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This advanced horn sonata employs a meterless approach to rhythm that rather emphasizes a freer approach to the interpretation of the rhythm. For Willem Valkenier.

Program notes excerpt: The chaconne, as is the characteristic of the Baroque tradition, is based a on stately recurring theme which is initially introduced in the bass. The burlesque is fast and energ...

Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874-1953) was a German composer (student of Ludwig Thuille), pianist, and educator. A prolific composer of the neo-Romantic style, his works include masses, choral music, pian...

This work is a great lyrical choice for a hornist's first solo.

Commissioned by the students of Louis Stout in honor of his 28 years of dedicated teaching at the University of Michigan.