|
Name |
Birth-Death |
Active Dates |
Biographical Information |
Source |
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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 |
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