Detroit Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Third horn
Application deadline
September 3, 2013
Audition date
October 14 through December 9, 2013
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(Posted on August 19, 2013; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo Repertoire
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
  • Mvt. I
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I
First horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. III
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Third horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. III
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. III
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. II
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Opening–C
  • N–P
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • Solo after 28 to 30
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 29 before 31 to 31
Section playing (finals only)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture
Possible sight-reading
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