Ensemble

Natural Horn in an ensemble setting

Horns at work

Initially sharing a playing technique with the trumpet, the two instruments belong to the natural brass family. Both trumpet and horn are restricted to the natural overtone series and are played without any interference in the bell. Any corrections of pitch done to the 11th and 13th partials are through use of lips and air to bend these tones closer to tempered pitch. Virtuosi were able to apply this technique to bend partials down to include a few lower neighbor pitches.

 

c. 1630 Musicians, Giovanni Battista Bracellli (1584-1650)
1710 The frontispiece of the Leipzig printing of the ‘Unfehlbare Engel-Freude oder Geistliches Gesangbuch
Listed as Joachim von Sandrart (1606 – 1688)
c. 1720 A musical party, Jan Baptist Lambrechts (1680 – after 1731) (Antwerp)
1719 Performance of Heinichen’s Diana

sur l’Elba
1719 German school, pageant-wagon with musicians in a parade during the Festival of Venus at the Saxonian court
mid 18th cen. Italian court orchestra
1723 Premier of Johann Joseph Fux’s “Costanza e fortezza” in Prague
detail
Dutch school, horn and clarinet players, 18th century (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague)

 

c. 1720 German School Orchestra

 

1728 Austrian school, trumpets and horns performing at a banquet following oaths of allegiance to Charles VI
18th cen. Harmonie ensemble serenading the infirm
1727 Componimento sacro per la festività del SS. natale, Vincenzo Franceschini (1680-c.1744)
(detail)
1744 Concertato, Johann Balthasar Bullinger 1713-1793

 

 

1730 Johann Christoph Kolb Celebration Plate for the 200th Anniversary of the Augsburg Confession
early 18th cen. German school

c. 1740 Members of the Leiden Theater Company (Private collection, Netherlands)

1732 Siard Nosecky Strahov Monastery Prague
1732 William Hogarth Rakes Progress
The Sextet, Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776)
c. 1740-50 Saucer featuring trumpet and horn player, China
1736 detail from main hall doors in the former town hall in Constance, Germany
1733 Keller, Johann Heinrich A Bacchanal in a Wooded Landscape
1736  Ballroom with Musicians Gouache #5 from Privatalbum , Hörmannsperger, Johann Franz (c.1710-?)
(detail)
c. 1743 Vauxhall Gardens shewing the Grand Walk at the entrance of the Garden & the Orchestra with the Musick Playing
detail
1736 detail from main hall doors in the former town hall in Constance, Germany
1739 French school, orchestra performing from a pavillion in the Seine for the marriage of Princess Louise-Elisabeth of France
detail
1739 Peter Jacob Horemans (1700-1776) A Concert by a Portico
mid. 18th cen. Palace interior, Pannini
Anonymous baroque ensemble (detail)
1740 Interior of the Teatro Regio during a performance of Feo’s opera  seria “Arsace”, Turin
1743 Madrid Felipe V (van Juan Loo)
(detail)
18th cen. Dancers accompanied by musicians on balcony
1748 Domingo Martínez (1688-1749) Carro del Pregón de la Máscara
 (detail)
Giuseppi Zocchi (1711-1767)
mid 18th cen. Chamber Concert, Giuseppe Zocchi
A Concert, possible Zocchi sketch
1747 Char de Mars, François Blondel (1683-1756) (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris)
1750 Anonymus book illustration Pastoral dance scene
1750 Scène Carnival, le menuet Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

 

L’Ouie, Georg Balthasar Probst (1673-1748) (Dayton C. Miller Iconography Collection, Library of Congress Music Division)
Ronde de putti – J. B. Huet
c. 1740 Series of four scrap prints, eau-forte, Martin Engelbrecht (British Museum)
1749, Viaggi di Enrico Wanton (unknown Venetian theatre interior),Zaccaria Seriman (1708-1784)(detail)
1752 Giovanni Michele Granieri (1708-1762)- “Lucio Papirio” (detail)
Painting on a panel from a farm in Grimstrup, Denmark
1751 The Physic Garden, Chelsea, a plan view, John Haynes (fl. 1730-1751)
1751 The Physic Garden, Chelsea, a plan view, John Haynes (fl. 1730-1751) (detail)
c.1753 Johann Rudolf Dälliker (1694-1769) Konzert zu Ehren des Bürgermeisters Johannes Fries in Zürich
 (detail)
mid. 18th cen. Allegorie der Musik Johann Baumgartner (1712-1761)
detail of unidentified procession
1753 Paul Joseph Delcloche Hofkonzert beim Fürstbischof von Lüttich auf Schloß Seraing (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München)
c. 1750 Interior with a Musical Gathering, Nicolaes Aartman
mid 18th cen. Goblet

The Consort, Thomas Bakewell (1729-1764)
1754 German school, copy of Das Bönnsche Ballstück, Maskenball im Hoftheater, Bonn
 (detail)
1756 Francesco Battaglioli – Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza en los jardines de Aranjuez
(detail)
La danse devant la tonelle, Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752)
18th ceramic, spanish school
Der Sommer, Ebersbach, Johann Jacob after Holzer (Städel Museum)

detail

detail
18th century celebration, Catalonia
1761 A view of Cheapside, as it appeard on Lord Mayor’s Day last, John June
1758 Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780)- Le Turc Généreux, Ballet Pantomime
1758 Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780)- Le Turc Généreux, Ballet Pantomime (detail)
c. 1760 Die Bozner Pfarrmusik, Johann Josef von Menz (b.1719-?)
18th Century, Procession of the Black Queen, Carlos Julião (1740-1811)
1767, detail from a fresco depicting the dedication of the Hl. Kreuzkirche at Pill, Christoph Anton Mayr

c.1760 Manuel Tramulles i Roig (Barcelona 1715-1791)
c.1760 Flipart, Charles Joseph Gathering in a Garden (Museo Nacional del Prado)
1742 Le Insignia degli Anziani Consoli, Bologna
1742 Le Insignia degli Anziani Consoli, Bologna (detail)
18th cen. Le Insignia degli Anziani Consoli, Bologna (detail)

 

18th cen. Le Insignia degli Anziani Consoli, Bologna (detail)
ca. 1770 Bal Chinois, Charles Eisen
c. 1764 Tanz auf der Dorfstraße, Johann Conrad Seekatz (1719-1768)
1769 British school, David Garrick Reciting the Ode in Honour of Shakespeare at the Jubilee at Stratford
(detail)
c.1770 Lunch at the San Beneto Theatre offered by the Doge in honor of the princes of the north, Venice (detail)
c. 1770 Court Musicians (detail)
1779 Schloss Wolfstein Fürstenzimmer, Joseph Widemann
Title page to Sonate a due violini, e basso, op. 5, Christian Joseph Lidarti (1730-1795)
1769 John Lodge (fl.1754-1796) Mr. Garrick delivering his Ode, at Drury Lane Theatre, on dedicating a Building & erecting a Stature, to Shakespeare 
 (detail)
1765 Premiere of the opera Il parnasso confuso by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Vienna Johann Franz Greipel (attr.)
c. 1780 Horn duo printed in “New Instructions for the French Horn”
18th cen. Illustration
Italian aristocratic dance, Pietro Fabris (active 1740-1792)
detail
1773 Concert Spirituale
1773 An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of three musicians to an audience in the ruins of a temple, Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de, 1736-1810
c.1775 German Memento Mori Interior
c. 1775 Trois Musiciens, Dionys van Nijmegen (1705-1798)
1779 detail from Cover page to a J.J. Hummel edition of 3 Haydn symphonies
1780 Local Poetry. Songs and poems, relating to the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, or incidents connected therewith, Thomas Bell (fl. 1780-1813)
1782 Concerto in the San Benedetto Theatre After Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) 
(detail)
c.1775 An Electineering Procession
c. 1780 Un concert François-André Vincent (1746-1816)
c.1785 Secular concert, Lisbon, Giuseppe Servolini (1748-1834)
1786 Procession in honor of Prince John’s marriage, Rio de Janeiro 5th Car, Antõnio Francisco Soares
angel ensemble

 

1786 A new way to pay the National Debt    James Gillray (1756-1815)
c.1780 Concerto, Giuseppe de Gobbis (fl. 1772-1783)
late 18th cen. ensemble

 

 

late 18th cen. A Concert, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)
1792 Basel music society including a trumpet marine, Johann Rudolph Wettstein
Angelic Ensemble – Wallfahrtskirche Unser Lieben Frau – Bad Schussenried Steinhausen Fresco
1789 Ban-yan Day on board the Magnificent, John Nixon (1755-1818)  (British Museum)
1789 King George III bathing in the sea to musical accompaniment at Weymouth             John Nixon (1755-1818)
c.1770    Scena e cavatina or open air-orchestra or musicians on a balcony    Giuseppe Poggiali (fl. 1770-1784) after Giuseppe Servolini (1748-1834) 

 

c.1780 Musicians, Giuseppe de Gobbis (fl. 1772-1783)
1790 Ein liebhaber Concert, Emanuel Burckhardt (1776-1844)
1793 View of the High Street, Edinburgh, with a Procession, David Allan (1744-1796)
c. 1790 Title page illustration

 

1785 Concerto Coalitionale, James Sayers (1748-1823)
1782 A Sunday Concert, Charles Loraine Smith
1789 Orgie des gardes du corps dans la salle de l’Opéra de Versailles – after Prieur ; engraved by Berthault
(detail)
late 18th cen. Concert, Anonymous
1791 Ragged musicians and dancers. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
1785 Serenata interpretada en Madrid en los festejos de la doble boda real queunió, Domenico Muzzi (1742-1812) (attributed)
c.1790 The Concert Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
1791 German school, Gruppe von Musikanten in Leifers
(detail)
Musicians practising, John Nixon (1755-1818)
late 18th cen. Musiciens ambulants, anonymous french school
c.1792 British Military Band, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
1792 Basel music society, Johann Rudolph Wettstein
1793 Fatigues of the Campaign in Flanders, James Gillray (1756-1815)
1798 Veduta del salone centrale della Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Giovanni Battista Bagnasacco (fl. 1777-1799) and Giovanni Comando (1746-1822)
1798 Veduta del salone centrale della Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Giovanni Battista Bagnasacco (fl. 1777-1799) and Giovanni Comando (1746-1822) (detail)
1795 The Procession, Elkanah Tisdale North America
1799 Chealsea Reach, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)  (Yale Lewis Walpole Library)
c. 1800 Chamber ensemble
The harmonius family, Robert Dighton (1752-1814)

 

1799 Savoyards of Fashion or the Musical Mania
1799 Strolling Players, Swiss school
the pic-nic orchestra
1817 Dos à Dos accidents in quadrille dancing, George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
1817 La belle assemblée or sketches of characteristic dancing, G. Cruikshank
1799 The enraged politician or the Sunday reformer or a noble bellman crying stinking fish Isaac Cruikshank, London
1803 Dillettanti Theatricals, James Gillray (1756-1815)
1800 Waltzer au Mouchoir James Gillray (1756-1815)
Early 1800 House Concert, painted house organ by anonymous artist
c.1800 Czech National Songs (Frontpiece) Jan Ritter of Rittersberg
c.1800 Porte Dauphine, A print by Charles Percier (1764-1838) from Album Fontainebleau
Comforts of Bath, The Ball. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
early 19th century house concert
1806 Pacific Overtures, or A Flight from St Cloud’s Over the Water to Charley. A new dramatic peace now rehearsing, James Gillray (1756-1815) (British Museum)
1807 Comedy in the Country, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
Comforts of Bath, Coaches Arriving, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
C. 1800 3 Spanish Musicians
1809 Masquerade at the Pantheon Theatre, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
(detail)
Le morceau d’ensemble ou le désespoir du compositeur. Dédié à tous les musiciens
1809 Orchestra gallery at Vauxhall Gardens, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) 
1811 The Gig Shop, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) 
1816-1831 Three musicians, Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848)
1811 The Manager’s Last Kick, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
1812 The Regent’s Birthday, caricature by George Cruickshank
1815 Twelfth Night, Cruikshank
The Country Concert, England
1825 Löjliga Spel Kort (playing cards), Elis Chiewitz (1784-1839)
1825 The Cyprians ball at the Argyle Rooms, George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
(detail)
1800-30 Print of monkeys playing various instruments, german school
The Yorkshireman in London or Humphrey Hobnail’s return from the Play
Caricature Ornaments for Screens A Private Concert
1844 Narrative Sketch, A. P. Sapozhnikov
Unknown detail 
1839 Statue de St. George et son cortege – précédent la procession de la Fête-Dieu, Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848)
1884 LES PRINCIPAUX INSTRUMENTS DE MUSIQUE from Tour de la France par deux Enfants (G. Bruno)
c. 1820 A Ball at Scarborough, Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The Waltz, Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848) )(Victoria & Albert Musuem, London)

1849 Nouveau Langage Musical, J.J. Granville

 

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