The horn-player in the orchestra seemed to distract me more than the horn should've. ❋ Da_lj (2008)
Strauss, was first horn-player in the Munich Court Orchestra. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)
Once, while the husband was in jail on account of his political sympathies, the mother became a burlesque singer, and when the father was released, he joined the troupe as a horn-player. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
"Then that Dutch horn-player threw the bomb," propounded the head of the "Detective Bureau" ponderously. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
Tartarin, who had puzzled over the tavern-sign ever since his arrival, inquired of the horn-player, who was breaking a crust in a corner of the room: ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
She must have reentered the hotel, as they all did now, weary with standing about, shivering, to no purpose, so that presently no one remained on the cold and desolate plateau of that gray dawn but Tartarin and the Alpine horn-player, who continued to blow a melancholy note through his huge instrument, like a dog baying the moon. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
Punto [the celebrated horn-player, for whom Beethoven wrote Sonata 17] is not a little indignant about the omission, and I must say he has reason to be so; but even before seeing him it was my intention to have reminded you of this, for I can only explain the mistake by great haste or great forgetfulness. ❋ Wallace, Lady (1866)
Tell Herr Leitgeb [a horn-player in the Archbishop's orchestra] that he must come straight to Milan, for he is sure to succeed well here; but he must come soon. ❋ Mozart, Wolfgang A (1864)
David Matthews had dedicated his 'Horn Quintet for horn and string quartet' to his mentor Nicholas Maw, but the mellow warmth of its slow movement was closer to Bartok; horn-player Richard Watkins - with his cellist brother Paul at his side - brought a pliant virtuosity to the fast movement. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But the government horn-player thought he could not get on in duets with me. ❋ Friedrich Wieck (1829)
Leitgeb [a horn-player in the Archbishop's orchestra] that he must come straight to Milan, for he is sure to succeed well here; but he must come soon. ❋ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1773)
“MA TRES-CHERE EPOUSE: ” J'ecris cette lettre dans la petite chambre au Jardin chez Leitgeb [a Salzburg horn-player]; ou j'ai couche cette nuit excellement ” et j'espere que ma chere epouse aura passe cette nuit aussi bien que moi. ❋ Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 (1903)
