Friedrich Adolph Borsdorf 25 December 1854 - 15 April 1923), was a German player of the French horn.
He studied the French horn at Dresden Conservatoire, and played in a military band.
[2] Borsdorf and his colleague Franz Paersch had learned to play on wide-bore horns that were made in Germany.
He was also in the orchestra when Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel was given its first English performance in 1896, with the composer conducting.
There was also another problem for him: World War I broke out in 1914 and there was a lot of anti-German feeling in England.