Tuba concerto

Ferdinand David wrote no concerto for tuba. What tuba and euphonium players perform under his name is the Concertino in E flat major, opus 4, composed in 1837 for the trombonist Karl Traugott Queisser, his colleague in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and first played there with Mendelssohn conducting. Its three sections, an Allegro maestoso, a Marcia funebre and a closing Allegro, became the standard nineteenth-century test piece for low brass, and the transfer to tuba followed once that instrument acquired a solo literature of its own.