The Development of the Orchestral Horn. A Brief History

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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #46
    Depends on what you mean by "Top Line"

    Esa-Pekka Salonen is fairly "top line" IMV

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    • Hornspieler
      Late Member
      • Sep 2012
      • 1847

      #47
      Originally posted by slarty View Post
      It must be heartening to have such a distinguished former horn player as a conductor fast approaching the top rank as Sebastian Weigle, MD at the Frankfurt Opera and recent success at Bayreuth, the former 1st horn at the Berlin State Opera. Not enough orchestral musicians seem to make it into the top flight.
      Kempe was one (Oboe) and Giulini (viola) was another, but I can't remember a premiere horn player that went onto becoming a top line conductor. were there any others?
      A few names ...

      Norman del Mar
      Maurice Handford
      Eric Wetherall
      Anthony Halstead

      ... and of course, shortly before his tragic death, Dennis Brain.

      HS

      BTW I believe that I am right in saying that Hans Richter was actually a trumpet player. Didn't Wagner write a special part for him in his Siegfried Idyll?

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      • MrGongGong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #48
        Steve Bell is also doing a fair bit of conducting these days

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        • slarty

          #49
          Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
          A few names ...

          Norman del Mar
          Maurice Handford
          Eric Wetherall
          Anthony Halstead

          ... and of course, shortly before his tragic death, Dennis Brain.

          HS

          BTW I believe that I am right in saying that Hans Richter was actually a trumpet player. Didn't Wagner write a special part for him in his Siegfried Idyll?
          Thank you, I had forgotten Norman Del Mar and did not know of the others.
          I could not list Dennis Brain as we have no way of knowing really what kind of career he might have developed had he lived and moved on from horn playing, but he was certainly moving in that direction.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #50
            Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
            BTW I believe that I am right in saying that Hans Richter was actually a trumpet player. Didn't Wagner write a special part for him in his Siegfried Idyll?
            IIRC, Richter learnt to play the Trumpet specifically in order to play the part in the Siegfied Idyll (he had to practice away fom the Wagner family home, so that Cosima wouldn't hear him and start asking questions - "Why are you learning the Trumpet? What's that piece you keep playing?")

            Not perhaps (I've never heard his work in this capacity, so I can't comment) a "Top Rank" conductor, but hasn't Barry Tuckwell taken up the baton on quite a few occasions? Oh, and Roger Montgomery was conductor of Jane's Minstrels for its first decade.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Pabmusic
              Full Member
              • May 2011
              • 5537

              #51
              Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
              A few names ...

              Norman del Mar
              Maurice Handford
              Eric Wetherall
              Anthony Halstead

              ... and of course, shortly before his tragic death, Dennis Brain.

              HS

              BTW I believe that I am right in saying that Hans Richter was actually a trumpet player. Didn't Wagner write a special part for him in his Siegfried Idyll?
              No, he was a horn player, but he played the (tiny) trumpet part in the first performance of the Idyll. He also prepared and conducted it.

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              • Hornspieler
                Late Member
                • Sep 2012
                • 1847

                #52
                Originally posted by Stan Drews View Post
                Forgive me if this has been marked in another thread, but Nicholas Busch former LPO principal horn for many years, died last Wednesday at the age of 73. He'll be remembered for many things - I've always had a soft spot for his Britten Serenade (with Ian Partridge) and the Strauss Last Songs (Lucia Popp/Tennstedt). There's also a nice story of him "returning to the scene of the crime" to do a patch in the Barbirolli Mahler 5 - years after the event
                . R.I P.
                Nick was a fine hornplayer. 100% reliable and admired by his colleagues for his quiet efficiency.

                A terrible shock for his wife Maggie and I extend my deepest sympathy.

                There but for the Grace of God ...

                RIP Nick. You leave behind much for us to remember you by.

                HS

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