solo: clar – 2.2.0.2 – 3.2.0.0 – timp – str

Carl Maria von Weber composed his Clarinet Concerto in F minor in the course of only a few weeks in 1811. It was written for Heinrich Joseph Baermann (1784–1847), the clarinetist of the Munich Hofkapelle, to whom it was also dedicated. The work had a resounding success at its first performance in Munich on 13 June 1811. The F-minor Concerto was first published in 1822.

The work adheres to the classical three-movement form. Exceptional are, howeve...