Concerto for flute and orchestra in D Major

Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini: Concerto for flute and orchestra in D Major was written around 1780 and published by the House of Sieber in Paris.in 1783 as one of "2 Flute Concerti, Op. 37".

In the early 1780s, Cambini was a highly successful and prolific composer in Paris, known especially for his chamber music and symphonies concertantes (of which he wrote over 80). He was not tied to a single patron but composed for the general public and an active concert life that included a wealthy bourgeois class of amateur musicians. His style reflected the popular French galant aesthetic, which prioritized lightness, charm, and elegant melody, making his music very popular at the time.

This period is marked by the infamous 1778 incident where Mozart accused Cambini of conspiring to prevent the performance of his own Sinfonia Concertante for winds at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
In April 1778, during his stay in Paris, the 22-year-old Mozart was commissioned by Legros to write a sinfonia concertante for a group of virtuoso Mannheim wind players who were visiting Paris.
At the last minute, Mozart's piece was removed from the program. According to Mozart's letters to his father, a piece by Cambini for similar forces was performed instead at the April concert.
In a letter to his father, Leopold, Mozart voiced his suspicion that Cambini, who was the leading composer of symphonies concertantes in Paris at the time, was responsible for the cancellation out of envy and professional rivalry. He believed Cambini had somehow intervened to ensure his own work was performed instead, effectively silencing Mozart's work in Paris.