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Three generations of the Toeschi family were in the employ of the Elector Palatine of the Rhine whose music-loving courts were located at first at Heildelberg, then at Mannheim, and later, Munich. Giuseppe Toeschi (1731-1788) also known as Carl Joseph Toeschi, was one of two brothers of the middle generation active at the court of Mannheim from 1752 to 1778 when Carl Theodor was Elector.  A violinist and composer, Giuseppe was a student of Johann Stamitz.

His Oboe Quartet in G major of 1772 is found in the music collection of the Öttingen-Wallerstein family whose court, like that of the Elector Palatine's, was part of the vast conglomeration of little states under the aegis of the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. The movements of this work are three in number: it lacks the usual rondo finale, closing with a minuet and trio. The fist movement in cast in the inevitable sonata form, while the slow movement is a rondeau.

The Breitkopf thematic catologue of 1774 lists this composition as a flute quartet; and it is true that the range up to high E3 makes it appropriate for oboe or flute. But to make matters yet more complicated, Toeschi designates this work as Quartetto per il Oboe ò Cembalo, and supplies a part for cembalo that combines the oboe part with that of the cello to produce a keyboard version that one can play with the string trio or perhaps alone.