[1] The composition was written as a friendly gesture for the hornist Joseph Leutgeb (his name is mentioned a few times in the score), and Mozart probably did not consider it as particularly important, since he failed to enter it to the autograph catalogue of his works.

1 (one a draft by Mozart, the other a complete version by Franz Xaver Süssmayr): they would be different composers' edits to a Leutgeb original.

They bring warmth and light colouring to this most attractive work, and in spite of unadventurous support they partner the bassoons in many typical phrases.

One example is Dennis Brain's November 1953 recording of the four horn concertos on EMI with The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

2018: Javier Bonet (horn); Munich Radio Orchestra, Hermann Baumann (conductor), ARSIS.