Walter Hecht's Horn Significa #19

Questions

By Eric James

Who played the 13-bar trumpet part in the first performance of Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll"? (This is definitely a horn-related question.)

For which instrument did Berlioz actually designate the big "horn" solo in his "Royal Hunt and Storm"?

An opera by a well-known composer exists in which there is only one horn part in the pit but two on stage. Also, the pit horn gets to take part as an obligatto instrument in of the arias of this opera. Name the opera and/or the composer.

In keeping with Walter's passion for quoting luminaries from the world of horn playing, who is known to have referred to the big solo in Tchaik 5 as "the horn player's Lord's Prayer"?

Name four composers who wrote on the theme of "Pelleas and Melisande". Can you name five?

In which of Beethoven's works can be found the composer's only use of the basset horn?

In which Mozart opera can be found a scene where several different ensembles play different pieces at the same time?

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