Philip Farkas

Philip Farkas ( March 5, 1914 *, † 21 December 1992 ) was an American horn player and co-founder of the International Horn Society.

As a child first received lessons on the piano. At twelve he joined the Boy Scouts of America who were looking for someone for the flugelhorn. He took lessons from a neighbor who played the jazz trumpet.

With 15 showed symptoms of asthma, which is why his parents sent him to a school concert band. The only instruments that just became available, were Bass drum and tuba. He picked up the tuba, as this but it was too bulky, the conductor told him to switch to horn. From 1927 he took horn lessons with Earl Stricker and studied from 1930 at the Calumet High School. In addition, he received private lessons with Louis Dufrasne, a then well-known horn players.

1933 followed by the first engagement as principal horn in the newly established Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1936 to 1941 he served as principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1941 to 1945 in the Cleveland Orchestra, and from 1945 to 1946 in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After a short time in which he again played in the Cleveland Orchestra, he returned to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and remained there until 1960.

From 1960 he was professor of horn at the Indiana University School of Music. 1978 held an honorary doctoral degree in music from Eastern Michigan University. His teaching career also took him to Northwestern University, the Cleveland Institute, the Kansas City Conservatory, DePaul University and Roosevelt University.

He was co-founder and honorary member of the International Horn Society (IHS ).

Farkas Farkas designed the horn and some mouthpieces for Holton. He founded a publishing house, among other things, the Wind Music, Inc.

He has authored several publications, including The Art of French Horn Playing which is also referred to as the Bible of horn players.

Publications

  • The Art of French Horn Playing
  • The Art of Brass Playing
  • The Art of Musicianship
  • Classic horn
  • American musician
  • University teachers (Indiana)
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 1992
  • Man
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