A soli for this instrument opens Mahler's Symphony No. 3.
Benjamin Britten wrote a serenade for tenor, strings, and this instrument. A soli for this instrument opens Mahler's Symphony No. 3. The main theme of the andante cantabile ["on-DON-tay con-TAH-bee-lay"] movement of Tchaikovsky's ["chai-KOFF-skis"] Symphony No. 5 is played by this instrument. The final movement of a concerto for this instrument begins with a low B-flat followed by six E-flats; that concerto was one of four that Mozart wrote for Joseph (*) Leutgeb ["LOIT-geb"], who played this instrument. This instrument's techniques include hand-stopping, and its earlier "natural" version did not have valves. Rising clarinet arpeggios introduce a metrically offset solo for this instrument, which includes a chromatic passing tone between the second and third scale degrees, in Richard ["REE-card"] Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. For 10 points, name this curvy brass instrument pitched in F.
Benjamin Britten wrote a serenade for tenor, strings, and this instrument.
French horn [do not accept "English horn"] 