page_title: Symphony No. 31 (Haydn)
hierarchical_section_title: Symphony No. 31 (Haydn)
caption_attribution_description: English: Natural horn, French, by Marcel-Auguste Raoux, Paris, about 1826, inscribed Raoux, brevet, seul Fournisseur du Roi, Rue Serpente Paris. Brass and silver mounts, inside of the bell painted in green and gilt lacquer. The instrument is fitted with a series of changeable medial crooks within the outer coil, so that it could be played in a number of different keys. Photographed at the V&amp;A museum, London, 02-Jan-06.
context_page_description: Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 31 in D major, Hoboken I/31, was composed in 1765 for Haydn's patron Nikolaus Esterházy. It is nicknamed the "Hornsignal" symphony, because it gives a prominent role to an unusually large horn section, i.e. four players. Probably because of its prominent obbligato writing for the horns, in Paris, the publisher Sieber published this symphony as a "symphonie concertante" around 1785.
context_section_description: Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 31 in D major, Hoboken I/31, was composed in 1765 for Haydn's patron Nikolaus Esterházy.  It is nicknamed the "Hornsignal" symphony, because it gives a prominent role to an unusually large horn section, i.e. four players. Probably because of its prominent obbligato writing for the horns, in Paris, the publisher Sieber published this symphony as a "symphonie concertante" around 1785.
caption: Valveless natural horn in the V&A Museum, London.
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