Horn Music

Recently I was looking at a Google stats report for Horn Matters and something jumped out at me. One horn solo in our collection...

Till is one of those essential excerpts we all learn, and it has a correct interpretation. One person who got the correct interpretation directly...

In recent years I have seen repeated references to an “exposition” of the first Strauss horn concerto. What makes it very puzzling is the...

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. After finishing with the solos in the...

In thinking about horn repertoire, and teaching it completely online for the end of this semester, my mind turned to the question of what...

In my summer practice I’ve kept coming back to the Mozart Quintet for horn and strings K407, and the more I look...

Tempo choice is always an interpretation question. At the 2019 IWBC Gail Williams performed the Hindemith Sonata on...

Last up in this brief series looking at some of my favorite works for the horn from the 20th century (all included in my...

Continuing this brief series looking at 20th century works I chose to include on my Canto CD, next up is Im Tiefsten Walde, Op....

We all like good music, and a lot of wonderful music for the horn was composed in the 20th century. I have five favorites...