Horns III & IV in Verdi Requiem have Nr.1 written for horn in A, and
Nr.3 written for horn in Ab. I'm pretty sure that these are A basso
and Ab basso, but I'd appreciate an authoritative confirmation since
the conductor (a fine singer and choir master) says she does not
really know.
These parts are fairly chromatic at places, and I wonder why they
were not all written for horn in F, since when Verdi wrote this work
the valved F horn should have been the standard instrument... am I
wrong?
By the way, if anybody is planning to be in Florence on october 23,
you can find the play-bill at
http://poincare.dma.unifi.it/~canarutto/23ottobre05/
Daniel
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