Andante in C major for Horn and Piano Arabesque while masterclasses with Barry Douglas

while masterclasses with Barry Douglas

No other cycle of works wields such an appeal as his "Préludes op

piano arpeggiation and dislocation

7 The Master’s Touch

For the first time

Andante in C major for Horn and Piano Arabesque while masterclasses with Barry DouglasIn the summer of 1888, while also working on his tone poem Don Juan, Richard Strauss composed this brief Andante for his father, Franz Strauss, a member of the Munich Court Opera and one of the greatest horn players of his age. The Andante was intended as the slow movement of a still unfinished sonata that Strauss, however, never did complete (to the chagrin of all horn players). The piece thus remained unpublished until 1973. For the new Urtext