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The Vienna horn (German: Wiener Horn) is a type of musical horn used primarily in Vienna, Austria, for playing orchestral or classical music. It is used throughout Vienna, including the Vienna Philharmonic and Wiener Staatsoper .
This list of horn players and pedagogues includes notable players of French horn, German horn, natural horn, Vienna horn, tenor (alto) horn, and alphorn This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Concerto in E flat for two horns, strings and continuo – Tonkünstler Orchestra, Vienna directed by Dietfried Bernet. Hilde Langfort (continuo), Robert Freund (first horn), Hannes Sungler (second horn). Musical Heritage Society – MHS 641/642. Vinyl, LP 1966; CD Collection: "Gicksen Sie nicht…" 9 CDs, all recordings including Robert Freund.
The Vienna horn has remained virtually unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century—as a result it is arguably well-suited to the Classical and Romantic repertoire at the core of the VPO's programming. On the other hand, at least two instruments or instrument families are like those in other orchestras. According to the Vienna Philharmonic's ...
Although the expression "French horn" is still used colloquially in English for any orchestral horn (German, French, or Viennese), since the 1930s professional musicians and scholars have generally avoided this term in favour of just "horn". Vienna horns today are played only in Vienna, and are made only by Austrian firms.
Born in 1934 in Kinston, North Carolina and raised in The Bronx, [1] Northern studied at the Manhattan School of Music [2] and at the Vienna Academy in the 1950s. He was perhaps best known as a session musician, working extensively in the 1950s and 1960s with musicians such as Donald Byrd, John Coltrane, [1] Gil Evans, Sun Ra, [1] McCoy Tyner, [1] Roland Kirk, and the Jazz Composers Orchestra. [3]
Leutgeb was most likely Mozart's favorite horn player, as a number of the composer's works were written for him. These include the Horn Concertos K. 417, K. 495 and K. 412/386b (514) and "probably" [4] the Horn Quintet K. 407/386c. These date from Mozart's years in Vienna after his move there in 1781.
A musician who plays the French horn, like the players of the German and Vienna horns (confusingly also sometimes called French horns), is called a horn player (or less frequently, a hornist). Three valves control the flow of air in the single horn , which is tuned to F or less commonly B ♭ .