![]() Mozart composed four horn concertos for Leutgeb, and one of them came with an annotation on the score calling the soloist an ‘ass’, a ‘simpleton’, and an ‘ox’. Well, not if your name was Joseph Leutgeb and the composer you commissioned was Mozart. If you were a horn player and you commissioned a composer to write you a concerto, presumably you’d feel entitled to a little respect. Here are eight musical moments where audiences swoon at the glorious sound, while the horn players themselves hope that the instrument will be behaving itself on the day. Unless you’re a legend like Dennis Brain, Barry Tuckwell, or Hermann Baumann, the french horn can be perilously difficult to play. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers.īut don’t let its grandeur, nobility, and sheer beauty fool you. (we are now totally off topic but you HAVE to watch Ohio state's unbelievable zelda segment from their 2012 show, there are horns I promise! (5:40 - 7:00).The French horn. Oh! I thought of something else! Have you ever gotten into drum corps music? it's literally 50% percussion, 50% brass! Plus you get amazing visuals. Is Pines of Rome too obvious? Excellent that you already got Scriabin's Ecstasy, one of my favorites.įor something totally offbeat you have Ive's unanswered question which technically features a trumpet (that sounds vaguely like the beginning of your Wagner). The third movement esp might as well be a flute part for how frantic it is.įor concert band you have fun stuff like Samuel Hazo's Exultate (2:31) which has a gorgeous brass-feature ending, and they're on top for most of the piece. Concertos like Peskin no 1 for Trumpet show off these instruments in different ways than the orchestral ones, demonstrating that brass isn't just about fanfare and power chords, they can be nimble and chromatic as well. Not quite your request, but if you like horns don't sleep on concertos and wind ensemble/concert band music.
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