Carl Eisner, a horn virtuoso of the 19th century, received his education in Dresden. Although he was court musician in St.Petersburg until 1836 he found time to travel through Europe as a horn virtuoso. Performances with his own compositions are proved to be presented also in Dresden, Vienna, Prague and Leipzig. His warm tone and his brilliant technology was praised in the AMZ (Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung) and there was noted that he still played with the natural horn. Eisner however mastered also the new valve horn as mentioned from other concert reviews and transferred the tonal advantages of the natural horn to the technically better valve horn. Eisner moved to the court chapel in Dresden 1836 and got the title as a chamber musician in 1853. He became teacher for horn in the first conservatory of music which was founded in 1856 by him among others.
2 pieces for horn and Piano op.16
Le Repos & Resignation
The two pieces for horn and the piano are enchanting "palm court music" in the most positive sense. Resignation was arranged also for horn and orchestra and was as well a popular encore. The source copy for the first edition of these works.
