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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.
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 ...
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. Occupation (s) Musician, TV presenter. Instrument. French horn. Website. sarah-willis.com. Sarah Elizabeth Peel Willis MBE (born 23 February 1968) [1] is an American-born British-American [2] French horn player. She is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, and is a presenter of TV and online programs about classical music.
The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. Traditionally the alphorn was made of one single piece, or two parts at most, of the wood of a red pine tree. Sometimes the trees would bend from the weight of snow in ...
The Prague Wind Quintet, c. 1931. 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 ...
Anton Teyber. Two Concertos for Corni da Caccia. Othon Vandenbroek [ fr ] 1st Symphonie concertante E-flat major for 2 horns solo and orchestra. Johann Christoph Vogel. Concertante No. 1 in E major for 2 Horns and Orchestra. Concertante No. 2 in E major for 2 Horns and Orchestra. Jacques Widerkehr.
Giovanni Punto. Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice – 16 February 1803 in Prague) was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes. [citation needed]