The University Library Lund in Sweden keeps the most extensive source for horn music from the first half of the 18th century. The music is a handwritten collection of the Academic chapel. Many of the composers therein had somehow connections to the court in Dresden. It is possible that the copier was a hornist who visited Dresden.
This collection Wenster contains 18 concertos for horn - and not 17 how it is always said.
The original numbering of the collection:
No.1
Schulz
Concerto ex D sharp for horn, flauto traverso, violin and basso
No.2
Hoffmann
Concerto ex D sharp for horn, 2 oboes and strings
No.3
Quantz (C.G. Fischer?)
Concerto ex D sharp for horn and strings
No.4
Anonym
Concerto ex D sharp for horn, 2 oboes and basso
No.5
Förster
Concerto ex D sharp for horn and strings
No.6
Anonym
Concerto for horn, oboe d`amore and basso
No.7
Graun
Concerto for horn, oboe d`amore and basso
No.8
Graun
Trio for horn, violin and basso continuo
No.9
Quantz
Concerto for horn, oboe and strings
No.10
Knechtel
Concerto ex D
No.11
Knechtel
Concerto ex D sharp
No.12
Förster
Concerto ex D sharp
No.13
Anonym (Hampel)
Concerto ex D
No.14
Röllig
Concerto ex D sharp for horn and strings
No.15
Röllig
Concerto ex D for horn and strings
No.16
Graun
Concerto ex D for horn and strings
No.17a
Reinhardt
Concerto ex D sharp for horn and strings
No.17b
Gehra
Concerto ex D for horn and strings
No. 11 Johann Georg Knechtel - Concerto ex Dis major for Horn, 2 Violins, Viola and Basso
Johann Georg Knechtel worked at the Dresden court orchestra in the period 1734-1773. About his background until now little could be determined.
To 1756 was Johann Georg Knechtel active as a horn player in the chapel, first with the second Horn players Andreas Schindler, from 1737 to Anton Joseph Hampel (1711 - 1771). His work is in the heyday of the Dresden Kapellmeister Johann Adolf Hasse (1699 - 1783), the rich in his operas for the Dresden court, the horn players served with solo work.
