Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 on the Natural Horn

I have been enjoying this month of learning about various instruments that were around during the Regency period and that Georgiana might have at least heard in her fictional lifetime. 🙂 For our last installment of music lessons pulled from Georgiana’s Music Folder, we have the natural horn and a concerto from Mozart. The first video tells a bit about how the horn is played, and the second video has the concerto without interruptions for instruction.

I have never had Georgiana play the horn in a story, nor do I currently have any plans for her to play one. It just doesn’t seem like her sort of instrument. However, I could possibly see her cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam playing it. It sounds like him to me. What do you think?

Below is an excerpt from a story where Georgiana does not play a lead role, but she does play a major supporting role. The in this scene from Christmas in Gracechurch Street, Darcy is once again shopping with his sister, and she is hinting/teasing that she thinks he is more than just friends with Miss Elizabeth.

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Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

5 thoughts on “Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4 on the Natural Horn”

  2. I have enjoyed these music posts [instructions and performances]. The talent and perfection of hitting those notes are doubly difficult as there were no valves or keys.

    As for the horn… yes, our dear Colonel seems like the sort to play that instrument. In several JAFF stories, Darcy played the violin. I imagine when the Fitzwilliam family got together, there would be a concert with the various family members playing some sort of instrument [pianoforte, violin, horn, harp, recorder, etc.]. What a fun scene.

    I just had a flash… as you know, those can be dangerous… some silly boy telling Lydia that playing a flute or recorder will make her lips better for kissing. LOL!! Mrs. Bennet would wonder why Lydia suddenly wanted to learn how to play an instrument. That would drive Mr. Bennet further into his study with her trying to learn while Mary banged away on her piano. LOL! Sorry… didn’t mean to wonder off on a tangent.

    Thanks for all the research you did for these amazing posts. It really lets us know of the instruments at hand for our beloved characters. I have a whole new appreciation for that knowledge. Blessings, stay safe, and healthy.

    1. Haha! You know back when I was in Junior high band, we had a student instructor (college age) who joked that trumpet players were the best kissers and that was why he played that instrument. So I could see her taking up an instrument or lookings for a beau who played a particular instrument. That is a fun idea. 🙂

      1. You are welcome to it… of course. I’d love to read it. You know, I heard that same story about trumpet players. Either it is widely accepted or it is the truth. I never dated a trumpet player so I can not say. LOL!

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