Il Corno

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

The Romanze from Mozart's Horn Concerto in E flat, K 447, is known and loved by all. And it doesn't require a great master to make it 'sound'.The lyrical solo part is interwoven with orchestral episod...

Penderecki's Horn Concerto subtitled Winterreise [Winter Journey] is already part of the repertoire of every hornist who concerns himself with unusual sounds and playing techniques. Now the piano redu...

Not only being the first supporter of his son Richard and one of the best hornists of his time, the Bavarian court musician Franz Strauss also liked to compose from time to time. The compositions for...

Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) studied composition with Walter Braunfels and Heinrich Lemacher and conducting with Hermann Abendroth. He made a name for himself as professor at the Music Academy of Col...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 7).

The English translation fury - dream of the Gaelic original title shows the spectrum of this short character study which explores all the subtleties of modern horn playing.

Even though the Frankfurt composer Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994) made a lasting impression, especially by his sacred choral music his career as a composer began with piano, chamber and orchestral music....

In his Hamburg Concerto Ligeti, inspired by the tonal possibilities of the natural horn, explores alternatives to the well-tempered tonal system. In the orchestra piece he juxtaposes the solo horn wit...

In his novel Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel Garcia Márquez mentions Domenico Scarlatti as a music teacher. I was so delighted with this idea that I played through all his 555 sonatas. I could not g...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

The four demanding songs of different character for countertenor with baritone tessitura and natural horn in F and E flat are based on the collection of poems 'Briensertiitsch Va?a?rsa' by the Swiss w...

Schneider composed Cornissimo for the 225th anniversary of the internationally known company Gebr. Alexander in Mainz who have specialised in the making of brass instruments. Accordingly, the world pr...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 7)

The horn piece 'Air' requires a highly virtuosic technique, as indeed it should since it was composed in 2005 as the compulsory piece for the 54th International Music Competition of the ARD. At the sa...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

This Romance exposes an expressive melodic line that it develops in an ABA form. Its initial theme evokes the Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor (BWV 795) by J. S. Bach. The middle section contrasts by its the...