or cembalo) |
| Johann E. Gaillard | Chamber music for 24 bassoons and 4 double-basses (c. 1745) |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Sonata B-flat major for bassoon and cello, K. 292 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 3 duets for bassoon and clarinet Sextet in E-flat major for 2 clarinets, horns, and bassoons, op. 71 (1796) |
| Niccolò Paganini | Piece for violin and bassoon |
| Francois Devienne | 3 quartets op. 73 for bassoon and string trio, 1800 |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Sonata |
| Mihail I. Glinka | Trio Pathétique in d minor for bassoon, clarinet, and piano (1827) |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Scherzo humoristique op. 12 for 4 bassoons (1938) |
| Paul Hindemith | Kleine Kammermusik op. 24 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1922) |
| Jean Françaix | 7 impromptus for flute and bassoon (1977) Divertissement for bassoon and string quintet (1979) |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Adieu for woodwind quartet |
| Bassoon and piano | |
|---|---|
| Georg Philipp Telemann | Sonata in f minor (1728), sonata in e minor |
| Johann Friedrich Fasch | Sonata in C major |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | Sonata in G major, op. 168 (1921) |
| Paul Hindemith | Sonata (1938) |
| Henri Dutilleux | Sarabande et Cortège (1942) |
| Nikos Skalkottas | Sonata Conertante op. 67 (1943) |
| Iván Erőd | Sonata Milanese (1984) |
| Bassoon solo | |
|---|---|
| Egon Wellesz | Suite op. 77 (1957) |
| Gordon Jacob | Partita (1971) |
| Wilson Osborne | Rhapsody (1958) |
| Werner Pirchner | Mit Fa-Gottes Hilfe (1989) |