Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the modern-day trumpet concerto has occasionally been structured in four or more movements.
The following concertos are presently found near the centre of the mainstream Western repertoire for the trumpet.
Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Arnold Gross Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Georg Reutter Franz Xavier Richter Antonio Vivaldi Francesco Onofrio Manfredini Giuseppe Torelli Johann Christoph Graupner Franz Querfurth Johann Wilhelm Hertel Joseph Riepel Valentin Rathgeber Johann Melchior Molter Georg Philipp Telemann Laue (fl.
c. 1770) Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Baptist Neruda Johann Nepomuk Hummel Leopold Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Amilcare Ponchielli Oskar Böhme Kalevi Aho Alexander Arutunian Alfred Baum Herbert Blendinger Peter Maxwell Davies Duke Ellington Michael Gilbertson Geoffrey Gordon Helen Grime Heinz Karl Gruber Robin Haigh Steve Heitzeg André Jolivet Lowell Liebermann John Mackey Ennio Morricone Thea Musgrave William P. Perry Gerhard Präsent Christopher Rouse Kaija Saariaho Philip Sawyers R. Murray Schafer Frank Ticheli Henri Tomasi Mieczysław Weinberg Jörg Widmann Grace Williams John Williams Joe Wolfe Ellen Taaffe Zwilich