Hans, I heard somewhere that this piece was originally a sonata for piano and horn accompaniment and not a sonata for horn and piano accompaniment. Is that true?
Also I think Birdalone music has another transcription of the piece in E, and it's fairly clean. The only problem is the piano music doesn't have the horn part. I've played the piece before. It's very beautiful, and in E it shines quite nicely. In F and in Eb it doesn't seem to have the same effect. -William In a message dated 1/31/2004 12:44:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Obviously, you are using the publication prepared by Edmond Leloir, as > the original tonality is in E. We all know, that for most > Bb-horn-players the tonality E is a finger breaker, so Edmond Leloir got > the Sonata published as dowm transposed for a half step. It does not > matter much, but E sounds a bit brighter. > > As far as I remember - had the first print (Breitkopf, before 1810) as > part of my collection which is transferred now to the Kremsegg Museum in > Austria together with my 80 horns, to be united with the Streitwieser > Collection &Louis Stout Collection) - this Sonata is not much different > in playing style than Beethovens Sonata. Nicolaus de Krufft (1779-1813) > comes from Joseph Haydns many pupils. He used the horn less advanced > than did Rosetti, but somewhat more demanding than Beethoven (stamina). > He used less "chromatic" (= manipulated) pitches. If I find the copy of > the original the few next days, I will come back to this for sure. _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
