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| Name | Birth-Death | Active Dates | Biographical Information | Source |
| Ahl brothers (2) | c.1800 | virtuosi in the municipal theatre orch in Manheim | F, 213 | |
| Johan Anderson | hornist in Copenhagen Opera Orch | H, 69 | ||
| Franz Angerholtzer | c.1773 | violinist & third horn in the Vienna Hofcapelle 1773-4 | F, 203 | |
| Jean Désiré Artôt | 1803-1887 | professor of horn at the Conservatory of Brussels | H, 21 | |
| Bachman | c.1750 | 2nd horn at Sonderhausen; use of right hand tecnhique as early as 1750 | F, 207-8 | |
| Mathieu Gustave Baneux | 1825-1878 | cor basse player who died from tuberculosis, an illness brought on by the effort of trying to gain a full range according to Dauprat; won first prize in horn at the Conservatoire in 1840; first horn at the Opera Comique for several years | C2, 80, 151 | |
| Bernard Bär or Beer | c.1740-90 | hornist brother of the famous clarinet virtuoso | F, 197 | |
| Bauer | pre1788 | father & son who were both doublers on horn & clarino as late as 1788 | F, 207 | |
| Baumer brothers (2) | members of the King of Prussia's private band | F, 209 | ||
| Beda | c.1725 | a traveling virtuoso known for playing two horns at once | F, 99 | |
| Luigi Belloli | famous Italian hornist; teacher of Giovanni Puzzi; teacher at Milan Conservatory; one of earliest to adopt the cor mixte style | M-P, 172 | ||
| Edouard Alexis Bernard | 1806-1847 | c.1830 | received 2nd prize in horn at the Conservatoire in 1830 & 1st prize in 1831; member of Opera Comique & Opera orchestras | C2, 151 |
| Bernardon | d.1800 | Bohemian who doubled on clarino trumpet and first horn for Count Morizin at Prague | F, 201 | |
| Beterlein | 1780s-90s | principal horn at Rudolstadt in the 1780s and 90s | F, 209 | |
| Bliesener | c.1801 | hornist at the Prussian Court who published some horn compositions in Berlin in 1801 | F, 213 | |
| Anton & Ignaz Boeck | 1757-?; 1754-? | famous Viennese duettists; one of them said to have invented a chromatic mute | M-P, 171 | |
| Emil Borsdorf | son & student of Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf | M-P, 167 | ||
| Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf | c.1869-1923 | leading German-born English player & teacher; student of Lorenz & Oscar Franz; helped found the London Symphony Orchestra; prof at Royal College from 1882-1923 and prof at Royal Academy of Music from 1897-1923 | M-P, 166-7 | |
| Oscar Borsdorf | son & student of Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf | M-P, 167 | ||
| Bradacz | c.1750-c.1820 | c.1800 | Bohemian hornist; student of Matiegka; principal horn of Prince Schwarzenberg's orch in Vienna from 1800 | F, 201 |
| Francis Bradley | son & student of Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf | M-P, 167 | ||
| A.E. Brain | fourth horn in the famous LSO quartet; father to Alfred and Aubrey Brain | M-P, 168 | ||
| Alfred Brain | son of A.E. Brain; older brother to Alfred; principal horn in Sir Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orch for several years; moved to U.S. in 1923 to join the Damrosch orch | M-P, 169 | ||
| Aubrey Brain | 1893-1955 | pre1911-1955 | son of A.E. Brain; appointed principal horn in New Symphony Orch in 1911; toured U.S. with London Symphony Orch in 1912; became principal horn in B.B.C Symphony in 1928; Ethel Symth's concerto for horn and violin for him; succeeded Borsdorf as horn prof at Royal Academy of Music in 1923; father of Dennis Brain; teacher of Dennis Brain, Douglas Moore, John Burden & Alan Civil | M-P, 168-9 |
| Dennis Brain | 1921-1957 | son of Aubrey Brain; leading English valve horn virtuoso; premeired several important works, many dedicated to him; made many important recordings; tragic young death by car accident in 1957 | M-P, 169-72 | |
| Brandel | 1770s-80s | Simrock's second at Bonn in the 1770s & 80s | F, 210 | |
| Bremner | c.1756 | early German or Bohemian hornist in Paris; member of the Comedie Italienne orch in 1756 | F, 121 | |
| François Bremond | 1844-1925 | pre1870-c.1922 | student of Mohr at Paris Conservatoire; succeeded Mohr as prof @ Conservatoire in 1891; played with left hand in bell; tenor soloist | M-P, 165-6 |
| A. Buch | a member of the regular quartet of the Paris Opera Orch around 1800; one of first teachers at Paris Conservatoire | M-P, 103 | ||
| Cato | c. 1738 | negro hunting hornist of some fame; appointed gamekeeper by Prince of Wales | M-P, 76 | |
| Cermak brothers | c.1746 | players in band at Dresden | F, 101 | |
| Mr. Charles | c.1740 | active solo recitalist in Enland and Ireland | F, 103-6 | |
| Henri Chaussier | 1854-? | among the last of the hand-horn virtuosi; inventor of a four-valved omnitonic horn; Saint-Saens solo horn pieces written for him | M-P, 173, 63-6 | |
| Louis Colin | c.1814 | hornist in early performance of a Reicha wind quintet in 1814 | H, 17 | |
| Pierre Francois Collin | 1781-1832 | c.1797 | hornist in the Royal Chapel c.1806; awarded first prize in horn at the Conservatoire in 1803 | F, 59-60 |
| Johann Friedrich Creta | c.1728 | a traveling "one man duettist" known for playing two horns at once | F, 99 | |
| Czerwenka | 1790 | father and son hornists; members of the royal orchestra at Berlin around 1790 | F, 201 | |
| Friedrich Damnich | c.1728-1790 | 1746-1751 | player in Wallerstein orch | F, 122 |
| Louis-François Dauprat | 1781-1868 | c.1794-1842 | important virtuoso & primarily, a teacher; published important tutor: Mehode de Cor Alto et Cor Basse in 1824; replaced Kenn in the Paris Opera in 1808 & replaced Duvernoy as solo horn in 1817; honorary assistant prof. of horn at Paris Conservatoire from 1802-1816; appointed prof. in place of Duvernoy in 1816 until 1842 when succeeded by his pupil Gallay | M-P, 158-9 |
| Franz Anton Dimmler | 1756-1815 | c.1767 | fourth horn in the Manheimn orch from 1767 | F, 206 |
| Arnold Domnich | 1771-1834 | brother of Heinrich Domnich & distinguished horn player; first horn in Meiningen Kapelle | M-P, 156 | |
| Heinrich Domnich | 1767-1844? | c.1783-1817 | famous teacher; studied under Punto; much of his playing was in a duet or trio context; 2nd horn in Paris Opera; appointed horn prof @ Paris Conservatoire in 1795; published important tutor: Methode de Premiere et de Second Cor in 1808; teacher of E.C. Lewy & J.B. Mengal | M-P, 156 |
| Jacob Domnich | 1758-> | brother of Heinrich Domnich & distinguished horn player; last heard of in Philadelphia in 1896 | M-P, 156 | |
| Jacob Dorn | virtuoso; teacher of Henri Kling | M-P, 164 | ||
| Phillip & Peter Dornaus | 1769-? 1770-? | famous duettists | M-P, 172 | |
| Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy | 1765-1838 | c.1788-1817 | a self-taught musician; 2nd horn to Vandenbroek at Opera-Comique; appointed senior prof of horn at Paris Conservatoire in 1795, entered Paris Opera orch in 1796, becoming solo horn three years later; successful as a cor-mixte player; published Methode pour le Cor in 1803 | M-P, 155-6 |
| Georg Eck | c.1782 | 3rd horn in the Manheim theaer orch in 1782 | F, 206 | |
| Andreas Eder | c.1748 | player in service of Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein under Anton Reicha | F, 116 | |
| Hermann Eichborn | 1847-1918 | c.1899 | hornist & composer | E5, 32 |
| Jacob Eisen | 1756-96 | 1787-1796 | 2nd horn in Vienna Hofcapelle 1787-1796 | F, 205 |
| Edmond Entraigue | third horn in the Paris Opera at the end of the 19th century; played with right hand | H, 52 | ||
| Erhard | 1790s | Nurnberg virtuoso who attracted some notice in Paris in the 1790s | F, 213 | |
| Mr. Ernst | c. 1750 | performed as a one-man duettist at a Concert Spirituel in Paris | M-P, 85 | |
| Falta | c.1793 | Bohemian who took Simrock's place as principal horn in the Cologne orch in 1793 | F, 209 | |
| Anton Fiedler | Johann Zeddelmayer's second; Bach's Jadcantata horn parts written for them | F, 53 | ||
| Johann Adalbert Fischer | c.1711 | Bohemian hornist taken into service as a horn player in 1711 in Dresden; performed in Lully's La Princesse d'Elide in 1719 | J/B, 51 F, 96 | |
| Frank | Bohemian 2nd horn in St. Petersburg | F, 211 | ||
| Carl Franz | 1738-1802 |