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By 1790, Georg Feldmayr (1756-c.1818) had certainly heard a good deal of the music composed by Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and this Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F Major reflects his interest in some of their procedures.

Perhaps the most important of the concepts that Feldmayr sought to utilize in this composition is the relationship of the third. The initial movement is laid out in the usual Ritornello form but without the expected Sonata Form overlay. This permits the composer greater freedom in the development of the three episodes. Indeed, the most interesting of the episodes is the third one which ends on a fermata in E Major, the dominant of A minor, which lies a third above the tonic of F major! At that point the oboist must devise a cadenza which modulates back to the tonic because that is where the final ritornello begins.

The central movement is sadly lacking. If it followed the format found in the other three Feldmayr concertos located in the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection, then it was certainly a Romance. That is to say, it was a movement in which the oboist would be given ample opportunity to add florid ornamentation and cadenzas.

The finale is laid out as a rondeau with two couplets enclosed by three exact repetitions of the refrain. A coda, utilizing material derived from the second couplet together with several additional closing themes, brings the concerto to an end with the winds blazing on fortissimo chords.

This concerto is an important addition to the repertory of the oboe soloist.