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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.
Walter Horton (April 6, 1921 [2] – December 8, 1981), known as Big Walter (Horton) or Walter "Shakey" Horton, was an American blues harmonica player. A quiet, unassuming, shy man, he is remembered as one of the premier harmonica players in the history of blues. [3] Willie Dixon once called Horton 'the best harmonica player I ever heard'. [3]
Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments.He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.
From 1980 to 2017, Myers was the principal horn of the New York Philharmonic and frequently appeared as soloist with the orchestra. [1] Before arriving at the New York Philharmonic, he was principal horn of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1971 to 1974, third horn of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1974 to 1977, and principal horn of the Minnesota Orchestra ...
Before the advent of the valve horn, a player would increase the number of playable notes beyond the normal harmonic series by changing the position of his/her hand in the bell. It is possible to use a combination of stopping, hand-muting (3/4 stopping), and half-stopping (to correct notes that would otherwise be out of tune) to play almost ...
Thomas Morgan Edwards (December 4, 1932 – June 23, 2022) [1] was an American harmonicist and session musician, who had been active since the 1950s. [2] He was considered one of the most heard harmonica players in the world, playing in over 500 feature films.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l ɛ s p i / gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. [2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge [3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer's works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961.