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Q.
Who left his position as Principal Horn of a major symphony orchestra to become horn
professor at Indiana University saying, "I would rather quit several years too soon
than 10 minutes too late"?
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Q. Which famous composer said, "That Strauss is a truly
detestable fellow, but when he plays you can't be angry with him"?
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Q. What great horn player made the statement, "God made some
people Horn players; others are not so fortunate"?
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Q. What famous player wrote, in a letter to his former student Anton
Horner, "Composers like Wagner, and those of today like Strauss and Mahler, really
require a little motor in the horn to play the parts; therefore I retired"?
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Q. What great German conductor/composer wrote, "Never let the
horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too
loud"?
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Q. What famous German Romantic composer said, "The sound of the
horn is the soul of the orchestra"?
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- Q. Identify the author of this quote:
- "O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
- And thinner, clearer, farther going!
- O sweet and far from cliff and scar
- The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!"
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Q. Name the source of this quote: "I lifted my eyes and there I
saw four horns."
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- Q. Identify the author and source of this quote:
- "The horn, the horn, the lusty horn,
- Is not a thing to laugh or scorn."
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A. Richard Wagner talking about Franz Strauss
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A. Anton Horner
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A. Friedrich Gumbert
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A. Richard Strauss in "The Golden Rules Inscribed in the Album of a Young
Conductor," 1927
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A. Robert Schumann
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A. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (in "The Princess" - 1847) used by Benjamin
Britten in his "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings"
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A. Zechariah 1:18 (translation: The New English Bible)
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A. William Shakespeare in As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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