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 in the University Library of Lund, Sweden. Many of the composers represented in it were connected in one way or another with the Dresden court. The copyist may well have been a horn player who had visited that city.
List of the Horn Concertos in the Lund Collection
The Wenster collection lists 18 concertos for horn. The numbers follow the original numbering of the collection:
- No. 1 Schultz – Concerto ex Dis for horn, transverse 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. 10 Knechtel – Concerto ex D
- No. 11 Knechtel – Concerto ex Dis → (ROM 377)
- No. 12 Förster – Concerto ex Dis
- 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. 9: Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)
Concerto ex Dis major for Corno concertato, Oboe, 2 Violins, Viola and Basso
The Lund collection contains two concertos bearing the name of Quantz. Concerto No. 9 is listed in the Breitkopf catalogue (Part III, 1763) as a concerto by Quantz, although in F major and without mentioning the oboe.
For Concerto No. 3 from Lund there is likewise an entry with an incipit in the Breitkopf catalogue (Supplement XIV, 1783), but there C. G. Fischer is named as the composer. Since Quantz already appears as the copyist on the title page of the Hoffmann concerto, it is quite possible that Fischer really was the composer of No. 3 and Quantz merely the copyist. RISM, too, lists Fischer as the composer.
Concerto No. 9 from Lund, however, is in all likelihood genuinely by Quantz.