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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 | c.1763 | virtuoso who joined the Esterhazy orc in 1763; early exponent of hand technique; music of Haydn and Danzi written for him | H, 13 F, 196-7 |
| Christoph Fritsch | c.1730-1747 | hornist in the service of Count Phillip Karl of Oettingen-Wallerstein c. 1730-1747 | F, 109 | |
| Joseph Fritsch | son of Christoph; second horn to Thurrschmidt at Wallerstein | F, 108 | ||
| Benedikt Fuchs | deputy first horn to Michael Herbst at the Theater an der Wien | F, 215 | ||
| Jacques-François Gallay | 1795-1864 | c.1820-1864 | virtuoso student of Dauprat; known for authorship of several important books of horn studies; prof @ Paris Conservatoire | M-P, 162 |
| Henry Jean Garigue | 1842-? | c.1860 | wrote a comprehensive tutor for horn in 1888 | C2, 131 |
| Johann Michael Gehring | 1755-1833 | c.1780 | hornist & singer; member of Italien Opera orch; member of orch of Prince Graschalkowitsch from 1780; toured Germany & Switzerland in 1785 | F, 205 |
| Glass | c.1865 | performer for first performace of Brahms Trio in 1865 | H, 100 | |
| Franz Joseph Glöckner | 1734-c.1800 | Bohemian hornist who brought the Austrian style of playing to Poland | F, 195 | |
| Jonas Green | 1712- | c.1752 | newspaper editor and hornist from Anapolis, Maryland who performed as a soloist in 1752 | S2, 151 |
| Joseph & Heinrich Gugel | 1770-? 1780-? | brothers considered the finest duettists from Germany from 1802-1816 | M-P, 172 | |
| Friedrich Adolf Gumbert | 1841-1906 | pre1864-1898 | first horn of the Leipzig Theatre & the Gewandhaus concerts; horn prof @ Leipzig Conservatory; published books of orchestral and operatic horn excerpts; teacher of Anton Horner & Franz Paersch | M-P, 164 |
| August Haase | 1792-c.1850 | appointed principal horn at Dresden in 1813; set out on a highly successful duettist tour with his brother in 1823 | F, 216 | |
| Ludwig Haase | 1799-c.1860 | set out on a highly successful duettist tour with his brother in 1823 | F, 216 | |
| Haberzettel | pre1798 | principal horn in the Emperor's band at St. Petersburg | F, 211 | |
| Joseph Haboteus | c.1797 | principal horn & chef to Count Kinsky at Prague | F, 210 | |
| Franz Haensel | 1770s | second horn in the Viennese Court orch in the 1770s | F, 198 | |
| Jules Halary | c.1845 | hornist in the Paris Opera orchestra; important horn craffsman; student of Meifred; invented ascending valve system around 1847 | M-P, 61 | |
| Ignaz, Johann & Joseph Hammer | c.1788 | father & sons who served in the Emperor of Russia's private band at St. Petersburg from c.1788-1791 | F, 207 | |
| Anton Joseph Hampel (Hampl) | c.1710-71 | c.1737-1771 | joined Dresden court orch in 1737 as 2nd horn and retained this position until his death; taught Punto; known for inventing hand stopping technique; designed the Inventionshorn; wrote a tutor, revised and published by Punto; invented the non-transposing mute | M-P, 149 F, 109 |
| Hanisch | hornist in Prague who left in 1784 to seek his fortune in Germany | F, 207 | ||
| Karl Haudek | 1721-post1800 | c.1740s-1780s | Bohemian virtuoso; famous player & teacher; first horn at Dresden with Hampl as second; | M-P, 150; F, 115-6 |
| Hauser | 1790s | Swabian who toured Italy in the 1790s as Polack's second | F, 209 | |
| Wenzel Heller | c.1793 | hornist & scholar; played in St. Petersbug before returning to Praue in 1793; joined orch of the Prince Bishop at Passau in 1796 | F, 210 | |
| Michael Herbst | 1778-1833 | c.1806 | teacher and virtuoso of the orchestral hand horn; probably took part in the first performance of Beethoven's Fidelio; appointed professor at the Vienna Conservatory in 1812 | F, 215 |
| Anton Herold | c,1795 | 2nd horn in a traveling band of Bohemian virtuosi that had great success in Vienna | F, 210 | |
| Johann Georg Herr | c.1784 | student of Korber; successful soloist in Germany & France | F, 207 | |
| Johann Georg Hildebrand | c.1717 | joined Reichel at Wofenbuttel in 1717 | F, 95 | |
| Hoffmann | c.1711 | a regular member of the electoral orchestra at Dusseldorf by 1711 | F, 95 | |
| Friedrich Homilius | c.1862 | first horn at St Petersburg's Imperial Theatre; teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire | H, 25 | |
| Johannes Hörmann/Hermann | 1748-1816 | c.1796 | one of the most prominent orchestral hand-horn players of the later Classical period in Vienna; probably took part in the first performance of Beethoven's Fidelio; 2nd horn in Vienna Hofcapelle from 1796 | F, 200 |
| Anton Horner | pre 1894-1940 | left Leipzig Conservatory in 1894 for a distinguished career as a player and teacher in the U.S. introduced the double horn in F & B-flat to America | M-P, 122 | |
| Joseph Ignaz Horzizky | c.1754 | principal horn in the royal band at Berlin under Karl Heinrich Graun | F, 124 | |
| Horzeggssi | c.1786 | principal horn in Count Kinsky's regimental band at Prague in 1786 | F, 207 | |
| Thomas & Georg Hosa | c.1715-86 c.1718-87 | Bohemian hornists and brothers in the service of Prince Charles of Lorraine in the orch of the Electoral opera at Brussels; credited with bringing the Austrian style of playing to the Netherlands; probably the teacher of Othon Vandenbroek | F, 114 | |
| Hrdliczka brothers (4) | c.1779 | left Bohemia in 1779 for St. Petersburg where they played in the private band of Prince Potemkin | F, 206 | |
| Hubacek | famous Bohemian hornist at Vienna | F, 206 | ||
| Friederich Hradetzky | 1772-1846 | c.1816 | Viennese virtuoso | F, 213 |
| Johann Sigismund Hutzler | 1772-1808 | principal horn at Cassel in 1807 | F, 213 | |
| Francois Jacqmin | 1793-1847 | c.1814 | student of Dauprat at Paris Conservatoire; received 1st prize in horn in 1818; member of Opera-Comique orchestra for 25 years; composer | C2, 152 |
| Bruno Jaenicke | 1887-1946 | c.1927 | longtime principal horn of the New York Philharmonic | E5, 32 |
| Johann Janatka | 1800-post1832 | one of the last major players of the Austro-Bohemian school to receive his training on the hand horn; hornist in Imperial Opera orch in Vienna in 1822; principal horn at the Theater an der Wien in 1828; in 1832 became professor at the Prague Conservatory and principal horn at the Standestheater | F, 216 | |
| Jaresch | c.1720s | extra hornist at Wolfenbuttel around the 1720s | F, 95 | |
| Henry Jarrett | ?-1886 | leading soloist in London after Puzzi's retirement; first horn and orchestral manager for Jullien's Promenade Concerts | M-P, 172 | |
| Jesser | c.1784 | owned a fine restaurant in Prague where he played horn for his guests | F, 206 | |
| Joseph Josep(h) | c.1754 | hornist in Count Phlipp Carl's hunting-band at Wallerstein in 1754; later became principal horn in the Electoral orch at Trier | F, 124 | |
| Joseph Kail | c.1826 | a noteworthy early valve hornist from Prague; became first horn in Prague National Theater in 1826; invented an echo device; professor of valve horn at Prague Conservatory | M-P, 105 | |
| Edward Kellner | c.1774 | student of Punto in England | F, 197 | |
| Jean-Joseph Kenn | 1757-? | c.1783-1808 | noted cor basse player; prof at Paris Conservatoire; teacher of Dauprat | M-P, 171 |
| Johann Khünel | hornist & chaplin at Böhmisch Kamnitz | F, 207 | ||
| Kirchstätter | c.1775 | Court-ball hornist at the Vienna Hofcapelle from 1775 | F, 203 | |
| Henri-Adrien-Louis Kling | 1842-1918 | pre1861-1918 | student of Jacob Dorn; became solo horn at Grand Theatre and the Concerts Classiques in 1861; appointed professor of horn and solfege at Geneva Conservatory in 1866; prolific composer & writer | M-P, 164-5 |
| Franz Kohaut | c.1819 | hornist who experimented with keys and holes in the pursuit of a chromatic instrument; successfully appeared in St. Petersburg & Moscow as a soloist | F, 215 | |
| Koller | famous 18th century hornist in Prague | F, 210 | ||
| Georg Kopprasch | c.1800-post1833 | hornist in band of Prussian regiment & member of the orch of the Royal Theater in Berlin in the 1820s; by 1832, he was 2nd horn in the court orch in Dessau; composer, best known for his 60 Etudes for horn | E6, 17 | |
| Ignaz Körber | 1744-? | 1780s | born in Mainz; went to Paris in the 1780s; chamber musician to the Court of Gotha; set up a music shop; composer | F, 198 |
| Knetchel brothers | c.1764 | hornist brothers who played in the Strahow monastery orch at Prague until 1764 when they left on a concert tour | F, 197 | |
| Johann Knetchel | c. 1734 | joined Dresden court orch in 1734, replacing Johann Schindler | H, 9 | |
| Johannes Knoblauch | c.1763 | hornist for Esterhazy orch | H, 13 | |
| Kohl | c.1763 | regular member of the Imperial court opera orch at Vienna 1763-1779; published 6 quartets for horn & strings in 1784 | F, 197 | |
| Kölbel | c.1700-8 - ? | c.1730 | inventor of the Amor-schall; second horn virtuoso at the Imperial Court at St. Petersburg in 1730 and also played for a time in Vienna | F, 107-8 |
| Kraus | c,.1763 | regular member of the Imperial court opera orch at Vienna 1763-1779 | F, 197 | |
| Jacob Kuczera | 1749-1813 | 2nd horn in Archbishop's orch in Salzburg, presumably replacing Leutgeb around 1770 | F, 201 | |
| Gottfried Kunisch | 1764-post1808 | principal horn at the Brunswick Court in 1808 | F, 209 | |
| Kunte | hornist in band of Count Burquois at Prague; composer of many horn concerti | F, 207 | ||
| Emile Lambert | solo horn with the Lamoreux Orch in Paris | H, 73 | ||
| Emile Lamouret | first horn in the Paris Opera at the end of the 19th century; played with right hand | H, 52 | ||
| Johann W. Lampe | appointed horn player in the Stuttgart Hofkapelle in 1715 | J/B, 52 | ||
| Franz Lang | c.1782 | 2nd horn in the Manheim theater orch in 1782 | F, 206 | |
| Jean Lebrun | 1759-1809 | famous French cor alto virtuoso; played 1st with Turrschmidt after Palsa's death | M-P, 171 | |
| Hans Leopold | 1720s | hornist in the service of Duke Heinrich of Saxe-Halle at Barby in the 1720s; may have taken part in the first performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 | F, 98 | |
| Ignaz Leitgeb (Leutgeb) | c.1745-1811 | pre1770-1800s | fist horn in band of prince archbishop of Salzburg; traveling soloist; known for friendship with Mozart leading to horn concerti; settled in Vienna in 1777 where he was active as both hornist and cheesemonger | M-P, 153-4 |
| Eduard-Constantin Lewy | 1796-1846 | early valve horn virtuoso; student of Domnich; became principal horn of Imperial Opera Orch in Vienna in 1822; appointed prof at Vienna Conservatory in 1834; became first horn in Vienna Court Orc in 1835 | M-P, 163 | |
| Joseph-Rudolph Lewy | 1804-1881 | early valve horn virtuoso; studied with his older brother E.C. Lewy; joined E.C. in the Imperial Opera in Vienna in 1822; became first horn of Royal Kapelle in Dresden in 1837, later under Wagner; Schubert's Auf dem Strom written for him | M-P, 163 | |
| Richard Lewy | 1827-1883 | c.1838 | son of E.C. Lewy; appeared as a soloist with both the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in 1838; prominent performer in Vienna | E2, 32 |
| Adolf Lindner | c.1854 | first horn at Leipzig's Gewandhaus from 1854 | H, 21 | |
| Josef Lindner | c.1898 | prof of horn in Würzburg; principal horn in Meiningen; advocate of the B-flat horn | E5, 31 | |
| Lissner | horn and clarino player in the orch of the National-theater at Prague | F, 211 | ||
| Willibald Lotter/Lother | 1762-1844 | alternate first horn in the Vienna Hofcapelle in 1808 | F, 209 | |
| Mackoweczky | c.1750-post1806 | c.1783 | Bohemian traveling virtuoso; pupil of Punto in Paris; 2nd horn in Esterhazy band from 1783; appointment at Prussian Court in 1786 | F, 202 |
| Jakob Maresch | 1709-post1770 | hornist at the royal Court at St. Petersburg in Russia; inventor of early attempt at a chromatic horn; instrumental in codification of Russian horn music | F, 101 | |
| Jan Antonin Mares | 1719-1794 | c.1748 | a student of Hampel in Dresden; became a member of the Imperial Hofkapelle in St. Petersburg in 1748; formed Russian horn ensemble | J/B, 61 |
| Martin Margraff | c.1721 | joined Reichel and Hildebrand at Wofenbuttel in 1721 | F, 95 | |
| Joseph Matiegka | 1728-1804 | famous teacher and virtuoso in Prague; taught Hampel and Punto | M-P, 149 | |
| Joseph Matiegka, Jr. | 1767-93 | son and student of Joseph Sr. | F, 211 | |
| Johann Matuška | c.1725-post1800 | fourth horn in the Manheim orch in 1756 | F, 121 | |
| Johann May | appointed horn in Esterhazy orch in 1765 | H, 13 | ||
| Pierre-Joseph-Emile Meifred | 1791-1867 | important figure in the improvement and acceptance of the valve horn; entered Dauprat's horn class at Paris Conservatoire in 1815; studied composition with Reicha; member of Paris Opera from 1821-1850; introduced valved horn to Paris audience in 1828; professor of valve horn class at Paris Conservatoire instituted in 1833 until his retirement in 1864; published an important valve horn tutor in 1841: Methode pour le Cor Chromatique our a Pistons | M-P, 159-60 | |
| Jean-Baptiste Mengal | 1796-1878 | c.1820-c.1859 | student of Domnich; became solo horn at Paris Opera-Comique in 1820; succeeded Dauprat as principal of Paris Opera in 1831; published a Methode de Cor and some music for horn | M-P, 162-3 |
| Martin Joseph Mengal | 1784-1851 | student of Duvernoy; received 1st prize in horn from the Conservatoire in 1809; played in Theatre Feydeau orch for 13 years; named director of the Conservatoire of Ghent in 1835 | C2, 155 | |
| Frederick Messing | 1740-1763 | active virtuoso and orchestral player in England from 1740-1763; violinist; took part in the Three Choirs Festival at Worchester in 1755 | M-P, 86; F, 103 | |
| Joseph Michel | c.1720-90 | first horn & clarinist in the orch of the Strahow Monastery in Prague | F, 119 | |
| Midlarz | c.1730-post1800 | second horn in the Stuttgart Orch 1754-99 | F, 124 | |
| Georg Miksch | 1767-1813 | c.1796 | Haudek's successor in the Dresden Court Orch in 1796 | F, 212 |
| Jean Mohr | student of Gallay; published a tutor in 1871; succeeded Gallay as prof at Conservatoire | M-P, 101 | ||
| Moller | c.1774 | student of Punto in England | F, 197 | |
| Joseph Nagel | c.1750-1802 | c.1780 | engaged as principal horn at Wallerstein around 1780; many of Rosetti's double horn concerti for him along with Zwierzina | F, 201-2 |
| Niemeczek | former tailor who studied horn with Matiegka | F, 124 | ||
| Johann Nisle | 1737-88 | principal horn at Wallerstein from 1750 to c.1780 | F, 213 | |
| Christian David & Johann Friederich Nisle | 1774-? 1778-? | sons of Johann; duettists; Johann Jr. an accomplished composer as well as hornist | F, 214 | |
| Johann Ondratscheck | c.1685-1743 | c.1717 | appointed first horn to the Electoral orch at Mainz in 1717 | F, 98 |
| Friedrich Otto | 1686-1718 | 1712-1718 | Rossi's second in the Vienna Hofkapelle from 1712-1718 | F, 97 |
| Antoine Pacquis | 1812-? | c.1862 | student of Dauprat; active as player in England; English agent for Rauox; member of Halle orchestra | H, 23 |
| Franz Friedrich Paersch | 1857-1921 | c.1872-c.1915 | often played 1st horn with Borsdorf as 2nd in England; principal horn of Halle Orch from 1883-1915; principal horn of Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) from 1883-1914; prof at Manchester Royal College of Music | M-P, 167-8 |
| Otto Paersch | pre1953 | son of Franz Paersch; third horn in B.B.C. Northern Orch | M-P, 168 | |
| Johann Palsa | 1752-1792 | c. 1786 | Bohemian high horn player; famous duettist with Turrschmidt | F, 176 |
| Pangratz | c,1711 | a regular member of the electoral orchestra at Dusseldorf by 1711 | F, 95 | |
| Patatschny | 1770s | fourth horn at Vienna in the 1770s | F, 203 | |
| Victor Pelissier | c.1740-c.1720 | c.1792-1813 | European hornist who established himself as a well-known performer in U.S. | S2, 158 |
| Joseph & Peter Petrides | 1755-? 1766-? | 1802-24 | Bohemain hornists who settled in and were leading players in London from 1802 to 1824 | M-P, 171 |
| Pini | c.1822 | dilettante at Parma who in 1822 equipped his horn with 8 keys which enabled him to play a chromatic scale | F, 215 | |
| Primarius Pohle | c.1850 | player of 1st part for first performance of Schumann's Concertstuck in 1850 | J/B, 93 | |
| Beate Pokorny | c.1760-? | c.1779 | first recorded leading female hornist; performed a concerto by Punto in December 1779 at a Paris Concert Spirituel | M-P, 172 |
| Polack | 1790s | hornist in Esterhazy orch under Haydn in 1790s | F, 208 | |
| Portmann | important teacher and writer or a horn tutor of an unknown location | F, 209 | ||
| Leopold Prameyer | c.1726 | a cornettist who doubled on horn in the Hofkapelle in Vienna around 1726 | F, 100 | |
| Giovanni Punto (Johann Wenzel Stich) | 1748-1803 | Bohemian serf who left his master's service to become a travelling virtuoso; Beethoven's Sonata written for and premiered by him in 1800; had an enormous influence of the development of horn technique | M-P, 152-3 | |
| Giovanni Puzzi | 1792-1876 | c.1815-c.1850 | great virtuoso; student of Luigi Belloli; spent most of life in England, under the patronage of duke of Wellington | M-P, 160-1 |
| Bernard Raab | c.1763 | tutti horn player at Wallerstein | F, 197 | |
| Marcel-Auguste Raoux | one-time principal horn at the Theatre Royal Italien in Paris; important horn craftsman | M-P, 61 | ||
| Georg Laurentz Reichel | c.1710-1731 | hornist & cellist in Duke Anton Ulrich's band & the court orchestra at Wolfenbuttel c.1710 | F, 94-5 | |
| Joseph Reichel | c.1750-1820 | c. 1788 | helped spread Bohemian style to Italy; appointed principal horn to the Imperial ambassador's band at Genoa in Prague | F, 202 |
| Samuel Reichelt | 1754-post1796 | c.1770 | principal horn and orchestra leader of the orchestra at the Church of St. Augustine in Kallais, Poland from 1770 | F, 202 |
| Franz Reiner | c.1764 | joined the Esterhazy orch in 1764 | H, 13 | |
| Carl Reinert | 1730-post1790 | c.1757 | joined the band of the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen in 1757; later principal horn to the Duke of Mecklenburg at Schwerin | F, 124 |
| Hans Richter | c. 1862 | conductor & hornist; student of E.C. Lewy's son Richard at the Vienna Conservatory; player at the Karntnertor Theater from 1862-6; notable performance of the Brahms Trio in 1867 | H, 101 | |
| Jean-Joseph Rodolphe | 1730-1812 | one of the first hand horn virtuosos; studied horn and violin from early age; entered service of duke of Parma in 1754; an early exponent of hand horn technique: introduced the technique to a Paris audience in 1765; entered service of Duke Karl von Wurttemburg at Stuttgart in 1760; joined band of Louis Francois de Bourbon, prince of Contil in 1763; joined orch of Paris opera in 1765 as violinist and occasional hornist; later joined Royal Chapel; helped found Ecole Royale de Chant; composer and teacher of composition and solfege at Conservatoire | M-P, 150-2 | |
| Peter Röllig | c.1650-1723 | bandsman of count von Spork, learned to play the horn at Versailles around 1680-1 | M-P, 149 F, 92 | |
| Wenzel Rossi | c.1685-1740 | principal horn in the Imperial Court Orchestra in Vienna from 1712-1740 under Fux | F, 96 | |
| Joseph Francois Rousselot | 1803-1880 | c.1822 | student of Dauprat; won second prize in the horn examination of 1822; played in the Opera orch & the Chapelle Royale | C2, 150-1 |
| Johann Anton Rudolph/Rudolff | 1742-c.1810 | principal horn with the Thurn & Taxis orchestra at Regensburg from 1780 | F, 198 | |
| Martin Rupp | 1748-1819 | 1782-1806 | first horn in the Vienna Hofcapelle from 1782 to 1806 | F, 201 |
| Franz Adam Samm | 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 | |
| Schade | c.1757 | third horn in the orch at Stuttgart in 1757 | F, 115 | |
| Paul Schebka | 1737-post 1813 | leading 2nd horn virtuoso in Prague; professor of horn at the Prague Conservatory | F, 196 | |
| Johann Schindelárž | c.1715-? | principal horn in Manheim orch under J. Stamitz; teacher of Haudek and Punto | M-P, 150; F, 112 | |
| Andreas Schindler | c.1720-c.1745 | Bohemian hornist in the Dresden Court Orch from c.1720 to c.1745 | F, 100 | |
| Johann Adam Schindler | c.1720-c.1745 | Bohemian hornist in the Dresden Court Orch from c.1720 to c.1745; Bach's Quoniam in the B minor mass was probably written for him | F, 101 | |
| Schmidt | c.1756 | an orchetral player in the Comedie Italienne at Paris in 1756, probably of Bohemian origin | F, 114 | |
| Schön | c.1782 | chamber musician to the King of France who took a post as first horn to the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1782 | F, 206 | |
| Joseph Schubert | c.1796 | principal horn at the Marinelli Theatre in Vienna in 1796 | F, 210 | |
| Gottfried, Andreas, Michael, Christoph & Gotthilf Schuncke | 1777-1860 1778-1849 1780-1821 1796-? 1799-? | five brothers, all leading horn players | M-P, 172; F, 214-5 | |
| Schwarz | c.1790 | principal horn to the Prince Bishop of Passau in 1790 | F, 209 | |
| Andreas Seebach | 1777-? | c.1796 | principal horn in the theater at Madgeburg in 1796; later was a Court virtuoso at Gotha | F, 214 |
| Wenzel Franz Seydler | 1720s | hornist in the service of Duke Heinrich of Saxe-Halle at Barby in the 1720s; may have taken part in the first performance of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 | F, 98 | |
| Johann Georg Sieber | 1734-1815 | Bohemian hornist and successful founder of a music publishing house in Paris | F, 195 | |
| Sigisser | c.1865 | first horn in the Karlsruhe opera; played in second performance of Brahms Trio in 1865 | H, 101 | |
| Nikolaus Simrock | Beethoven's publisher in Bonn, but also a childhood friend and hornist who influnced Beethoven's horn writing | H, 89 | ||
| Anton Skizuwanek | alternate third horn in the Vienna Hofkapelle from 1775 to 1799 | F, 203 | ||
| Hermoläus Smeykal | c.1685-1758 | first major teacher of the horn; played in the orch of St. Wenceslas' Jesuit Seminary in Prague for several years; teacher of Joseph Matiegka | F, 97 | |
| Spandau | c.1750-? | famous virtuoso in band of the Stadholder of the United Provinces at The Hague; visited London as a soloist in 1773; hand stopping pioneer | M-P, 171 | |
| Sporni | principal horn in the orch at Stuttgart in 1757 | F, 115 | ||
| Michael Stadlmann | c.1773 | sixth horn in the Vienna Court orch in 1773 | F, 203 | |
| Franz Stainmentz | c.1750 | one of the first to gain employment as an orchestral hornist in Paris; second horn in the Paris Opera Orch c. 1750; second horn in the Opera Comique in 1754 | F, 118 | |
| Franz Stamitz/Staimetz | hornist in Imperial Court orch 1773-75; may be same person asParisian hornist of same name | F, 198 | ||
| Franz Stamitz | c.1765 | appointed horn in Esterhazy orch in 1765 | H, 13 | |
| Statz | c.1720s | extra hornist at Wolfenbuttel around the 1720s | F, 95 | |
| Steiner | c.1803 | freelance hornist in Vienna | F, 212 | |
| Johann, Josef &, Wilhelm Steinmüller | 1790s | virtuoso horn playing sons of Thaddäuss; duettists & triple-concerto soloists at Hamburg and the principal German towns | F, 202 | |
| Thaddäus Steinmüller | c.1725-90 | principal horn in Esterhazy orch under Haydn for many years; known for command of high register; Haydn's Horn Concerto, 1st part in Symphony No. 31 & Divertimento for violin, horn & cello probably written for him | M-P, 150 | |
| Karl Stiegler | 1876-1932 | famous Viennese horn player and teacher; appointed solo horn at Veinna State Opera in 1899 & prof at Vienna Conservatory in 1917 | M-P, 173 | |
| Heinrich Stöezel | 1777-1844 | best known for invention & patent of the valve; member of the Royal Opera Orch in Berlin in 1817-1829 | M-P, 159 | |
| Mr. Stotherd | c.1770 | a traveling soloist from Dublin who performed in Charleston, South Carolina around 1770 | S2, 156 | |
| Franz Strauss | 1822-1905 | important player and teacher; joined Bavarian court orch in 1847; father to composer Richard Strauss; composer | J/B, 101 | |
| Johann Adam Ströhl | 1703-post1750 | blind hornist of some reputation attached to the court orch at Gera | F, 100 | |
| Wenzel Sweda | c.1638-c.1710 | bandsman of count von Spork, learned to play the horn at Versailles around 1680-1681, founder of the Bohemian school of horn playing | M-P, 149 F, 91 | |
| Syryyneck (Širineck) | c.1750 | pincipal horn in the Paris Opera orch around 1750; one of the first Bohemian players to travel to Paris | F, 113 | |
| Anton Thürrschmidt | younger brother of Johannes and a hornist in the service of Prince Albrecht von Teschen | F, 121 | ||
| Carl Türrschmidt/ Thürrschmidt | 1753-97 | studied horn with his father, Johann Türrschmidt; duettist with Johann Palsa; redesigned the Inventionshorn with Rauox into the instrument that became the cor-solo; inventor of a mute with a stopping mechanism for production of a chromatic scale | M-P, 154-5; F, 174-5 | |
| Johannes Türrschmidt | 1725-1800 | Bohemian horn virtuoso; first horn in Wallerstein orch in 1752; horn parts in Haydn symphonies 46-8 probably written for him; some high-horn concerti by Rosetti written for him; father & teacher to Carl & Joseph | F, 119-20 | |
| Trobner | c.1803 | freelance hornist in Vienna | F, 212 | |
| Donatien Urbin | 1809-1857 | c.1829 | student of Dauprat; professor at the Gymnaise Musicale Militaire; supervised the building of a three-valve horn in 1844; published a valve horn tutor in 1852: the first for the three-valve horn; | C2, 122-3 |
| Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek | c. 1797 | hornist in the Paris Opera Orch; published two horn tutors; first to record instructions on hand stopping | M-P, 94 | |
| Joseph Wenzel Vedulang | c.1717 | Bohemian hornist egnaged as Ondratscheck's second at Mainz c.1717 | F, 98 | |
| Franz Vithe | c.1795 | Bohemian freelance hornist in Vienna | F, 210 | |
| Eugene-Leon Vivier | 1817-1900 | a hornist fond of practical jokes; known for his success in producing chords on the horn | M-P, 173 C2, 100-5 | |
| Joseph Vogel | member of the Regensburg Orch about the middle of the 18th century; teacher of Ignaz & Anton Boeck; principal at Ansbach in 1782 | F, 123 | ||
| Carl Wagner | 1772-1829 | student of Portmann; played in chapel royal at Darmstadt in 1795 | F, 210 | |
| Wala | 1780s-90s | virtuoso in the service of Count Pachta and later Count Sanal at Prague during the 1780s & 90s | F, 211 | |
| Walther | c.1772 | hornist in the band of the Duke of Wurttemberg at Ludwigsburg 1772-5 | F, 203 | |
| Johann Gottfried Wecker | c.1685-pre1750 |