Etudes

Georg Kopprasch was a horn player of the early nineteenth century, and his 60 Studies, Op. 6, written for the low horn and first published in Leipzig around 1833, became a standard for every brass instrument: scales, arpeggios, slurs, articulation and endurance, from plain and slow to fast and ornamented.

Reading the page. The studies are filed as Friedrich Gumbert's edition prints them, for horn in F and in his numbering: a horn player reads the part as printed, and any other player sees it in their own key and clef. Gumbert writes the lowest passages in the old bass-clef notation; here they are in modern notation, an octave higher. A tick above the staff is a breath, and a note under the tick may be left out to breathe. The examples Gumbert prints above some studies are their own items, after the study. The print gives no metronome marks, so each starting tempo is our suggestion.

The engraving is a Practice Farm engraving from Friedrich Gumbert's edition (Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, about 1880), which is in the public domain.