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List of compositions for horn. This is a selected list of musical compositions that feature a prominent part for the natural horn or the French horn, sorted by era and then by composer.
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List of Compositions Featuring the Horn. Please note that this list is manually updated, and may not contain IMSLP's complete collection. To generate automatically updated lists see "Browse by Work genre" in the sidebar. This page lists IMSLP entries which feature the horn .
A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
Trio, Op. 162 for violin, cello, harp (1867) Orpheus, Op. 253 for harp and piano. Sweet Dreams, Op. 300 for clarinet and piano. Elias Parish Alvars. Grande fantaisie brillante for harp and piano (1838), based on themes from Anna Bolena, La sonnambula and Lucia di Lammermoor, composed with Carl Czerny. Francesco Petrini.
The horn is a transposing instrument, usually in F (a written C sounds like the F below). At the end of the 19th century the so-called “double horn” was invented, which was like a combination of a horn in F and a horn in B flat. In the 18th century there were generally two horns in an orchestra.
