Instruments | English Horn (Cor Anglais) | Late Romantic | Classical
The English horn, or cor anglais, is a member of the oboe family. It is neither English nor a horn, and the name is usually written off as a mystery. Pitched a fifth below the oboe, it had been developed in 1760 by Ferlandis of Bergamo, but was rarely heard in the orchestra before the Romantic period. Brod produced a modern instrument in 1839, for the first time using a curved brass crook to carry the reed. There are notable parts for it in the third act of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and, perhaps most famously of all, it depicts the swan in Sibelius’s ‘Swan of Tuonela’, one of the Lemminkäinen legends.
Styles & Forms | Late Romantic | Classical
Instruments | Bassoon | Late Romantic | Classical
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