Are you sure about that Berlioz statement? Or was that just the infamous two-horns-blown-with-bells-held-tightly-together-to-produce-a-note-not-possi ble-any-other-way effect that Berlioz wrote about (and I've never yet seen two players brave enough to try).
No, I'm not 100% sure, but that's the way I remember having read it.
And the orchestration class statement was fairly silly. With horns, the hi-lo pairing was 100% historical, now it is 85% utilitarian.
Yes and no. There are still Hi or Lo specialists, but most well-schooled hornists can indeed play anything. I no longer play horn nor do I teach it, but I do know that at Horn Society conferences there are competitions for general players, hi players, and low players.
John
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