On 5 Nov 2010 at 20:41, John Howell wrote: > At 12:46 PM -0400 11/5/10, Raymond Horton wrote: > >Not Dvorak - he wrote in keys just as Brahms, [Dvorak > >6th = Horn 1, 2 (in D, F, E), 3, 4 (in E, Bb, D)] if more > >chromatically. > > Yes, AND his horn parts are all playable by natural (hand) horns in > those keys. Which would cause me to ask about the horn players in > Bohemia at that time, and what kind of instruments they were playing.
Well, certainly Bohemia in Mozart's days was the home of all the legendary horn and wind players. Almost all the great wind virtuosos in Vienna during Mozart's time and the period thereafter were Bohemian. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
