The "Kafka" sketchbook in the British Library provides the only source for the melody of a lost concerto in F for this instrument.
The "Kafka" sketchbook in the British Library provides the only source for the melody of a lost concerto in F for this instrument. A C-major trio for an English horn and two of these instruments was written by a composer who used that same ensemble for a set of variations on a duet sung between Zerlina and Don Giovanni, "LÃ  ci darem la mano." Beethoven's seventh symphony opens with an A major orchestral flourish followed by this instrument playing A E C- sharp F-sharp. This instrument has a brief cadenza before the recapitulation of Beethoven's fifth symphony, and is used in his sixth symphony to represent a quail. In the second act of a ballet, a high G, followed by four eighth notes rising from C to F, begins this instrument's solo rendition of the theme from that ballet, Swan Lake. For 10 points, name this instrument that represents the duck in Peter and the Wolf, the highest pitched standard double reed instrument.
The "Kafka" sketchbook in the British Library provides the only source for the melody of a lost concerto in F for this instrument.
oboes [or hautbois]