JONTY, CLARK (ilustrador)
2014
Every month, we introduce one of the BBCs Ten Pieces, each specially chosen to bring the wonders and joys of classical music to children of primary school age. HERES A QUESTION: how many cheese sellers do you know? None? How about French horn-playing cheese sellers? No? Mozart knew one, and wrote his wonderful Fourth Horn Concerto for him. Joseph Leutgeb was the fellows name and, before he opened his cheese and sausage shop in 1777, he was also a brilliant horn player with the Salzburg court orchestra. But his instrument was quite unlike the French horns that you will normally see in orchestras today. For a start, it didnt have any buttons to change the notes, or valves as theyre known, so all the sounds had to be made just by tightening and loosening the lips and by putting the left hand into the end of the horn, called the bell. You think that sounds difficult? It was. This cheerful piece sounds just like the call of a horn that huntsmen use to gather together the horses before they ride into the countryside. It wasnt made from brass at first, though, but from a hollowed-out animals horn. Tally-ho!
http://bristolcdn.s3.amazonaws.com/bbcmusic/Ten%20Pieces%20PDFS/2.%20Mozart.pdf