Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani for Trumpet Ensemble (two complete editions, Ab & F concert)

Digital Sheet Music

By Johann Ernst Altenburg

Item Number: A0.817150

Need an impressive and accessible showcase for your ambitious trumpet section? Then this famous and elegant three-movement, mini-concerto for trumpeters from Johann Ernst Altenburg’s extensive 1795 treatise Essay on an introduction to the heroic and musical trumpeters’ and kettledrummers’ art is a rewarding experience for trumpeters to expand their musical horizons. Composed for 18th century court trumpeters with valveless instruments, the work is scored for solo trumpet with two antiphonal trios and timpani. Each movement presents contrasting musical styles, the first fanfare figures, the second expressive lyricism, and the third facile scale runs. Two complete editions for B-flat trumpets are included, each with full score and parts, one in A-flat concert for more advanced players and a second in F concert to make it more accessible for less experienced trumpeters. The second and third movements, traditionally set in 4/8 and 3/8, are changed to 4/4 and 3/4 as more frequently encountered time signatures. Consider opening your next band concert featuring the trumpet section performing this impressive work. The sound file is an actual trumpet ensemble performance of the entire edition and not a computer playback of the score.

Check out more than 40 homogeneous horn, trumpet and trombone ensemble works for inexperienced to advanced musicians at Charles Decker Music Press as well as 50 more Charles Decker Music Press publications for mixed brass ensembles with music ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary new works for trios, quartets, quintets, brass choir and brass band. Many of the mixed brass ensemble editions include B-flat and alternate C trumpet parts, flugelhorn substitute for horn, horn substitute for trombone and treble clef euphonium for trombone. See also the Music of Black Composers Series with arrangements for mixed brass ensembles ranging from early jazz to symphonic works at Charles Decker Music Press. All ensemble publications include recordings of the entire edition.

Kendor Music also publishes more of my trumpet ensemble arrangements of music by Bach, Handel, and Renaissance composers Gervaise, Susato.

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