Author: Giovanni Punto
Alternate names: Jan Václav Stich
Born: 28 September 1746
Died: 16 February 1803
Bio: A Czech horn player (more correctly, he played the cor basse) and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Punto>Wikipedia</a>).