Schumann wrote one further four horn piece in 1849. A couple of years earlier, he had taken a post as director of the Dresden Liedertafel, a male voice choir. By the time he composed this, for voices and horns, he had left the choir, complaining to a friend that it “offered too little in the way of actual musical inspiration.”
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The unusual scoring of the Fünf Gesänge aus H. Laubes Jagdbrevier has a distinguished precedent. Maybe Schumann had this piece in mind when he wrote his Op. 137:
The text for Schubert's Nachtgesang im Walde can be found here - as ever, the horn is the go-to instrument for anything to do with woodlands or hunting (”Waldhorn” = “wood” or “forest” horn).
Staying with Schubert and the horn, here’s one final clip: the lovely Auf dem Strom, beautifully performed by Mark Padmore, Paul Lewis and Richard Watkins (text).
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