Contents
- F. Strauss - Nocturno
About the book
Franz Strauss, principal horn of the Munich court orchestra for more than forty years and father of Richard, wrote his Nocturno for horn and piano around 1864. It is a song without words: a long-breathed Andante quasi Adagio over a rippling accompaniment, a more urgent middle section marked più animato e marcato, and the opening melody again, quieter, to close. It is one of the first pieces a horn player learns to sing on the instrument.
The horn part is printed for the horn in F.
Source: The score and the horn part (Joseph Aibl, Munich, c. 1891), in Universal Edition's reprint (Vienna, 1904, plate U.E. 1368).
