The most extensive source of horn music from the first half of the 18th century is a manuscript collection of the Academic Chapel, now held at Lund University Library in Sweden. Many of the composers represented in it were connected in one way or another with the Dresden court, and it is possible that the copyist was a horn player who had visited the city.
List of Horn Concertos in the Lund Collection
The Wenster Collection lists 18 concertos for horn; in the collection's original numbering these are:
No. 1 Schultz – Concerto ex Dis for Horn, Traverse Flute, Violin and Basso → (ROM 018)
No. 2 Anonymous (Hoffmann) – Concerto ex Dis for Horn, 2 Oboes and Strings → (ROM 013)
No. 3 Quantz (C. G. Fischer?) – Concerto ex Dis for Horn and Strings
No. 4 Anonymous – Concerto ex Dis for Horn, 2 Oboes and Basso → (ROM 019)
No. 5 Förster – Concerto ex Dis for Horn and Strings → (ROM 341)
No. 6 Anonymous – Concerto for Horn, Oboe d'amore and Basso → (ROM 020)
No. 7 Graun – Concerto ex D for Horn, Oboe d'amore and Basso → (ROM 181)
No. 8 Graun – Trio ex D for Horn, Violin and B. c. → (ROM 182)
No. 9 Quantz – Concerto for Horn, Oboe and Strings → (ROM 021)
No. 13 Anonymous (Hampel?) – Concerto ex D for Horn and Strings → (ROM 184)
No. 14 Röllig – Concerto ex Dis for Horn and Strings → (ROM 022)
No. 15 Röllig – Concerto ex D for Horn and Strings → (ROM 023)
No. 16 Graun – Concerto ex D for Horn and Strings → (ROM 024)
No. 17a Reinhardt – Concerto ex Dis for Horn and Strings → (ROM 025)
No. 17b Gehra – Concerto ex D for Horn and Strings → (ROM 026)
No. 1 – Concerto ex Dis by Schultz
for Cornu concertato, Flauto traversiere, Violino obligato and Basso · First edition
The concerto is highly virtuosic in its upper register: the highest note is the sounding as''. In this respect it is not unique but rather typical for its time. A distinctive feature is the pairing of a flute with the horn — a scoring that is quite rare, found elsewhere in works by Telemann or in Amon's chamber music.
The identity of Herr Schultz cannot be established with certainty, though a composer connected to the Dresden court or the Saxon region is very likely. A candidate is Heinrich Schultz, listed as a musician of the Polish Chapel in the Dresden court and state calendar of 1729. The SLUB Dresden also preserves three violin concertos by a composer named Schultz.
