The English horn is an alternative name for which orchestral instrument?
Cor anglais High German name "engellisches Horn", meaning "angelic horn". Because "engellisch" also meant "English" in the vernacular of the time, the "angelic horn" became the "English horn". In the absence of any better alternative, the curved, bulb-belled tenor oboe then retained the name even after the "oboe da caccia" fell into disuse around 1760. The name first appeared on a regular basis in Italian, German, and Austrian scores from 1741 on, usually in the Italian form "corno inglese." The earliest known orchestral part specifically for the instrument is in the Vienna version of Niccolò Jommelli's opera "Ezio" dating from 1749, where
Horn (instrument) the Bohemian virtuoso Giovanni Punto (Jan Václav Stich), a master of hand-horn technique. In the early nineteenth century, Carl Maria von Weber, in addition to giving the horn a prominent orchestral place in the overtures to the operas "Oberon" and "Der Freischütz", composed a spectacularly difficult Concertino in E Minor which, amongst other things, includes an early use of multiphonics, produced by humming into the instrument while playing. Gioachino Rossini exploited the instrument's association with hunting in a piece called "Rendez-vous de chasse" for four "corni da caccia" and orchestra (1828). All of these works were written for the natural