Janos Gereben ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>ROHNERT PARK - What was Brahms thinking in 1865, writing his Horn Trio in
>E flat, a century before Richard Todd arrived on the scene? Who did the
>composer have in mind to perform this difficult piece, requiring perfect
>balance between horn, violin and piano?

Perhaps Richard Strauss's father, for whom Wagner wrote the horn call in
Siegfreid and young Richard his first horn concerto?

deryk barker
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