As I promised yesterday, I did check the Trenner thematic index for Strauss' works and the etudes do not appear to have aver been published. There is a pencil copy (or original - my grasp of German understands the "bleistift" part of the description but not what follows. I will try to take a second look to settle this) in the Richard Strauss Archives. From the look of the incipits, they are technically over-involved and mostly of curiosity value and not in line with what you would expect after looking at Mueller, Kopprasch, Gumpert, Franz, et al.
I wonder if the original poster was actually thinking of Brahms' horn etudes. These are available (I have an old Klaas Weelinck KaWe Edition - Hans P. may have picked this title up and gotten it back in print) and, while not that great or even Brahmsian, are somewhat playable. Peter Hirsch _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
