Repertoire Guidelines for French Horn
Students should be working on, or able to play music at the level indicated by these selections. These are guidelines for repertoire. The student does not necessarily need to play these specific pieces. Students should perform either two shorter pieces (or movements) or one longer piece.
Levels A & B
Very early pieces, student playing for less than a year
Level 1
- First Recital Series
- French Horn Solos Level 1
- Lamb Classic Festival Solos Vol. 1 and 2
- Lamb Solos Sounds Levels 1-3
- Lawton The Young Horn Player Vol. 1
- Pearson Standard of Excellence Festival Solos Bk. 1
- The Canadian Brass Book of Easy Horn Solos
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- First Recital Series
- Buchtel Meditation
- Jones First Solos for the Horn Player
- Lamb Solo Sounds Levels 1-3
- Pearson Festival Solos Bk. 1 and 2
- Proust Scenes Paysannes
- Telemann Minuet
- Voxman Concert and Contest Collection
Level 3
- First Recital Series
- Corelli Sarabande and Gavotte
- Jones Solos for the Horn Player
- Lamb Classic Festival Solos Vol. 1
- Mozart Andante and Rondeau
- Nelhybel Prelude and Chorale
- Pearson Festival Solos Bk. 2
- Stout Master Solos – Intermediate Level
- Voxman Concert and Contest Collection
Level 4
- Butts Ballad for Horn
- Cherubini Sonatas
- Corelli Sonata
- Gliere Intermezzo
- Jones Solos for the Horn Player
- Lamb Solo Sounds for French Horn Level 3-5
- Saint-Saens Romance Op.36
- Strauss Andante
- Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile
- Voxman Cocert and Contest Collection
Level 5
- Bittenger Four Island Fantasies
- Chabrier Larghetto
- Handel Sonatas
- Jones Solos for the Horn Player
- Loillet Two Pieces
- Mozart Concertos
- Poulenc Elegie
- Proust Premiere Sonatine
- Senaille Sarabande & Allemande
- Stamitz Concerto for Horn
- Strauss Nocturno
- Weigel Maine Sketches
Level 6
- Arnold Fantasy for Horn
- Beethoven Sonata Op. 17
- Bozza En Foret, Sur les Cimes
- Cherubini Sonatas
- Danzi Concerto
- Gliere Concerto Op. 91
- Haydn Concertos
- Heiden Sonata for Horn and Piano
- Hindemith Horn Sonata
- Mozart Concertos
- Persichetti Parable for Solo Horn
- Rosler-Rosetti Concerto
- Rossini Prelude, Theme and Variations
- Saint-Saens Morceau de Concert
- Schumann Adagio and Allegro Op. 70
- Strauss Concertos
- Wilder Sonata No. 3 for Horn and Piano
- Winteregg Blue Soliloquy