Trumpet Concerto | |
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by Peter Maxwell Davies | |
![]() The composer in 2012 | |
Movements | 3 |
Premiere | |
Date | September 21, 1988 |
Location | Hiroshima |
Conductor | Giuseppe Sinopoli |
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The Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra is a composition for trumpet solo and orchestra by the British composer Peter Maxwell Davies. The work was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra for its then principal trumpeter John Wallace.[1] It was given its world premiere by Wallace and the Philharmonia Orchestra under the conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli in Hiroshima on 21 September 1988.[2]