Johann Andreas Amon

• Two sextets E major and F major for two obligatory horns and violin, viola, violoncello and trombone

These two sextets were written about 1810, dedicated to the "freres Zwirzinas". These are the sons of the Franz Anton Zwirzinas (1751 -- 1825), hornist at the Wallerstein Court. The sons Franz Xaver Zwirzina (1786 -- 1838) and Joseph Anton Alois Zwirzina (*1788- ?) learned the horn, too, and were also hornists at Wallerstein like their father. Unusual is the use of the trombone in these sextets because there is not any concrete piece of evidence for trombonists at the court of Wallerstein. The trombone moreover was a seldom occupied instrument in the chamber music of this epoch. The trombone also can alternatively be replaced by a double-bass. There is also a complete part for this instrument composed and kept in the collection Oettingen-Wallerstein (signature HR III 4 1/2 2° 422).

Both sextets are edited for the first time - first edition!

note range of the 1.horn part

1.Horn in E & F

first page of the score in Adobe Acrobat pdf-file

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