Rosetti's Bassoon Concerts. The bassoon developed quite late in the Baroque period from a pure accompaniment instrument of the basso continuo to a solo instrument - also possible. With his 40 concerts, Vivaldi has rendered important services to emancipation. In the age of classical music, the bassoon and its playing technique developed further, so that both virtuosos and composers were strongly encouraged to continue to cultivate the genre of the bassoon concerto as a peculiarity. Mozart's KV 191 of 1774 is probably the most famous example. Antonio Rosetti began his career at the Oettingen-Wallersteinschen Hof, albeit not with the bassoon, but with the double bass, and then slowly but steadily rose to the position of Kapellmeister of this Hofkapelle and widely acclaimed orchestra leader. His six surviving bassoon concertos, of which Eckart Hübner and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss re-recorded the following four with Murray No. 69, 73-75 for cpo, show that he also had a weakness for bass instruments as a composer. With the bassoonist Ludwig Hoppius, Rosetti had one of the greatest virtuosos of this instrument in his orchestra, and the solo parts are accordingly virtuoso. It goes without saying that all four concerts are marked by a wonderful melodic invention.