List of compositions for horn

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This is a selected list of musical compositions that feature a prominent part for (French) horn, sorted by era and then by composer.

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[edit] Baroque

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Prelude in F, po.51
  • Archangelo Corelli
    • Sonate in F major for horn i continuo
  • George Frideric Handel
    • Concerto for Two Horns in B flat, No. 1, HWV 332
    • Concerto for Two Horns in F major, No. 2, HWV 333
    • Concerto for Two Horns in F major, No. 3, HWV 334
    • Concerto for Horn and Harmonica in Ab Minor, No. 4 HWV 335
  • Christoph Forster
    • Concerto in Eb
  • Johann Georg Leopold Mozart
    • Concerto in D major
    • Concerto for Two Horns & String Orchestra in E flat major
    • Sinfonia da caccia for Four Horns, Shot-gun, & Strings in G major
  • Johann Joachim Quantz
    • Two concertos in E flat major
  • Johann Georg Röllig
    • Concerto in E flat major
    • Concerto in D major
    • Concerto in H major
  • Gaspare Spontini
    • Divertimento for horn and harp
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
    • Tafelmusik ("Table Music") for 2 horns, strings, and continuo
    • Horn Concerto in D
    • Horn Concerto in E flat
    • Concerto in D major for 3 horns, violin and orchestra
    • Alster-Ouverture for 4 horns and orchestra
    • Concerto a tre for Recorder, Horn and Continuo
    • Suite for two Horns
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    • Concerto in F for Two Horns, RV 539

[edit] Classical

  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
    • Horn Concerto in F
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Luigi Boccherini
    • Concerto n. 1 Per violoncello 2 corni ed archi (G. 477)
    • SEXTETT Es-dur für Horn, zwei Violinen, Viola und zwei Violoncelli
    • SEXTETT Es-dur für Oboe, Violine, Viola, Horn, Fagott und Kontrabaß
  • Franz Danzi
    • Sonata in E flat Op.28
    • Sonata in E minor Op.44
    • Horn Concerto
  • Louis-François Dauprat
    • 5 concertos
    • 1 concertino
    • Sonate in f-major for horn and harp
  • Michael Haydn
    • Concertino for Two Horns
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Horn Concerto No. 1 in D
    • Horn Concerto No. 2 in D
    • Concerto for Two Horns in E flat
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister
    • Horn Concerto No. 1
    • Concerto No. 2 for Two Horns in E
    • Romance for Three Horns and Orchestra
  • Nikolaus von Krufft
    • Sonata for Horn and Piano in F
  • S. Mercadante
    • Concerto
  • Johann Georg Leopold Mozart
    • Concerto for Two Horns & String Orchestra in E flat major
    • Sinfonia da caccia for Four Horns, Shot-gun, & Strings in G major
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
    • Concert for Horn and Strings
  • Anton Reicha
  • Joseph Reicha
    • Concerto for Two Horns, Op. 5
  • Ferdinand Ries
    • Sonata in F major Op.34
    • Introduction and Rondo for Horn and Piano, Op.113, No.2
  • Antonio Rosetti
    • Two solo concertos in D minor, RWV 38-39
    • Eight solo concertos in E flat, RWV 40-43, 47-49, 54
    • Three solo concertos now lost, RWV 44-46
    • Three solo concertos in E, RWV 50-52
    • One solo concerto in F, RWV 53
    • Concerto for Two Horns in E flat major, RWV 56
    • Concerto for Two Horns in E flat major, RWV 57
    • Concerto for Two Horns in E major, RWV 58
    • Concerto for Two Horns in E major, RWV 59
    • Concerto for Two Horns in F major, RWV 60
    • Concerto for Two Horns in F major, RWV 61
  • Carl Stamitz
    • Concerto in E flat for solo horn, 2 flutes, 2 horns, and strings
    • Trio for Horn, Violin and Cello in E flat
  • Johann Strauss
    • Dolci pianti
  • Anton Teyber
    • Two Concertos for Corni da Caccia

[edit] Romantic

[edit] 20th Century

  • Alan Abbott
    • Alla Caccia
  • Hans Abrahamsen
    • 6 Pieces for Violin, Horn and Piano
    • Mit Grønne Underlag
    • Landscapes for Horn, Oboe, Flute,Clarinet and Basson
  • Alexander Abramski
    • CONCERTINO for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Basson and Piano
  • Jeffrey Agrell
    • September Elegy for Natural Horn in Eb and Piano
    • Romp for solo horn
  • Stephen Albert
    • ECCE PUER for Sopran, Oboe, Horn and Piano
  • David Amram
    • Horn Concerto
    • Blues and Variations for Monk
  • Malcolm Arnold
    • Concerto No. 1 for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 11
    • Concerto No. 2 for Horn and Strings, Op. 58
    • Fantasy for Horn, Op. 88
  • Vyacheslav Artyomov
    • FRÜHLINGS-SPECHT
  • Alexander Arutunian
    • Horn Concerto
  • Johannes Aschenbrenner
    • Horn Concerto
  • Kurt Atterberg
    • Concerto for Horn
  • Simon Bainbridge
    • LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
  • Ernest Baker
    • CANTILENA
    • RONDO MIT MOZART for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn und Basson
  • Krešimir Baranović
    • Concerto for Horn and Symphonic Orchestra
  • Rupert Bawden
    • PASSAMEZZO DI BATTAGLIA for Oboe, Horn und Cembalo
  • Richard Rodney Bennett
    • ACTAEON. Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
    • ROMANCES for Horn and Piano
    • Sonate for Horn and Piano
  • Niels Viggo Bentzon
    • Horn concerto
    • Sonate for Horn and Piano
    • KOPENHAGENER KONZERT NR. 1 for Flute, Horn, Trumpet, Cembalo and Strings
    • Trio for Horn, Trumpt and Trombone
  • Leonard Bernstein
    • Elegy for Mippy I
  • Lennox Berkeley
    • Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano
    • SEXTETT for Clarinet, Horn und String quartet
    • QUINTETT for Oboe, Clarinet, Basson, Horn and Piano
  • Bruno Bjelinski
    • Horn Concerto
    • Sonate for Horn
  • Arthur Bliss
    • RHAPSODIE für Mezzosopran, Tenor, Flöte, Horn und Streichquintett
  • Davor Bobić
    • Concerto for Horn, Strings and Bells
  • Leonid Bobilow
    • TRAURIGE WEISE für Horn und Klavier
  • Eugene Bozza
    • En foret
    • Sur les cimes
    • En Irlande
    • Suite for four horns in F (1951)
  • E. York Bowen
    • Sonata in E flat op. 101
  • Brenton Broadstock
    • NEARER AND FATHER für Horn und Klavier
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Anders Broedsgard
    • UNICORN (Opus Es #3) für Horn und Streichquintett
  • Hans Melchior Brugk
    • SERENADE für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Horn und Fagott in Es-dur
  • Geoffrey Burgon
    • FOUR HORNS für vier Hörner
  • Arthur Butterworth
    • Romanza
  • Karen Chatschaturjan
    • TRIO für Horn, Violine und Klavier
  • Carlos Chávez
    • Sonata for Four Horns
    • Energía for Nine Instruments
    • Concerto for Four Horns
  • Arnold Cooke
    • Rondo B-major for Horn and Piano
  • Emil Cossetto
    • four Concert Pastoralas
    • "Fourteen compositions for young hornists"
    • Air
    • Variations on theme "Vehni, Vehni fijolica" from Croatia
  • Edward Cowie
    • ENDYMION NOCTURNES for Tenor, Horn and Strings
  • Jean-Michel Damase
    • Berceuse Op.19
    • Pavane Variée
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
        • Horn Concerto
  • Norman Dello Joio
    • THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER for Horn and Choir
  • Paul Dukas
    • Villanelle for horn and piano (also for horn and orchestra) (Mutopia listing)
  • Eric Ewazen
    • Sonata for Horn and Piano
    • Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for Flute, Horn and Piano
    • Grand Canon Octet
    • Trio for Basson, Horn and Piano
  • Randall Faust
    • Rondo for Horn and Piano
    • Three American Folksongs for Two Horns and Piano
    • Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble
    • Fanfare for the Southeastern Horn Workshop for Horn Octet
    • Meditation for Horn Choir
    • Memoirs and Souvenirs - Prelude and Variations for Multiple Horn Ensemble
    • Quartet for Four Horns
    • Celebration for Horn and Organ
    • Fantasy for Horn and Organ
    • Meditation for Horn and Organ
    • Auburn Echoes for Horn, Flute, and Piano
    • Concerto for Brass Quintet, Percussion and Strings
    • Dances for Natural Horn and Percussion
    • Gallery Music for Brass Quintet
    • Partita for Brass and Percussion
    • Prelude and Toccata for Brass Ensemble
  • Jean Françaix
    • Divertimento
    • Canon à l'octave
  • Peter Racine Fricker
    • Horn Sonata
  • Reinhold Glière
    • Horn Concerto in B, Op. 91
    • Intermezzo, Op. 35, No. 11
    • Nocturne, Op. 35, No. 10
    • Romance, Op. 35, No. 6
    • Valse Triste, Op. 35, No. 7
  • Jeffrey Harrington
    • Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano
  • Lutz Werner Hesse
    • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
  • Paul Hindemith
    • Horn Sonata (1939)
    • Horn Concerto
    • Sonata for Four Horns (1952)
  • Heinz Holliger
    • Cynddaredd – Brenddwyd (Fury – Dream)
  • Robin Holloway
    • Horn Concerto Op.43
  • Gordon Jacob
    • Horn concerto
  • Volker David Kirchner
    • Tre poemi
  • Olivier Knussen
    • Horn Concerto
  • Charles Köchlin
    • Horn Sonata Op.70
  • Jan Kötsier
    • Cinq Nouvelles for four horns, Op. 34a (1947)
    • Sonate for horn and harp
  • Siegfried Köhler
    • Sonate op. 32
  • Uroš Krek
    • Concerto for Horn and strings
  • Bernhard Krol
    • Horn Concerto "Study in Jazz"
  • Igor Kuljerić
    • Concerto for Horn and Strings
  • Lars-Erik Larsson
    • Concertino for Horn and String Orchestra, Op.45, No.5
  • Benjamin Lees
    • Concerto for French horn and Orchestra
  • György Ligeti
    • Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
    • Hamburg Concerto (1998)
  • John Hindley Austin Lowe
    • Sonata No. 1
  • Trygve Madsen
    • Sonata op. 24
  • John McCabe
    • The Goddess Trilogy for Horn and Piano
      • The Castle of Arianrhod
      • Floraison
      • Shapeshifter
  • Stephen Montague
    • Horn Concerto
  • Olivier Messiaen
    • Des Canyons aux etoiles
    • Le tombeau de Jean-Pierre Guezec
  • Miroslav Miletić
    • Concerto for Horn and Strings
  • Thea Musgrave
    • Horn Concerto
  • Hermann Neuling
    • Bagatelle for Low Horn und Piano
  • Carl Nielsen
    • Canto Serioso
  • Boris Papandopulo
    • Elegy for horn and harp
  • Frano Parać
    • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
  • Jiri Pauer
    • Horn Concerto (1959)
  • Walter Perkins
    • Concerto for Four Horns
  • Nicholas Perrini
    • Festival fanfare for six Horns
    • Legend for Horn and Piano
    • 3 Miniature Frescoes
  • Ivo Petrić
    • Horn Concerto
    • Gemini concertino for Violin, Horn and six instruments
    • Three compositions for Horn
    • Music for five for Horn and four percussions
    • Lyric Fragment for Mezzosoprano, Horn and Piano
    • Sonata No.1 for Horn and Piano
    • Lyrics for Horn and Piano
    • Sonata No.2 for Horn and Piano
  • M.Piantoni
    • Air de chasse
  • Werner Pirchner
    • Born for Horn for five (four?) horns, PWV 36
  • Wolfgang Plagge
    • Sonata No.1 for Horn and Piano, op.8
    • Sonata No.2 for Horn and Piano
    • Sonata No.3 for Horn and Piano
  • Hans Wolfgang Poser
    • Sonate, op. 8
  • Francis Poulenc
    • Elégie for Horn and Piano, op. 168 (1957)
  • Othmar Schöck
    • Horn Concerto
  • Humphrey Searle
    • Aubade for Horn and Strings
  • Mátyás Seiber
    • Nocturne for horn & strings
  • Vissarion Shebalin
    • Concertino Op.14 No.2
  • Allan Stepheson
    • Horn Concerto
  • Fred Stride
    • Fanfare and Scherzo
  • Igor Štuhec
    • Concert Fantasy for horn and strings
    • Four compositions for Horn and Piano
    • Tema con variazioni for Violin, Horn and Piano
  • Stjepan Šulek
    • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
  • Alexander Tcherepnin
    • Six Pieces for Four Horns
  • Michael Tippett
    • Sonata for 4 Horns
  • Henri Tomasi
    • Chant Corse for Horn and Piano
    • Danse Profane for Horn and Piano
    • Horn Concerto
  • Ernest Tomlinson
    • Rhapsody and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
    • Romance and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
  • Kerry Turner
    • Sonata for Horn and Piano
    • Twas a Dark and Stormy Night (horn and piano)
    • Concerto for Low Horn and Chamber Orchestra
  • Jane Vignery
    • Sonate op. 7
  • Julius Weismann
    • Horn Concertino
  • Alec Wilder
    • Sonatas Nos. 1-3 for Horn and Piano
    • Suite for Horn and Piano



[edit] Unaccompanied (20th Century)

  • Jeffrey Agrell
    • Attitudes
    • Meditation
  • Hans Erich Apostel
    • Sonatine, op. 39 b
  • Malcolm Arnold
    • Fantasy for Horn, Op.88
  • Hermann Baumann
    • Elegia for solo natural horn
  • Sigurd Berge
    • Hornlokk (Horn Call)
    • Horn 2000
  • Alex Bortton
    • Solo bassist
  • Vitaly Buyanovsky
    • Four Improvisation(Travel-Expresions)
    • Finland Sonate
    • Baumann-Sonate
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
    • Sea Eagle
  • David Deason
    • Musica Sonante for Horn Alone
  • Stephen Dodgson
    • "Cor Leonis"
  • André Dubost
    • "Coups de Vent" (Quatre pieces pour cor seul)
  • Randall E. Faust
    • Prelude for Horn
    • Call and Response for Solo Horn
    • Harmonielehre for Solo Horn
    • Horn Call for Horn and Electronic Media
    • Mazasha for Solo Horn
    • Prelude for Solo Horn
  • Frederick Goossen
    • Solo Music For Horn
  • Jorg Herchet
    • Einschwingen
  • Viktor Kalabis
    • Invokation
  • Otto Ketting
    • Intrada
    • Cheops
  • Bernhard Krol
    • Laudatio for Horn Solo
  • Lev Kogan
    • Tfila
  • Robert Hall Lewis
    • Monophony VI
  • Vincent Persichetti
    • Parable for Solo Horn
  • Wolfgang Plagge
    • Monoceros : Das Einhorn Op. 51
  • Anthony Plog
    • "Postcards"
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen
    • Concert Etude
  • Giacinto Scelsi
    • Quattro Pezzi

[edit] 21st Century

  • Lee Actor
    • Horn Concerto
  • Don Banks
    • Horn Concerto
  • Paul Basler
    • Cantos
    • HARAMBEE for five horns
    • SERENADE for horn and piano
    • FOLK SONGS for horn and piano
      • Alegría (Puerto Rican)
      • Funiculì, Funiculà (Italian)
      • Round Dance (Native American)
      • Niharvend Sarki (Turkish)
      • The Hills of Arirang (Korean)
      • The Drunken Sailor (British)
      • Shenandoah (American)
    • THREE PIECES FOR HORN QUARTET
      • Celebration;Chorale; Psalm
    • LACRYMOSA for horn duo
    • FOLK SONGS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES for horn and piano
      • Suo Gan (Wales)
      • Admiral Benbow (England)
      • The Minstrel Boy (Ireland)
      • The Campbells Are Coming (Scotland
    • DOS DANZAS for four horns and piano
    • THE ASCENSION for horn choir
  • Ole Buck
    • KINDERGARTEN für Flöte, Oboe, Horn und Violine
    • SONNABEND für Flöte, Oboe, Horn und Violine
  • Elliott Carter
    • Horn concerto
  • Wladimir Dowgan
    • ZWEI STÜCKE for Horn and Piano
  • Anders Eliasson
    • Concert for HORN and ORCHESTRA
    • KONZERT: FARFALLE E FERRO for Horn and String- orchestra
  • Eric Ewazen
    • Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra
  • Richard Faith
    • MOVEMENT NR. 2 for Horn and Piano
  • Randall Faust
    • Horn Concerto
    • Declamation for Horn and Harpsichord
    • Three English Folk Songs for Horn and Piano
    • Festive Processional for Horn and Organ
    • Sesquicentennial Prelude for Horn and Organ
    • Concerto for Mallet Percussion and Brass Quintet
  • Jelena Firssowa
    • KAMMERKONZERT NR. 4 for Horn and 13 Instruments
  • Randy Gardner
    • WHY?!
  • Tomaž Habe
    • Concerto for Horn
  • ALAN HOVHANESS
    • "ARTIK", Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra, op. 78
  • David Keeffe
    • Three Poems for Horn and Piano
      • Lonely Watcher of the Skies
      • Bright Cap and Streamers
      • Winds of May
    • Magnificat (horn and piano, horn and band)
    • Octet for Horns
    • Horn Concerto
  • David Krivitsky
    • Horn Concerto
  • Lojze Lebič
    • Musica Concertata
  • Jean-François LÉZÉ
    • Cancoes lunares for Horn, Tuba nad Piano
  • Peter Liebersen
    • Horn Concerto
  • Pamela J. Marshall
    • "wild horn whose voice the woodland fills" for eight horns
  • Petar Obradović
    • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
  • William Presser
    • Fantasy on the Mouldering Vine
    • Elegy and Caprice for Horn and Piano
    • Sonatina
    • Rhapsody on a Peaceful Theme
  • Marin Rabadan
    • Triptychon
  • Craig Russell
    • Rhapsody for Horn and Orchestra (Morning's Decisions, Dizzy Bird, Wistful Musing, Tito Machito, Flash)
  • Luis Saglie
    • From Dreams to Reality
  • Thomas Sleeper
    • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra [1]
  • Tomislav Uhlik
    • Concerto for Horn and Winds
    • Concerto for Horn and Strings
  • Herbert Willi
    • Äon (concerto for horn)
  • John Williams


[edit] Unaccompanied (21st Century)

  • Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
    • Ciglerania
    • Sweet Ovals
  • Andrés Valero Castells
    • Les Trois Roses du Cimetière de Zaro (A.V.18)
  • Siegfried Matthus
    • Hoch willkommt das Horn
  • Jörg Widmann
    • Air für Horn solo
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