compositions for the competition – french horn



1st category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No.1 in D major, KV 412 (1st movement)

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Eugene Bozza - En Irlandia

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Antonio Vivaldi - Largo from Concerto for two French horns
  • Josef Dominik Škroup - Concerto in B flat major
  • Jan Václav Stich-Punto - Concerto No.7 in E flat major (2nd movement)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No.3 in E flat major, KV 447 (2nd movement)
  • Karl Matys - Concerto No.2 (2nd movement)
  • Franz Strauss - Concerto in C minor, op.8 (2nd movement)
  • Jean Baptiste Loeillet - Sonata for French Horn and Piano (3rd and 4th movement)
  • Luigi Cherubini - Sonata No.1 in F major
  • Franz Strauss - Fantasy, op. 2 (up to the 1st Variation inclusive)
  • Jan Zdeněk Bartoš - Rondino a Elegie

2nd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Eugene Bozza - Chant Lointain

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concert Rondo in E flat major KV 371

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No.3 in E flat major, KV 447 (1st movement)
  • Jan Václav Stich-Punto - Concerto No.7 in E flat major (1st movement)
  • Karl Matys - Concerto No.2 (1st movement)
  • Tomaso Albinoni - Concerto in B flat major (1st movement)
  • Jan Jakub Ryba - Concerto in Dis (1st movement)
  • Joseph Haydn - Concerto No. 2 in D major (1st movement)
  • Michael Haydn - Concerto in D major (1st movement)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata in F major (1st movement)
  • Jean Baptiste Loeillet - Sonata for French Horn and Piano (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Kerry Turner - Sonata (2nd movement)
  • Emil Hlobil - Sonata for French Horn and Piano (1st movement)
  • Paul Hindemith - Sonata in F major 1939 (1st movement)
  • Antony Plog - Postcard (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Bernhard Krol - Laudatio
  • Jaroslav Kofroň - Sonatina (1st movement)
  • Franz Strauss - Nocturno
  • Jan Koetsier - Romance

3rd category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto Nr.2 in E flat major, KV 417 (1st movement)

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Richard Strauss - Concerto No.1 in E flat major, op.11 (1st movement)

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • František Antonín Rosetti - Concerto in E flat major (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto Nr.4 in E flat major, KV 495 (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Franz Strauss - Concerto in C minor, op.8 (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Camille Saint–Säens - Morceau de Concert, op. 94
  • Luigi Cherubini - Sonata No.2 in F major
  • Emil Hlobil - Sonata for French Horn and Piano (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Paul Hindemith - Sonata 1943 (1st, 2nd and 3rd movement)
  • Paul Dukas - Villanelle pour Cor et Piano
    (must be played on valve French horn)
  • Gilbert Vinter - Hunter´s Moon
  • Malcom Arnold - Fantasy for Horn, op. 88
  • Vitali Bujanovsky - Espana
  • Kerry Turner - Sonata (1st and 2nd movement)

4th category

1. round - obligatory composition:

  • Jan Václav Stich-Punto - Concerto No.5 in F major (1st and 2nd movement)

2. round - obligatory composition:

  • Robert Schumann - Adagio und Allegro

optional compositions (one composition for each round):

  • Christoph Förster - Concerto Nr.1 in E flat (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Christoph Förster - Concerto Nr.2 in E flat (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Johann Joachim Quantz - Concerto in E flat major
  • Georg Philip Telemann - Concerto in D major
  • Joseph Haydn - Concerto No. 1 in D major (1st and 2nd movement)
  • František Antonín Rosetti - Concerto in D minor (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Carl Maria von Weber - Concertino in E minor, op.45
  • Jiří Pauer - Concerto (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Richard Strauss - Concerto Nr. 2 in E flat major (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Reinhold Gliere - Concerto for French horn (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Othmar Schoeck - Concerto for French horn (1st and 2nd movement)
  • Eugene Bozza - En Foret
  • Eugene Bozza - Sur les Cimes
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