CD36

Classical Natural Horn
Music by Duvernoy & Schneider

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Beautiful authentic practice classical era natural horn music, for horn trio and duo.

Released: September 20, 2015

Program Notes:

A very popular style of music in Beethoven's lifetime.

Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy

Frédéric Duvernoy, also Duvernois, was 
 born at Montbéhard, most likely on October 16, 1756 and died in Paris on July 19, 1838. He was a horn player, composer, and teacher.

He studied horn and composition without a 
teacher, and was the first major figure in the French school of horn 
playing. He was probably the first to turn away from the practice of
 dividing horn players into two distinct categories, cor alto and cor basse. Specializing in the middle register, he created a third category, the cor mixe, a technique which he brought to a high standard. His playing and teaChing marked the definitive break from the Austro-Bohemian tradition.

His first documented performance was a horn concerto in the Concert Spiritual, August 6, 1788, He worked for several orchestras (Comedie-Italienne, Opera-Comique, Garde National, Paris Opera) before being appointed to Napoleon Bonaparte’s Chapelle Musique (Imperial Chapel), a private band, as first horn, a position he held until 1830. Napoleon is said to have been a great admirer of Duvemoy. He retained an equivalent of this position under Louis XVII and Charles X until the 1830 Revolution.

In 1795, Duvernoy was named senior professor of horn at the 
newly-formed Paris Conservatoire. In 1802 he published his Méthode pour le Cor, it is from this that his duets and trio we taken for this recording.

Georg Abraham Schneider

Georg Abraham Schneider
was born in a small village near Darmstadt
on April 19, 177.
He played horn for the Court Chapel in Berlin

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Richard Burdick as a musician:
French hornist: Richard O. Burdick is the first horn of Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Regina Symphony Chamber Players in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a prolific composer.

His move to Canada in 2003, with his wife Rebecca and his two boys, marked the start of the fourth major period in his musical Career.

In the 1980’s Richard was first Horn of Napa Symphony, a member of a San Francisco based theater orchestra and played lots of chamber music as manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts, a chamber music series in Berkeley California.

Starting in 1990 he played fourth Horn full-time for Sacramento Symphony, which went bankrupt in 1996. He then won auditions for Fresno Philharmonic, Napa & North State Symphonies and played in Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera.

He is a prolific composer and has many self produced CD’s of his own compositions, Bach, his classical natural horn playing and multi-track performances of many of his favorite pieces.

He performs on a variety of horns, a baroque natural horn (1720), a classical era natural horn (1800), a romantic era (1840's) natural horn, a single F horn from the 1880's, his main symphony horn is a Brendan Model Finke triple horn.

He has also done many music related jobs such as arranger for Sacramento Symphony, librarian and personal manager for Sacramento Philharmonic, and manager of Trinity Chamber Concerts (chamber music series) in Berkeley, California for 19 years starting in 1984.

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Tracks List:

Track	CD36 – Classical Natural Horn Music by Duvernoy & Schneider	Duration
	18 Trios for Three Horns, Op. 56 . . . . . . . . . Georg A. Schneider	26:02
1	I.Adagio	2:51
2	II.Allegro	0:58
3	III. Allegretto	1:00
4	IV. Menuetto	1:43
5	V. Allegretto	1:27
6	VI. Arioso	1:27
7	VII. Fanfare	1:52
8	VIII. Menuetto	1:11
9	IX. Allegro	0:58
10	X. Allegro	2:13
11	XI. Adagio	1:42
12	XII. Allegro (chase)	1:13
13	XIII. Adagio	2:11
14	XIV. Allegro	0:48
15	XV. Menuetto	0:54
16	XVI. Rondo	1:03
17	XVII. Allegretto	1:26
18	XVIII. Allegro	1:03
	Twenty Duets from “Method for Horn”  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frederic Duvernoy	34:04
19	I. Pastorale	1:27
20	II. Allegro	0:45
21	III. Adagio	2:06
22	IV. Allemande	1:02
23	V. Andante	1:34
24	VI. Grazioso	1:24
25	VII. Polonaise	1:11
26	VIII. (unnamed)	0:45
27	IX. Adagio	1:46
28	X. Allegro	2:41
29	XI. Adagio	2:01
30	XII. Presto	1:19
31	XIII. Andantino	1:19
32	XIV. Andantino	1:54
33	XV. Allegro	1:26
34	XVI. Adagio	2:38
35	XVII. Andante	2:38
36	XVIII. Minuetto	3:27
37	XIX. Prestissimo	1:19
38	XX. Allegretto	2:02
	Four Trios from “Method for Horn”  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frederic Duvernoy	9:51
39	I. Polonaises; Allegretto	1:18
40	II. Adagio	2:12
41	III. Adagio - Allegro	2:14
42	IV. Theme con Variazioni	4:07
	Total time:	71:15

 

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