The Oboe Concerto No. 1 in B flat major (HWV 301) was composed by George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

 for oboe, orchestra and basso continuo. It was first published in the fourth volume of Select Harmony by Walsh

John Walsh (printer)

John Walsh was an English music publisher of Irish descent, established off the Strand, London, by c. 1690. He was appointed musical instrument-maker-in-ordinary to the king in 1692....

 in 1740. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG

Händel-Gesellschaft

Between 1858 and 1902, the Händel-Gesellschaft, or "German Handel Society," produced a collected 105-volume edition of the works of Georg Frideric Handel. Even though the collection was initiated by the society, many of the volumes were published by Friedrich Chrysander working alone...

 xxi,85; and HHA

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe

The Hallische Händel-Ausgabe is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel. It was first published in the 1950s: initially as an adjunct to the HG edition, but by 1958 as a collected edition in its own right...

 iv/12,17.

The concerto is thought to be an early work of Handel's, however the attribution to Handel has been questioned on stylistic grounds

A typical performance of the work takes almost eight minutes.

Movements

The work consists of four movements

Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...

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Movement	Type	Notes
1	Adagio
2	Allegro
3	Siciliana
4	Vivace	In the rhythm of a minuet