A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra.
The modern English horn was developed from the oboe da caccia in the 1720s, probably in Silesia.
The earliest known English horn concertos were written in the 1770s, mostly by prominent oboists of the day, such as Giuseppe Ferlendis, Ignaz Malzat (and his non-oboist brother Johann Michael Malzat) and Joseph Lacher.
Among the oldest extant English horn concertos are those by Josef Fiala (a period transcription of a piece originally for viola da gamba) and Anton Milling.
[1] Many solos in orchestral works were written for the English horn and a decent amount of chamber music appeared for it as well.