Repertoire (selection)
| Operas | |
|---|---|
| Gioacchino Rossini | Various operas (for valve trumpet) |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | Various operas (for valve trumpet) |
| Richard Wagner | Rienzi (1837–1840, for valve and natural trumpets), Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman, 1840/41, valve and natural trumpets), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Meistersingers of Nuremberg, 1861–1867), Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, 1853–1874), Parsifal (1882) |
| Giuseppe Verdi | Aida (1870), Otello (1887) |
| Georges Bizet | Carmen (1875) |
| Richard Strauss | Salome (1905), Elektra (1908), Der Rosenkavalier (1911) |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Licht (1983) |
| Symphonic works | |
|---|---|
| Wolfgang A. Mozart | Symphony in C ("Jupiter") (1788) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphonies no. 1 (1800), 5 (1808), 6 (1808); Leonore overture (1806) |
| Richard Wagner | Symphony in C major (1832) |
| Piotr I. Tchaikovsky | Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet (1869/80) Capriccio Italien (1880), Symphonies |
| Leoš Janáček | Sinfonietta (9 trumpets) (1925) |
| Gustav Mahler | 5th symphony (1st movement: trumpet fanfare; "funeral march") (1902) |
| Claude Debussy | Nocturnes (1901) |
| Richard Strauss | Don Juan (1889), Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (1895), Ein Heldenleben (1898) |
| Béla Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra (1943/45) |
| Igor Stravinsky | Symphony in C (1940) |
| Alban Berg | Violin concerto (1935) |
| Aaron Copland | 3rd symphony |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphonies no. 1 (1925) and 5 (1937), 1st piano concerto (1933) |
| Elliott Carter | A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976) |
| Witold Lutosławski | 1st symphony (1947) |
| Hans Werner Henze | Requiem (1990–92) |
| Trumpet and orchestra | |
|---|---|
| Joseph Haydn | Trumpet concerto in E-flat major (1796) (for valve trumpet) |
| Johann N. Hummel | Trumpet concerto in E major (1803) (for valve trumpet) |
| Michele Puccini | Concerto for flute, clarinet, valve trumpet, horn and orchestra (1838) |
| Paul Hindemith | Concerto for trumpet, bassoon and strings (1949/52) |
| Trumpet ensemble / solo trumpet | |
|---|---|
| Jean Françaix | Sonatas, duets |
| Harald Genzmer | Sonatas, duets |
| Hans Werner Henze | Sonatina for 8 brass instruments (1983) Sonatina (1974) |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | Aris (1977/80) |
| Mauricio Kagel | Fanfaren for 4 trumpets (1993) |
Further composers of recent repertoire: Georges Enescu, Bohuslav Martinů, Arthur Honegger, H. Tomasi, André Jolivet, Yves Baudrier, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Vinko Globokar |
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