Concerto in E-flat, subtitled
Dumbarton Oaks 8-v-1938 (1937–38) is a chamber concerto by
Igor Stravinsky, named for the
Dumbarton Oaks estate of
Robert Woods Bliss and
Mildred Barnes Bliss in
Washington, DC, who commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary. Composed in Stravinsky's
neo-classical period, the piece is one of Stravinsky's two chamber concertos (the other being the
Concerto in D, for strings, 1946) and is scored for a
chamber orchestra of
flute, ,
bassoon, two
horns, three
violins, three
violas, two
cellos, and two
double basses. The three movements, Tempo giusto, Allegretto, and Con moto, performed without a break, total roughly twelve minutes. The concerto was the last work Stravinsky completed in Europe, started in spring 1937 at the Château de Montoux near
Annemasse, near
Geneva,
Switzerland, and finished in Paris on March 29, 1938 .