List of Compositions For Horn - Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

• Alan Abbott
  • Alla Caccia
• Jean Absil
  • Rhapsodie No. 6, Op. 120
• Hans Abrahamsen
  • 6 Pieces for Violin, Horn and Piano
  • Mit Grønne Underlag
  • Landscapes for Horn, Oboe, Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon
• Alexander Abramski
  • Concertino for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano
• Jeffrey Agrell
  • September Elegy for Natural Horn in E-flat and Piano
  • Romp for solo horn
• Stephen Albert
  • Ecce Puer for Soprano, Oboe, Horn and Piano
• Hugo Alfvén
  • Notturno Elegiaco, horn and organ, Op. 5
• Douglas Allanbrook
  • The Majesty of the Horn
• David Amram
  • Horn Concerto
  • Blues and Variations for Monk
• Malcolm Arnold
  • Concerto No. 1 for Horn and Orchestra, Op. 11
  • Concerto No. 2 for Horn and Strings, Op. 58
  • Fantasy for Horn, Op. 88
  • Burlesque (1944)
• Vyacheslav Artyomov
  • Fruhlings-Specht
• Alexander Arutunian
  • Horn Concerto
• Johannes Aschenbrenner
  • Horn Concerto
• Kurt Atterberg
  • Concerto for Horn, Op. 28
• Robert Avalon
  • Zeal
• Simon Bainbridge
  • Landscape and Memory
• Ernest Baker
  • Cantilena
  • Rondo mit Mozart for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn und Bassoon
• Don Banks
  • Horn Concerto
• Krešimir Baranović
  • Concerto for Horn and Symphonic Orchestra
• Carol Barnett
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano
• Elsa Barraine
  • Crepuscules
  • Fanfare
• Rupert Bawden
  • Passamezzo di Battaglia for Oboe, Horn und Cembalo
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Actaeon. Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
  • Romances for Horn and Piano
  • Sonate for Horn and Piano
• Niels Viggo Bentzon
  • Horn concerto
  • Sonate for Horn and Piano
  • Kopenhagener Konzert No. 1 for Flute, Horn, Trumpet, Cembalo and Strings
  • Trio for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone
• Leonard Bernstein
  • Elegy for Mippy I
• Lennox Berkeley
  • Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano
  • Sextet for Clarinet, Horn und String quartet
  • Quintett for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Piano
• Richard Bissill
  • Three Portraits for horn octet
  • Corpendium 1 for six horns
  • Sinfonia Concertante for clarinet, trumpet, horn and orchestra
• Bruno Bjelinski
  • Horn Concerto
  • Sonate for Horn
• Arthur Bliss
  • Rhapsodie für Mezzosopran, Tenor, Flöte, Horn und Streichquintett
• Davor Bobić
  • Concerto for Horn, Strings and Bells
  • Capriccio for Horn and Piano A.O.57
• Leonid Bobilow
  • Traurige Weise für Horn und Klavier
• Edith Borroff
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano
• Eugene Bozza
  • En foret
  • Sur les cimes
  • En Irlande
  • Suite for four horns in F (1951)
• Darijan Božič
  • Humoreska for Horn and Orchestra (1959)
• York Bowen
  • Sonata in E-flat, Op. 101
• Srećko Bradić
  • Lost Music, for Flute,Oboe, Horn and Clarinet
• Massimo Brajković
  • Ballade for Horn and Piano
• Brenton Broadstock
  • Nearer and Farther for Horn and Piano
• Benjamin Britten
  • Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31
  • Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain, Op. 55
• Anders Broedsgard
  • Unicorn for Horn and String quintet, Op. Es #3
• Margaret Brouwer
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano
• Hans Melchior Brugk
  • Serenade for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon in E-flat
• Richard Burdick
  • Trinitization for Flute, oboe, horn, piano and strings (Spring 1981)
  • Pluto, for Flute, horn, ‘cello and harp (Summer 1983)
  • Blue Stone Fantasy for Flute, Horn, ‘cello and Harp
  • Serenade No. 2 for oboe, clarinet, 2 horns, cello and bass 1983
  • Polaris Overture for flute, oboe, trumpet, clarinet, horn, violin, cello and organ.
  • A Puff of smoke for flute and horn 1983 rev. 1993
  • Seraphic Meditation for soprano or English horn, horn and organ
  • The Pivot Point for oboe, English horn, two horns, and two bassoons
  • Luxor, sketched for two horns
  • Sonata I for horn and Piano
  • Abracadabra for flute, English horn, ‘cello, and piano
  • The Ocean for Tenor, horn, percussion and organ
  • Horn Sonata # 2
  • Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, 1986 rev. 1994
  • Romance for violin, horn and piano 1986 (rev. 1994)
  • Duet for Clarinet and Horn, Trios; January 1987
  • Trios for horns January 1987, Op. 36
  • Quartet for Horns 1987, Op. 39
  • Twelve Duets for two horns, Op. 40
  • Andante “Victoria” for horn and organ, Op. 41
  • Sonata for Horn and Organ, Op. 42
  • "Moments When We See. . . " for horn and tape December 1987, Op. 44
  • Duet for two Hand horns, Op. 50
  • Quartet in Bb for hand horns written at Lowell Greer's request, Op. 51
  • The Hermit for horn and organ, Op. 53
  • Duo for Horn and String Bass, Op. 54
  • Romance for horn and piano, Op. 55
  • Concerto for horn, Op. 56
  • "Mandala III" for horn and violin, Op. 58
  • Concerto for two horns, Op. 60
  • Astral Waves I for horn and tape, Op. 62
  • Astral Waves II for Violin, Horn and Tape, Op. 64
• Geoffrey Burgon
  • Four Horns for four Horns
• Dallwitz B urkhard
  • Romanze
• Lydia Busler-Blais
  • Appalachia for solo horn, L.101
  • For My Love On His Birthday for horn, cello, vibes, and voice, L. 102
  • Frost Cycle for soprano, horn, and piano. Four songs, L. 103
    • • I. Stopping by Woods
      • II. My November Guest
      • III. October
      • IV. To the Thawing Wind
  • Villa After The Storm for horn, cello, and 2 clarinets, L. 008
• Arthur Butterworth
  • Romanza
• Ann Callaway
  • Four Elements
• Karen Chatschaturjan
  • Trio für Horn, Violine und Klavier
• Henri Chaussier
  • Elegy
• Carlos Chávez
  • Sonata for Four Horns
  • Energía for Nine Instruments
  • Concerto for Four Horns
• Andrea Clearfield
  • Songs of the Wolf
• Birchard Coar
  • Concerto
• Arnold Cooke
  • Rondo B-major for Horn and Piano
• Vladimir Cosma
  • Sonatine
• Emil Cossetto
  • Four Concert Pastoralas
  • "Fourteen compositions for young hornists"
  • Air
  • Variations on theme "Vehni, Vehni fijolica" from Croatia
  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
• Edward Cowie
  • Endymion Nocturnes for Tenor, Horn and Strings
• Jean-Michel Damase
  • Berceuse, Op.19
  • Pavane Variée
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Horn Concerto
• Brett Dean
  • Three Pieces for Eight Horns
• Jean Michel Defaye
  • Alpha
• Norman Del Mar
  • Sonatina for two horns
• Norman Dello Joio
  • The Mystic Trumpeter for Horn and Choir
• James DeMars
  • Dedicace
• Vladimir Djambazov
  • Dialog for Horn and Tape
  • LovenCoren for Solo Natural Horn (dedicated to Hermann Baumann)
• Paul Dukas
  • Villanelle for horn and piano (also for horn and orchestra) (Mutopia listing)
• Marc Egea
  • Sonatina
• Eric Ewazen
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano
  • Ballade, Pastorale and Dance for Flute, Horn and Piano
  • Grand Canon Octet
  • Trio for Bassoon, Horn and Piano
• Randall Faust
  • Rondo for Horn and Piano
  • Three American Folksongs for Two Horns and Piano
  • Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble
  • Fanfare for the Southeastern Horn Workshop for Horn Octet
  • Meditation for Horn Choir
  • Memoirs and Souvenirs - Prelude and Variations for Multiple Horn Ensemble
  • Quartet for Four Horns
  • Celebration for Horn and Organ
  • Fantasy for Horn and Organ
  • Meditation for Horn and Organ
  • Auburn Echoes for Horn, Flute, and Piano
  • Concerto for Brass Quintet, Percussion and Strings
  • Dances for Natural Horn and Percussion
  • Gallery Music for Brass Quintet
  • Partita for Brass and Percussion
  • Prelude and Toccata for Brass Ensemble
  • Horn Call for Horn and Electronic Media
• Silvio Foretić
  • Concerto for Horn and Candle
  • Polonaise for four Horns, four Saxophones, four Trombones and Piano
• Jean Françaix
  • Divertimento
  • Canon à l'octave
• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Horn Sonata
• Reinhold Glière
  • Horn Concerto in B-flat, Op. 91
  • Intermezzo, Op. 35, No. 11
  • Nocturne, Op. 35, No. 10
  • Romance, Op. 35, No. 6
  • Valse Triste, Op. 35, No. 7
• Iain Hamilton
  • "Voyages" for horn and chamber orchestra
  • Sonata Notturna for horn and piano
• Walter Hartley
  • "Sonoroties II" for horn and piano
  • Meditation
  • Fantasy on Vermont Tunes
• Vjekoslav Gržinić
  • Divertimento for Horn and chamber ensemble
• Jeffrey Harrington
  • Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano
• Jiří Havlík
  • Concerto for French Horn and Strings
  • Three Fugues for Three French Horns and Piano
  • Mileniana for a Horn Octet
  • Stages for Brass Instruments
• Bernhard Heiden
  • Sonata for horn and piano
• Lutz Werner Hesse
  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
• Paul Hindemith
  • Horn Sonata (1939)
  • Horn Concerto
  • Sonata for Four Horns (1952)
• Emil Hlobil
  • Sonate, Op. 21
• Heinz Holliger
  • Cynddaredd – Brenddwyd (Fury – Dream)
• Robin Holloway
  • Horn Concerto, Op. 43
• Alan Hovhaness
  • "Artik", Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra, Op. 78
• Yoshirō Irino
  • Globus I for Horn and Percussion (1971)
• Gordon Jacob
  • Horn concerto
• Leoš Janáček
  • Concertino
• Josip Janković
  • Ballade
  • Easy Waltz
• Knud Jeppesen
  • Little Trio in D major
• Wojciech Kilar
  • Sonata for horn and piano
• Volker David Kirchner
  • Tre poemi
  • Lamento d'Orfeo
• Anđelko Klobučar
  • Canzone for Horn and Organ
  • Diptih for Horn and Strings
  • Diptih for Horn and Organ
  • Miniature
  • Sonate for Horn and Organ
  • Movement for Horn and String Quartet
  • Trio for Horn, Violine and Piano
• Oliver Knussen
  • Horn Concerto
• Charles Koechlin
  • Horn Sonata Op.70
• Jan Koetsier
  • Cinq Nouvelles for four horns, Op. 34a (1947)
  • Sonate for horn and harp
• Siegfried Koehler
  • Sonate, Op. 32
• Włodzimierz Kotoński
  • Quartettino, for 4 horns (1950)
• Uroš Krek
  • Concerto for Horn and strings
• Bernhard Krol
  • Horn Concerto "Study in Jazz"
  • Ballade, Op. 94
• William Kraft
  • Evening Voluntaries
  • Fanfare LA Festival '87 for Eight Trumpets, Four Horns, Four Trombones and Timpani
  • Veils and Variations for Horn and Orchestra
• Igor Kuljerić
  • Concerto for Horn and Strings
• Johan Kvandal
  • Introduction and Allegro, Op. 30
• Lars-Erik Larsson
  • Concertino for Horn and String Orchestra, Op. 45, No. 5
• Benjamin Lees
  • Concerto for French horn and Orchestra
• Frank Ezra Levy
  • Suite for Horn and Piano (1960)
• György Ligeti
  • Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)
  • Hamburg Concerto (1998)
• Magnus Lindberg
  • Campana in Aria for horn and orchestra (1998)
• John Hindley Austin Lowe
  • Sonata No. 1
• David Lyon
  • Concerto for Horn and Strings
• Trygve Madsen
  • Sonata, Op. 24
• Josip Magdić
  • Concertino for Horn and instrumental ensemble
  • Hommage a Boris, for 2 Horns and Strings
  • Elegie for Horn and Piano, Op. 7
  • Concert gravure for Horn and Chamber ensemble(Koncertantne gravire za rog i komorni ansambl), Op. 50
• Adalbert Marković
  • Cantus for Horn and Strings
• Kazunori Maruyama
  • Foxtrot for Tomcat
• John McCabe
  • The Goddess Trilogy for Horn and Piano
    • The Castle of Arianrhod
    • Floraison
    • Shapeshifter
• Olivier Messiaen
  • Des canyons aux étoiles..., VI.Appel interstellaire
  • Le tombeau de Jean-Pierre Guezec
• Miroslav Miletić
  • Concerto for Horn and Strings
  • Three Scherzo for Horn and Violine
  • Monolog
• Stephen Montague
  • Horn Concerto
• Thea Musgrave
  • Horn Concerto
  • Music, for horn and piano
• Hermann Neuling
  • Bagatelle for Low Horn und Piano
• Carl Nielsen
  • Canto Serioso
• Sparre Olsen
  • Aubade, Op. 57, No. 3
• Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz
  • Small suite for 4 Horns
• Boris Papandopulo
  • Elegy for horn and harp
• Frano Parać
  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
• Jiri Pauer
  • Horn Concerto (1957)
• Walter Perkins
  • Concerto for Four Horns
• Nicholas Perrini
  • Festival fanfare for six Horns
  • Legend for Horn and Piano
  • 3 Miniature Frescoes
• Ivo Petrić
  • Horn Concerto
  • Gemini concertino for Violin, Horn and six instruments
  • Three compositions for Horn
  • Music for five for Horn and four percussions
  • Lyric Fragment for Mezzosoprano, Horn and Piano
  • Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano
  • Lyrics for Horn and Piano
  • Sonata No. 2 for Horn and Piano
• M. Piantoni
  • Air de chasse
• Werner Pirchner
  • Born for Horn for five (four?) horns, PWV 36
• Wolfgang Plagge
  • Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano, Op. 8
  • Sonata No. 2 for Horn and Piano
  • Sonata No. 3 for Horn and Piano
  • A Litany for the 21st Century
• Hans Wolfgang Poser
  • Sonate, Op. 8
• Almeida Prado
  • Trio from the Diary of Pero Vaz de Caminha
  • Celectial Charts III
• Francis Poulenc
  • Elégie for Horn and Piano, Op. 168 (1957)
• James Paul Sain
  • Syllogism for horn and digital media
• Peter Schickele
  • "Pentangle" Five Songs for Horn and Orchestra
• Othmar Schoeck
  • Horn Concerto
• Mark Schultz
  • Alligator Alley (1994)
  • Ashfall (1995)
  • The Beast Tales (1997)
  • Dragons in the Sky - orchestration (1998)
  • Echoes primeval -Horn Choir (8-16)
  • I and my Annabel Lee (1998)
  • The Melon Patch (1996)
  • Over your shoulder, don't smile (1994)
  • Pillars of Fire (1994)
  • Rainbow horned-dinosaur Anne (1998)
  • 'Raptors (1998)
  • A River of Amber and Bronze (1992) - Sauropods (1998)
  • Singing out of the lips of silence (1996)
  • T. Rex (1990)
  • Voices from Spoon River (1993)
• Humphrey Searle
  • Aubade for Horn and Strings
• Mátyás Seiber
  • Nocturne for horn and strings
• Vissarion Shebalin
  • Concertino, Op. 14, No. 2
• Ethel Smyth
  • Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra
• Rand Steiger
  • A New-Slain Knight
• Allan Stepheson
  • Horn Concerto
• Fred Stride
  • Fanfare and Scherzo
• Igor Štuhec
  • Concert Fantasy for horn and strings
  • Four compositions for Horn and Piano
  • Tema con variazioni for Violin, Horn and Piano
• Stjepan Šulek
  • Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
• Randall Svane
  • Horn Concerto 1991
  • At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners 1993 (tenor, horn, timpani, strings)
• Mladen Tarbuk
  • Concerto grosso for Horn, Trumpet, Trombone and Strings
• Alexander Tcherepnin
  • Six Pieces for Four Horns
• Michael Tippett
  • Sonata for 4 Horns
• Henri Tomasi
  • Chant Corse for Horn and Piano
  • Danse Profane for Horn and Piano
  • Horn Concerto
• Ernest Tomlinson
  • Rhapsody and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
  • Romance and Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
• Kerry Turner
  • Sonata for Horn and Piano
  • Twas a Dark and Stormy Night (horn and piano)
  • Concerto for Low Horn and Chamber Orchestra
• Tomislav Uhlik
  • Concerto for Horn and Winds
  • "Sjećanje na prijatelja" (Memory of Friend) for Horn Quartet
• Jane Vignery
  • Sonate, Op. 7
• Gilbert Vinter
  • Hunter's moon
• Milan Vlajin
  • Bagatela I
  • Bagatela II
• Errollyn Wallen
  • At the Ending of a Year
• Julius Weismann
  • Horn Concertino
• Alec Wilder
  • Sonatas Nos. 1-3 for Horn and Piano
  • Suite for Horn and Piano