Vienna horn

The Vienna horn is a brass instrument with three valves, a special design of the French horn. It is a simple F horn and has a narrower bore than the double horn. The Vienna horn has more partials and sounds thus generally "brighter" than a double horn ( " Although the Viennese musician, when he speaks of his instrument, paradoxically, always a soft 'and' dark ' refers to sound as an ideal sound! Such a sound has less partials "). In the Vienna Philharmonic, it is for the horn players duty to dominate the Vienna horn. It characterizes the specific Viennese Sound Style.

Description

The tube length is the Viennese horn from the mouthpiece to the bell end about 3.7 meters.

The Vienna horn has usually pump valves and not like horns rotary valves (but the name Vienna horn also refers to F- horns with rotary valves, in contrast to the French horn a smaller scale length of max. 11mm and a removable bow have ). The valve usually used in the Vienna horn is a double pump valve. Its mechanism favored by the position of the valves soft bindings with legato tones, so that the sounds smoothly across the screen.

The tonal features of the Viennese horn result, as has been shown comparative studies of Gregor Widholm, from the special type: the narrow bore promotes teiltonreichen sound. The tube length affected the demand for energy, marksmanship and indirect sound. Due to the higher energy needs take places with many Staccatonoten a player of the Viennese horn especially. In the higher pitches, the lip tension must accurately than other horns are tuned to not mistakenly "land" on a neighboring peak to. The game in the high position thus requires the Viennese horn a little more concentration and better " functioning " of fine motor skills. The double pump valves allow flowing tonal transitions, but make it difficult to let the tones sounded clean with fast legato strings; they can sound slightly blurred.

Manufacturer

The instrument builder Leopold Uhlmann (1806-1878) can be called the "Father of the Viennese horn ". In 1830 he constructed the so characteristic of the Viennese horn pump valves, which were then known as "thorn bush valves ".

Other manufacturers are or were: Yamaha, Andreas Jungwirth, Haruo Kimura, Hermann Ganter, August Beyde ( historical - mid 19th cent.), Anton Dehmal ( historical - end of 19th cent.), Successor Anton Dehmals ( historical - the end of the 19th century -. . early 20th century ), Karl Hoyer (Graz, vm end of the 19th century ), Haagston, Jiracek & sons, productive association of Viennese music instrument maker ( historically -. . 1st half of 20th century ), Vienna Hornmanufaktur, Robert Engel ( historical - 2nd half of 20th cent.), Ernst Ankerl, Gebr Alexander, Daniel Art, Eduard Kiefl.

Virtuoso

Among the most important exponents of the Viennese horn include: Lars Michael Stransky, Wolfgang Tomböck, Thomas Jöbstl, Roland Berger, Josef Veleba, Josef Schantl, Karl Stiegler, Gottfried von Freiberg, Ronald Janezic.