Featured prominently in Cesar Frank's Symphony in D, solos for this instrument are included at the beginning of Act Three of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and in the second movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony.  
Featured prominently in Cesar Frank's Symphony in D, solos for this instrument are included at the beginning of Act Three of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and in the second movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony.  It has been suggested its name came from a misspelling of the French phrase for "angled horn" which refers to the bend near the mouthpiece.  FTP, identify this double-reed woodwind, an alto oboe originally called a "cor anglais."
Featured prominently in Cesar Frank's Symphony in D, solos for this instrument are included at the beginning of Act Three of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and in the second movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony.  
English horn (accept early cor anglais)