Johann Baptist Wanhal was a prolific and popular composer of concertos. His total output, which runs to over sixty works, can be compared with that of his close contemporary Leopold Hofmann whose concertos also enjoyed great popularity during the 1760s and 1770s. Like Hofmann, Wanhal did not write concertos exclusively for his own use although he doubtless played a number of them when and where occasion demanded. There is little way of knowing for whom the majority of his concertos were written ...