Carl Eisner, a horn virtuoso of the 19th century, received his education in Dresden. Although he was court musician in St.Petersburg until 1836  he found time to travel through Europe as a horn virtuoso. Performances with his own compositions are proved to be presented also in Dresden, Vienna, Prague and Leipzig.

His warm tone and his brilliant technology was praised in the AMZ (General Musical Newspaper) and there was noted that he still played with the natural horn. Eisner however mastered also the new valve horn as mentioned from other concert reviews and transferred the tonal advantages of the natural horn to the technically better valve horn.

Eisner moved to the court chapel in Dresden 1836 and got the title as a chamber musician in  1853. He became teacher for horn in the first conservatory of  music which was founded in 1856 by him among others. 

The pieces from Eisner published by Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition:

• 2 pieces de salon op.16 for horn and piano

• 1st sextet & 2nd sextet  for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassetthorn and bassoon

• Album for horn and piano

1st Sextett & 2nd Sextet  for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassetthorn and Bassoon

Carl Eisner dedicated the first sectet to the Dresdner Tonkünstlerverein. certainly, he was one of the members and played the horn part in this sextet. It can be assumed that the second sextet was also written for this ensemble but there is no dedication mentioned. Boch sextets are composed about 1854 to 1870. The composer expressly allocated the horn part for valve horn / chromatic horn. Concerning the compostional qualities of these until now unpublished sextets, they are comparable with the quintets of Reicha. Virtuos parts, excellent handling of each instrument and the exact and extensive dynamical remarks prove the real quality of the composer Carl Eisner.

• 1st Sextet  for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassetthorn and Bassoon

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• 2nd Sextet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassetthorn and Bassoon

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• Album for horn and piano

The Album for Horn and Piano contains a subsumptiopn of various pieces of music by Carl Eisner which have not been published till today. The manuscripts of these works are kept in the library of Dresden.

• L`anniversaire (The Birthday) - Eisner noted himself "une pensée" (one thought)
• 2 Etudes with piano accompagnment
• Capriccio pour Cor chromatique et pianoforte sur des Themes finoises et Suedoises - Eisner works out Swedian and Finnish themes which he might get to know during his stay in Russia.
• "Der Blinde" (The blind man)  -  This is an arrangement by Eisner of the work of Carl Keller "Der Blinde (eine Fantasie) mit Begl. d. Pianoforte oder d. Guitarre"  for voice and piano, published 1840 by Peters.

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