Anton Teyber (1754 - 1822)

• 2nd Concerto E flat-Major for Horn and Orchestra 

-First Edition -

Our source for the present first edition of this Horn Concerto was the autograph owned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna  (Signature VIII 15.274). You know maybe the first horn concerto of Teyber, edited by Friedrich Gabler and published in 1974 by Doblinger in Vienna.

The original title of the second concerto says: "Concerto per il Corno da Caccia". This was formerly also a common term for the French horn. The tone range of the horn part in E flat reaches c in the three-line octave. The former horn players often played in such a range and many concerti by W.A.Mozart use these high tones. Thus, the second horn concerto by Teyber is different from the first one due to its lower tone range. (The first concerto reaches g in the three-line octave. Because of this, only a few horn players performed this work - recording CD ).

Similar to the first concerto, the history of the second concerto is vague. The date of composition and its dedication is not known. The harmony of the work gives a hint. Teyber often writes notes and modulations that are foreign to the natural horn. Playing these so called stopped tones were possible by the new developed natural horn technique about 1780.  It can be assumed that several horn soloists such as Joseph Leutgeb (1732 - 1811) or Jacob Eisen (1756 - 1796) in Vienna played this concerto.

Because of the friendship Teyber and Mozart, the way of composition is near Mozart's music. (In the first concerto Teyber even quoted some bars of the horn quintet of Mozart KV 407.) More about the relationship between Anton Teyber and W.A.Mozart can be read on the following page: Bibliographical notes about Teyber.

This new edition is a wonderful, worthy and playable new discovery from the immediate area of Mozart. The concerto resembles in the grade of difficulty the second and forth horn concerto of Mozart.  

I would like to thank the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde for permission to publish this work. 

Note range of horn part

Horn in E flat

First side of horn part as Adobe Acrobat pdf-file

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