Mozart Horn Concertos

Introduction

In this research paper, I will talk about the history of the horn from past to present. Because horn was the natural horn and the valves of the horn were not invented in the classical period.

Mozart’s concertos always a part of the horn standard repertoire, because every horn player knows these pieces and want to play these pieces as well. I analyze some Mozart’s horn concertos because I want to help horn player understand more the background of the classical period and to organize these pieces more clearly.

I will focus on the history of the horn, the classical period and the rhythm, form textual about these horn pieces that Mozart composed. The first movement of each Mozart’s horn concerto is a concerto-sonata form. In this

That is why many orchestras, schools of music or conservatory audition always put Mozart’s horn concertos in their standard repertoire. Compare from the past to present, the natural horn was harder than the horn in the present because they do not have valves. That is why the range of the Mozart horn concertos was narrow. This project lets us know the sonata form was the popular form in the classical period. Analyze the music materials in Mozart’s horn pieces let us figure out the way that Mozart composed. The horn concerti that Mozart composed were interesting because even Mozart used some mocked word to Joseph Leutgeb; these concertos still are the compact music. Currently, the numbers of Mozart’s horn pieces were different because Köchel used the started time to number them that was not using the finished time that people always thought. Mozart’s works still finding out anywhere nowadays, so this list of Köchel catalogue still will be changed in the future. No matter in past or today, the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s compositions still is an important research because, without him, we perhaps cannot find or organize these Mozart’s works clearly and