"Carl Maria von Weber’s bassoon concerto owes its existence to his 1811 sojourn in Munich, where he enjoyed great success at court as a pianist and, above all, as a composer – “The whole orchestra has taken leave of their senses and want to have concertos from me,” he reported. Besides the two clarinet concertos and the concertino for his friend Heinrich Baermann, the bassoon concerto for Friedrich Brandt, principal bassoonist of the Munich Court Orchestra, was also composed there in November 18...