Organ concertos, Op. 4 (Handel) had already been established during his one-year position as cathedral organist in Halle in 1702. Handel's organ concertos thus have a special place in his oeuvre. They paved the way for Mozart and Beethoven, who like Handel achieved fame in their lifetimes as composers and performers of their own concertos. In the sinfonias of some of his cantatas, Johann Sebastian Bach had already introduced concerto movements for organ and orchestra. However, Bach's organs in both Weimar and Leipzig were large organs with double keyboards and pedals, powerful instruments that could only dominate a baroque orchestra. Bach's organ writing in the
Horn Concertos (Mozart) or 1786 (Humphries 2000, 87). Given the duration of the concertos (no more than 20 minutes each) it is quite common to find these horn concertos on the same CD, or in boxed sets of Mozart's concertos for wind instruments or even all his concertos. The Naxos Records CD "Complete Works for Horn & Orchestra" includes, besides the concertos, three rondos for horn and orchestra completed by musicologists. When a CD has only one of the horn concertos, it is typically paired with another concerto for a wind instrument also by Mozart. Horn Concertos (Mozart) The Horn Concertos by Wolfgang