Repertoire

Etude and Solo Lists for Horn Students by Year

 Lists are guidelines, and should be used to inspire and give focus to studies. Pieces not listed may be performed or studied.

Freshmen

Kopprasch – 60 etudes op. 6 

Maxime-Alphonse – 200 etudes nouvelles, Book 1


Cooke – Rondo in Bb 

Gliere – Four Pieces op. 35 no. 6, 7, 10, 11 

Mozart – Concerto No. 3, K. 447 

Saint-Saens – Romance, op. 36 

Strauss – Nocturno, op. 7 

Sophomores (previous year plus)

Kling – 40 Characteristic Etudes

Maxime-Alphonse – 200 etudes nouvelles, Book 2  

Mueller – 34 studies, op. 64 


Damase – Berceuse, Op. 19 

Glazunov – Reverie, op. 24

 Haydn – Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Hob.VIId:3 

Ketting – Intrada 

Saint-Saens – Morceau de Concert 

Juniors (previous year plus)

Gallay – 12 studies, op. 57 

Maxime-Alphonse – 200 etudes nouvelles, Book 3 


Beethoven – Sonata, op. 15 

Dukas – Villanelle Krol – Laudatio 

Mozart – Concerto No. 2, K. 417 

Mozart – Concerto No. 4, K. 495 

Vinter – Hunter’s Moon 

Seniors (previous year plus)

Belloli – 8 Studies 

Maxime-Alphonse – 200 etudes nouvelles, Book 4 


Berge – Hornlokk 

Grazioli – Adagio 

Haydn – Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob.VIId:4 

Neuling – Bagatelle 

Schumann – Adagio and Allegro 

Strauss – Concerto No. 1, op. 11

Graduate Students

Graduate students are expected to have a general idea of the pieces and literature they are interested in pursuing. The pieces below are merely a guideline of various works in a variety of styles and genres. As above, this list is not exhaustive. These pieces can also be supplemental literature for undergraduates looking for specific styles (unaccompanied, chamber, low, etc.) 

Etudes:
Reynolds – 48 Etudes for French Horn 

Solos: 

Amram – Blues and Variations for Monk 

Beckel Jr – The Glass Bead Game 

Bozza – En Foret 

Brahms – Trio op. 40 

Buyanovsky – Four Improvisations from Travelling Impressions, Espana 

Ewazen – Concerto for Horn 

Forster – Concerto in Eb 

Gillie – Sonata 

Hindemith – Sonata 

Jacob – Concerto 

Likhuta – I threw a shoe at a cat 

Martin – Lament 

Messiaen – Appel Interstellaire 

Mozart – Quintet K. 407 

Poulenc – Elegie 

Raum – Confessions of St. Augustine 

Salonen – Concert Etude 

Schnyder – Le Monde Miniscule 

Strauss – Concerto No. 2, TrV 283 

Tamusuza – Okukoowoola Kw’Ekkondeere 

Tanaka – Enchanted Forest 

Telemann – Concerto in D 

Vignery – Sonata 

Weber – Concertino. op. 45 

Winteregg – Blue Soliloquy 

Yenque – Tanguito