Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy
La journée suisse

Serenade No. 1 for Horn (or Flute/Violin) and Pianoforte

Instrumentation Horn and Piano
Optional Instrumentation Flute and Piano
Composer Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy
Edition Piano Score and Part(s)
Publisher Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition
Order no. ROM437

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Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Classical Era)
Accompaniment: Piano

The horn player Frederic Duvernoy (1765 - 1838) belonged to the founding generation who established the fame of French horn players and passed it on in their own school. He joined the orchestra of the Comedie-Italienne as a horn player in 1788. In 1797, he moved to the Paris Opera, where he worked as a solo hornist from 1799. In 1801, he and other solo horn players were released from normal opera duties so that he could devote himself more fully to soloistic tasks. From this time onwards, he played in the "Chapelle Musique", which was re-established by Napoleon Bonaparte, who is said to have been an admirer of Duvernoy. From 1795 he was also a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire de Musique (alongside 8 other horn players at times). Various schools of horn playing developed there. While there had always been a division into 1st and 2nd horn, the hornist Rudolphe, for example, was in favor of a comprehensive use of the entire range, while Kenn and especially later Dauprat advocated a clear division into cor alto and cor basso. Duvernoy took the middle way in the truest sense of the word; although he also divided the horn into high and low and recommended mouthpieces of different sizes in his printed horn school, he propagated the "cor mixte" in the solo. This meant abandoning the particularly high and low notes, rarely leaving the middle range (around 1 ½ octaves) and placing more emphasis on singing quality. Duvernoy retired in 1816, but held the position of solo hornist in the Chapelle Musique until 1830. He died in Paris on July 19, 1838. Duvernoy's works (12 concertos for horn and numerous chamber works) were not only printed in Paris, they were also published in Germany by publishers such as Simrock and Breitkopf.
Serenade No. 1 for pianoforte and horn (or flute/violin)
This work was composed in a series of divertissements, fantasies and serenades around 1820. The work was inspired by a trip to Switzerland and describes a day in Switzerland. There is an alternative part for flute or violin for the horn part.