 Rough contemporaries Georg Druschetzky and Johann Melchior Molter also wrote pieces for timpani and orchestra.Throughout the 19th century and much of the 20th, there were few new timpani concertos.In 1983, William Kraft, principal timpanist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, composed his "Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra", which won second prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards.