My transcription of the autograph score in the Austrian National Library. This manuscript lacks the final movement. I have used the Haslinger Piano 4 hands score and orchestrated that myself.

The scoring is for Lanner’s usual orchestra of the period but the horns play throughout and do not double trumpets. Percussion is just a triangle and bass drum. The scoring is generally much lighter than in his waltzes of the period.

It was perhaps a little foolhardy to put my orchestration right next to Lanner’s. There is a talent gap after all. Perhaps more so in this particular case as I didn’t want to restrict myself to Lannerish scoring in one respect. I used to play the horn. Given the title, you’d expect a bit of interesting horn work. Lanner writes very basic horn parts. These ones have a little bit more interest but they’re still pretty ordinary. I don’t know why that is. For example, the horn ha a four octave range. I can’t remember a single Lanner piece where he uses more than half of that. There’s very rarely any melodic work. Is it because his horn players had to double trumpet and were trumpet players who could play the horn a bit? Or perhaps because balls could be very long and restricting the horns to middle register work reduces the effects of fatigue. Anyway, could be worse. You could be playing the oboe. His oboe parts are really simple.

So, given the title and a six eight hunting type finale I might have gone over the top. Just a bit.

It’s a hobby, not a crusade or an academic exercise.

Apologies for the long gap between pieces. Not the best year chez CPE. Not likely to improve much short term.