Horn (instrument) the "trombon da caccia" called for by Vivaldi in his opera "Orlando finto pazzo" (1714), and his Concerto in F for violin, two "trombon da caccia", two oboes, and bassoon, RV574, was also a hooped horn. In the eighteenth century some outstanding concertos were written for solo horn and orchestra by Telemann, Christoph Förster, Michael and Joseph Haydn, Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Carl Stamitz. Concerti grossi include concertos for two horns by Vivaldi and Bach’s First Brandenburg Concerto. At the end of the century Beethoven composed a Sonata for Horn and Piano in F major, Op. 17, for
Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart elevated to the most prominent position among the instruments. These works, with their alternation of orchestral "tuttis" and passages for solo display, in turn owe their structure to the tradition of Baroque operatic arias, from which the first movements of Mozart's piano concertos inherited their basic ritornello form. A similar structure can also be seen in the violin concerti of, for example, Vivaldi, who established the form, along with the three-movement concerto structure, and Viotti, wherein the concerto is divided into six sections. The keyboard parts of the concertos were almost invariably based on material presented in the ritornelli, and