The music for solo trumpet and cornet with orchestra from ca. 1870 to 1910 in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music

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The objective of this document is to examine the solo trumpet and cornet literature from the late nineteenth century found in the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in Philadelphia. The music in this collection is interesting and important in that it differs in several ways from many pieces from the period that are now popular in the repertoire. The first difference is that these works are all accompanied by orchestra, as opposed to the more typical band accompaniment. Secondly, these compositions were written by European composers, in contrast to the American ties exhibited by many popular nineteenth-century cornet solos. Finally, several pieces in the Fleisher Collection were written for trumpet instead of cornet. These solos are particularly important from a historical perspective, as the trumpet of that period is not commonly thought of as a solo instrument. The majority of the compositions date from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but works in a similar s

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