now we are looking for some quality quartet music to play. Does anyone
have recommendations for good quality horn quartets/horn quartet
books?
We're hoping to eventually have enough material to play some gigs
Alex, the following collection offers everything you need in one
package. For
I don't suppose anyone out there knows
more about any of these hornists of old (with Hans having a good
long soak
in Indo-China, I guess I may have to wait for enlightenment in this
area).
Peter, I've let a little time go by to allow Prof. Pizka to respond
to the question, but in his
Can anyone suggest a reading list of books that deal specifically
with 'how=
' to approach practicing the horn, not 'what' to practice?
Michael Hoeltzel devotes a chapter to The Art of Practicing in his
Mastery of the French Horn. He not only discusses effective
practice methods, but
I will be going to Aber in a few weeks, and will do some investigating
Kit, you could do a noble deed for the horn world if you'd pop into
the National Library (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru -- I don't speak
this language but love how it looks and sounds) while you're in
Aberystwyth.
It wasn't written in Aberystwyth, Wales about 1997-1998 by 'Drofnyw
Senoj'
and 'Tniareg Siwel', by any chance?
Lawrence, Kit, I've been looking for Geraint Lewis' holy grail of
horn writings for years, but it's not common on bookshelves
hereabouts. Should you manage to locate a copy I'd
I have been looking for some repertoires for
horn + flute (with/without violin) (with/without piano)
Neuro, an album containing three pieces for horn, flute and piano
(original works, not arrangements) can be found here:
http://ebenos.com/frame2.html
Scroll down to the entry for Kling, H.,
I'm curious as to what instrument Mahler had in mind (and what
instrument is commonly used today, if different) to play the Tenor
Horn part for the first movement of Mahler 7.
Jonathan, though players outside central Europe to find it hard to
accept, Mahler did
indeed write the piece for
Alright an easy question for a quiet Sunday evening. Why did Brahms
specify that his horn trio should be played on a natural horn?
Lawrence, you have a piratical streak that I admire, and this is a
veritable fireship you've sent floating our way. Some involved
answers so far, but none that
as Gretal may have hindered your
Google search. But the following German music supplier lists such an
arrangement. Look for Humperdinck: Abendsegen under the rubric
Grosses Blechblaeser Ensemble.
http://www.spaeth-schmid.de/kataloge/blechblaeserensemble.pdf
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie
I would doubt that any horns were made in Germany in 1942 for any
purpose:
brass was a critical material. Does anyone know for sure?
Herb, you're quite right. Gebr. Alexander, the leading horn maker in
Germany, was classified as an essential wartime company, but this
just meant that it
You'll have to search the CD out yourself. It is produced by Gebr.
Alexander (you've heard of them?) and I can't recall how I obtained my
copy.
If anyone is after the BPO hornists' Opera CD, try the following
Dutch site:
http://www.rimskys-horns.com/eng/nieuws.html
Peter, I agree it's a
The Dalley Horn Catalogue lists Concerto as being published by
Ticherage =
Press,=20
Framfeld, England.
Ed, you'll have more success if you do your search armed with the
correct spelling of the publisher: Tickerage Press, Framfield. If
you don't have any luck finding it locally, try
Not much anywhere.Someone needs to go to Russia
and do some indepth work
Matthew's given Luke just the sort of information he needs for his
upcoming concert notes. But anyone looking for more detail might
hold off booking a trip to St. Petersburg, as sources available in
English
Anyone (Bill Melton, Hans, et al) out there know the whereabouts
of this piece, MS or published?
Peter, you'll find a modern edition of the horn and piano version of
Dietrich's Einleitung und Romanze / Konzertstueck, Op. 27 here:
http://www.ebenos.de/frame2.html
Scroll down the list of
Stephen, I agree with Hans Pizka that Langwill is not always
accurate when dealing with central European instrument makers, but in
the case of August Bopp it's spot on (Langwill's source for this was
the collector-scholar Karl Ventzke of Dueren). Erich Tremmel
(Blasinstrumentenbau im 19.
subject: [Hornlist] Who was Henri Kling?
Richard, a few additions to Martin Bender's excellent post can be
found here:
http://ebenos.com/frame2.html
Scroll down to Kling, H. and click on info.
Bill Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D)
They had only one left. I hope my wife got it :-).
Herb Foster
If not, Herb, give jpc.de a try: http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/
detail/-/hnum/9718944
Bill Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D)
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Here in east Belgium the air is getting crisper, and our walnut tree
has already lost its leaves -- sure signs that hunting season is upon
us, and game meats will make their fleeting appearance in local
butcher shops. Today (November 3rd) is St. Hubert's Day, and for us
that means a
feast. In
Of many things mentioned by Prof. Pizka, this nugget provoked interest:
My source is reliable as the owner was
just 17 years younger than Franz Strauss=B4 son Richard ... The two
scores are part of the heritage of the famous horn player
who=B4s biography I=B4m writing at the moment ... More
I'm guessing at the age, but the horn was made by Max Enders, who was
not building much after the first decade of the 1900's. (Bill Bamberg)
As I own a tenor horn that has - M. Enders Mainz 1934 Nr.1 - engraved
on the garland, and the Langwill Index 6th Edition cites Enders
advertising his
Ok, so how would one go about getting a copy of these editions?
Jay, get a copy of the old Breitkopf Haertel Beethovens Werke
edition. If you search at abebooks.com you'll find one inexpensively
at Decorum Books in London (a very nice source for old music).
Whatever the particular year
I apologize for the misspelling of your name, but my post was in
reaction to the way my suggestion was characterized ... My
suggestions aren't for everyone, but
it is pure arrogance to dismiss them publicly, as was done.
Bill, this pure arrogance business is as off the mark as your
Christine,
I've noticed that you've had some rather unhelpful advice about B
natural transposition -- If
you are great with tritones then it won't be a problem. Indeed.
Luckily, you've also had some advice from a professional solo hornist
who's sat on the hot seat for the last 25 years.
Sorry, William, Leinhos is an error in my dictionary. He did not
sign (as usual) the solopart. And the solohorn from Berlin was
higher in rank.
Many thanks for the information, Hans. By solo hornist from Berlin
do you mean Ferdinand Willner?
Bill Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester
The Long Call was NOT written for the Viennese F Horn but for any
single F-Horn. Leinhos did NOT play the Long Call at the Bayreuth
premiere - will check that in my documents after returning from Far
East report the name. Greetings Hans
Hans, you don't seem to recognize support when you
I think if you will re-read all of the message for LT in full
you'll note
his comment you cited were meant tongue-in-cheek (Bill Gross).
Bill, LT's intended meaning is not what prompted the response, but
his actual text: the myth that Wagner wrote the Siegfried Call for
Franz Strauss is
It says that Franz had to
re-write the
original long call because it was unplayable and that is what we have
today ...
... but then again, who says what Hans said is the truth?
I'd be happy to, LT: Hans Pizka told you the truth.
Wagner certainly knew the Strauss horn sound thoroughly
Is there any edition of the Norma-score available on the
web? I have problems reading off paper, but I have some well
lit large computer screens.
Klaus, try http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bah4585/
large/index.html
For those who don't know this resource, the friendly library
If you read German, I imagine that the book is quite useful, as it
contains all
kinds of good stuff. From what I understand, other translations of
the book
are in progress but not in any hurry.
Chris, translating Michael Hoeltzel's Hohe Schule des Horns was
indeed a lengthy process, as
I've more or less made up my mind to order a boxed set =
of Brahms Choral music with the 4 songs performed by the London
Symphony =
Chorus/City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard Hickox. There's
a =
whole lot more choral music in the five box set - and I'm sure
there's =
plenty that's
My Max Enders compensator was probably made concurrent with the
earliest Kruspe horns based on the fact that Max Enders was pretty
much retired before the 20th century.
Bill, the horn must postdate the earliest Kruspe compensating doubles
by at least a few years, as our best sources put
I always thought John Williams in 'E.T.' sounded particularly
Viennese, even by Hollywood standard which often reveals
its direct inheritance from late-romanticism
Jun isn't mishearing this. Still, John Williams is at home in quite
a few idioms other than the Korngold/Puccini style of 30s
I once heard
Barry Tuckwell perform Matyas Seiber's Notturno for
horn and strings. This is a gorgeous, brooding work
that I believe was written for Dennis Brain. I know of
no recordings of it.
I second Eric's recommendation of the Seiber. The BBC recorded Brain
playing the Notturno (on July
In January Howard Sanner raised this subject in another forum, and
since Joel Lazar expressed an interest this last week, perhaps it's
time to discuss the matter in some detail. To review, Barry Tuckwell's
notes to his 1990 Decca recording cite many unaccountable differences
between the
Nice to hear that so much music is being performed.
I just finished a performance of Carmen at the opera house about 40
minutes ago (with list member Mike Roberts on solo horn). Over the
weekend we did a live recording of the Verdi Requiem from the Aachen
Cathedral (a wonderful 1,200 year old
Since crafts and guilds, from musicians to plumbers, are by their very
nature closed societies, they tend to hold on to obscure expressions
long after the general population has given them up. For this reason
such words are best to be found in an older dictionary. Hermann Paul's
Deutches
My favourite Mozart cadenzas would have to be Michael Holtzel's, both
on his
old recording and the ones that are printed in Herr Pizka's book.
They are
virtuosic, musical and tasteful.
(I believe that Radovan Vlatkovic's cadenzas are based on Holtzel's as
well.)
All the best,
Chris Gongos
Barry Garbage was a fellow student with
me at the Northern School of Music in Manchester in 1966/67.
I understand that he was playing in Mannheim but has now retired (many
of
my generation are doing that now!)
Retired yes, Paul, but from Hanover's fine Niedersaechsisches
Staatsorchester.
Bill
Hi again Leonard - somewhere either on the net or in some literature
there is the history of the White/King company. {I will try to locate
it} What I seem to recall is the H.N. White founded the company
around the turn of the century or soon thereafter. One of his
trombone designs earned
FYI, I checked out the Baverian State Opera website to see whom Mr. P
was referring to:
http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/c.php/index_bso.php?l=dedom=dom1
I then did a search/display of their April 2004 schedule.
Compared to the any USA arts center beyond New York City the volume
and scope of
pirating compact
discs?
Granville raised an eyebrow. Does that mean youre in the market for
something? The Ring Cycle perhaps?
Very suspicious stuff, if you ask me.
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D)
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set
off to
play with the orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
If anyone on the list is interested in attending the audition (and is close
enough to make the trip worthwhile), please drop me a line privately and
I'll send you the appropriate phone number.
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie
other
glorious writing for horn. If you have access to The Horn Call in a local
library, a look at the February 1999 issue will give you more detail about
the father's influence on the son.
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D)
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Horn
his mother?
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Sinfonie Orchester Aachen (D)
Hi folks,
I am trying to find information for use in some program notes for the
Richard Strauss Andante. I think it was written for his parent's 50th
wedding anniversary, but that would make for some real short notes
here in Aachen (and
towards the end of this season two of their hornists/Wagner tubists are
coming to fill out our section for Bruckner's 8th in a performance that
marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Sinfonie Orchester
Aachen).
William Melton
Hauset (B) / Aachen (D
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