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[4] This concerto is one of Mozart's two horn concerti to have ripieno horns (horns included in the orchestra besides the soloist), though, in contrast to the Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417, the solo horn in this one duplicates the first ripieno horn's part in the tutti passages. [5]
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 .
Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412 (1791, unfinished at Mozart's death) Horn Concerto No. 2 in E ♭ major, K. 417 (1783) Horn Concerto No. 3 in E ♭ major, K. 447 (c. 1784–7) Horn Concerto No. 4 in E ♭ major, K. 495 (1786) There are some other unfinished Mozart works for horn and orchestra: Horn Concerto, K. 370b+371 in E ♭ major (1781)
Horn Concerto No. 2; Horn Concerto No. 3; Heinz Holliger. Cynddaredd – Brenddwyd (Fury – Dream) Robin Holloway. Horn Concerto, Op. 43; Andante and Variations, transcription of Schumann's op.46 for horn, 2 'celli and 2 pianos; Serenata Notturna op.52 for four horns and chamber orchestra; Trio op. 113 for horn, cello and piano; Alan Hovhaness
A number of concertos and concertante works have been written for cor anglais (English horn) and string, wind, chamber, or full orchestra.. English horn concertos appeared about a century later than oboe solo pieces, mostly because until halfway through the 18th century different instruments (the taille de hautbois, vox humana and the oboe da caccia) had the role of the tenor or alto ...
Mozart's four Horn Concertos, Concert Rondo and Morceau de Concert were written with this technique in mind, as was the music both Beethoven and Brahms wrote for the horn. Some modern composers have incorrectly notated that the horn is to bend an open pitch upward to a stopped pitch. [ 2 ]
C. P. E. Bach wrote five flute concertos and two oboe concertos. Mozart wrote five horn concertos, with two for flute, oboe (later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice. [19]
A Musical Joke (German: Ein musikalischer Spaß) K. 522, (divertimento for two horns in F, and string quartet) is a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; he entered it in his Verzeichnis aller meiner Werke (Catalogue of All My Works) on 14 June 1787.