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Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata op. 17 for Johann Wenzel, one of the most famous horn players of his day. According to an anecdote from Beethoven's pupil Ferdinand Ries, he only completed it on the day before the première. Nevertheless, ...

Brahms’s famous Horn Trio op.40, composed in 1865 for the natural horn, is a work of considerable significance within the composer’s output. Up until now the work was believed to have a strong emotional connection to the death of his mother ...

All four Mozart horn concertos are closely associated with the horn player Joseph Leutgeb, for whom they were written during the composer’s period in Vienna (between 1783 and 1791). They display his compositional approach to the possibilities ...

Mozart’s horn concertos belong indisputably to the best in the literature; they are melodic, dramatic and virtuoso.

Franz Giegling’s editorial work on the concertos in the New Mozart Edition is the definitive scholarly-critical ...

Mozart’s horn concertos belong indisputably to the best in the literature; they are melodic, dramatic and virtuoso.

Franz Giegling’s editorial work on the concertos in the New Mozart Edition is the definitive scholarly-critical ...

Die vorliegende Ausgabe birgt für den Mozartfreund, vor allem aber für den Hornisten, eine Sensation: zwar ist Mozarts Horn-Rondo KV 371 aus dem Jahr 1781 seit langem bekannt, und es hat nicht an Versuchen gefehlt, die unvollständige ...

Mit diesem Angebot an leichten Spielstücken eröffnen sich dem jungen Trompeter gut 400 Jahre Musikliteratur: Die Auswahl reicht von Monteverdi bis Tschaikowsky, von volkstümlichen Melodien bis hin zu eigens für diese Sammlung ...