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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.
The Vienna horn is, in essence, the natural horn of the Viennese classical era with double piston valves added by the instrument maker Leopold Uhlmann (1806–1878). The trumpet, instead of having the almost universal Perinet piston valves , is the old German model with rotary valves , [ 7 ] while the F tuba is its own instrument type.
The French horn (as distinct from the German and Vienna horns), is also usually referred to simply as the "horn" by orchestral players. The bore of the French horn is small, between 10.8 and 11 mm, compared to 11.5 mm for the German horn, but not as small as the Vienna horn at 10.7 mm.
The composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf stated that Leutgeb performed in Vienna in the early 1750s for Prince Hildburghausen. During the early 1760s, Leutgeb's career flourished; according to Daniel Heartz, he "was the most prominent horn soloist in Vienna, and evidently one of the best received players on any solo instrument.".
German horns have lever-operated rotary valves, The term French horn was another name for this same horn, and the Vienna horn which uses double-piston valves, or pumpenvalves. A horn without valves is known as a natural horn , changing pitch along the natural harmonics of the instrument.
French Horn Method for Young Beginners in 3 volumes, in German and English (Doblinger): Robert Freund: French Horn Method for the Young Beginner vol. 1. First edited in 1977, Doblinger. New edition, Vienna, Munich 2002, 56 pages, Catalogue No: DOB695, ISMN 9990050053570 [7] Robert Freund: French Horn Method for Young Beginner vol. 2.
1 basset horn 1 bass clarinet 1 contrabass clarinet 3–4 bassoons 1 contrabassoon Brass 4–8 French horns, German horns, or Vienna horns (more rarely natural horns) of which some might play 2–4 Wagner tubas – 2 tenors, 2 bass 3–6 trumpets in F, and other keys including C, B ♭ of which some might play 1 bass trumpet 3–4 cornets