The best I can tell, the *only* reason the horn parts are ever routinely scored 1/3, 2/4 is due to misinformation in the Walter Piston orchestration book that was followed as gospel by a generation of composers and their students.
I doubt that, Robert, with all respect. It's pretty standard in 19th century orchestral scores, although during the 20th century your way became standard for band scores. It simply goes back to the days when natural horns were played in pairs, sometimes one pair in one key and the other in another. That gives you a natural high-low pair for each key.
John
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