On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 John Howell wrote wrote:
The composers who wrote for natural horns were awfully clever in what they could get out of their horn players. Especially Mozart, perhaps because his buddies in Mannheim demonstrated what they could do with their hands, but even in using just the normal open notes Mozart was much more demanding than, say, Beethoven.
Beethoven's Horn Sonata in F, Op. 19 (1800) is a superb (and gorgeous) example of what can be done with a hand horn. Written for Giovanni Punto, the leading virtuoso hornist of the day, it goes well beyond any of Mozart's scores in terms of technique required.
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