Horn

James Thatcher, the horn of Hollywood

By Jeremy Mathez, Robert L. Watt

Georges Barboteu

An inspired and poetic hornist

By André Cazalet

The Hunting horn of Jacques Du Fouilloux (XVIth cent.)

By Werner Flachs, Rainer Egger

The hunting horn

Long-held beliefs about the French hunting horn are challenged as forgotten playing practices and Baroque traditions reshape its early history and repertoire.

By Jacques Poncet

Jazz and the Horn Series • Part 3

Jazz and the Horn

Getting started

For the classically trained horn player, jazz replaces the security of the printed page with listening, swing and improvisation—and a different kind of discipline.

By Jeffrey Agrell

André Van Driessche

Belgian master of the Horn

By Luc Bergé, Rik Vercruysse, Claudine Novikov

Part 5

Instrument Makers in USA

S. W. Lewis Orchestral Horns

For Steven Lewis, building a horn begins with playing it: craftsmanship, acoustic compromise and observation shape instruments made for musicians rather than theory.

By Stephan Suter

Markneukirchen 1996

31st annual international instrumental competition • Horn • Tuba

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Guebwiller 2001 - Philip Jones International Competition - horn and brass ensembles

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Classical, baroque horn or corno da tirarsi?

By Javier Bonet Manrique

Leipziger Horn Quartet (1951-2001)

By Jörg Klemens

Horn models in high E flat

By Engelberg Schmid

Brno International Performer’s Competition - Horn

By Lucie Hofmanova

Round the Horn

Hamburg 1982

A 1982 Hamburg exhibition brought 150 horns out of collections and into players’ hands, collapsing centuries of hunting, signalling and concert traditions into one room.

By Michael Höltzel

Part 2

Bach and the Others:

Eighteenth-Century Trumpeter-Hornists

Beyond Leipzig, the practice extended from Weissenfels to Dresden and Vienna, as horn and trumpet gradually diverged into distinct musical identities.

By Edward H. Tarr

The horn in China

By Thomas Crome

The French Hunting horn, its history, its technique and its music

Centuries-old hunting signals still shape performance today, where technique, ritual and oral tradition preserved a musical language unlike any other brass practice.

By Daniel Bourgue

Heinrich Domnich (1767-1844)

By Robert Ricks

Horn and Harp

Virtuoso showpieces once filled concert halls, yet today the rare pairing of horn and harp preserves a forgotten musical world shaped by performers themselves.

By Ch. Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht

Part 1

The horn in Madrid in the 18th century

Exclusive revelations in the natural horn in Spain (Valencia & Madrid)

By Javier Bonet Manrique

The Vienna horn and the Vienna sound

Special Austria

By Armin Suppan

Meir Rimon

Portrait and conversation

Orchestral discipline, solo freedom and an endless appetite for learning shaped Meir Rimon’s horn playing across Israeli, European and American traditions.

By Jeffrey Agrell

Angelo Galletti, Hornist and collector

Of curious mind and cusrious character, this man of 84 years has never stopped examining and critiquing the world. A remarkable story about a amn and his love/hate relationship with his twin passions

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Interview with Thomas Müller

The natural horn is not a retreat into the past: Thomas Müller argues that its demands on sound, technique and awareness can broaden a modern player’s craft.

By Jeffrey Agrell