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  2. List of compositions for horn - Wikipedia

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    "Jazz Set" horn solo; Character Pieces for Solo Horn; Abstraction, for solo horn and 8 horns; Jazz Soliloquies for horn "Laid Back" Laid back; Robin Holloway. Partita no.1 for solo horn op 61 no.1; Partita no.2 for solo horn op 61 no.2; Ivo Josipović. Prelude and Fuge for Horn; Viktor Kalabis. Invokation; Bernhard Krol Laudatio for Horn Solo ...

  3. French horn - Wikipedia

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    The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.

  4. Wind quintet - Wikipedia

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    A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon). Unlike the string quartet (of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and timbre.

  5. Vincent DeRosa - Wikipedia

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    The album's title song features famous, [24] difficult-to-execute French horn lines, with DeRosa as first chair. [25] Mancini often composed his themes with a favorite player in mind: "Sometimes when I hear people play, especially if they’re distinctive players, I actually try to incorporate their sound into a particular score." [26

  6. Horn Concertos (Mozart) - Wikipedia

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    The four Horn Concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were written for his friend Joseph Leutgeb, whom he had known since childhood. Leutgeb was a skilled player, and the works are difficult to perform on the natural horn of the period, requiring lip trills , much hand-stopping , and rapid tonguing .

  7. Brass quintet - Wikipedia

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    The United States Army Brass Quintet. A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments.The instrumentation for a brass quintet typically includes two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone or euphonium/baritone horn, and one tuba or bass trombone.The two instrumentations of the brass quintet that are currently in use are the quintet of two trumpets ...

  8. Louis François Dauprat - Wikipedia

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    Dauprat in 1800. Louis François Dauprat (24 May 1781 – 16 July 1868) was a French horn player, composer and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris.He played and taught natural horn only, but was also very interested in the first experiments with keyed horns.

  9. List of horn players - Wikipedia

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    Peter Damm, principal horn Dresden Staatskapelle 1969–2002. He is professor of horn at the Carl Maria von Weber music conservatoire. Vincent DeRosa, LA studio player; Richard Dunbar, was a player of the French horn, playing in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 29, 1944, and he died suddenly at the age of 61 ...