The French horn is so versatile. Heroic, romantic, scary, mysterious — you name it, the horn can play that part. And it’s a sociable instrument: We love to play together.

F or years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous ...

Because my life is very easy. I am a musician and I want to play concerts; the rest is private for me. When you go on stage, you are in public, with a lot of people looking at you. I hate public life.

But look closer still and you'll clock a suave French horn player…and his toes. Felix Klieser has been described as a virtuoso and has performed all over the world, but born without arms he ...

Live music was no more. Patrick Milando could draw no other conclusion. But maybe he could pivot. It was a summer day in 2020, a peak of the coronavirus pandemic, and Mr. Milando, a French horn ...

In the German city of Göttingen, where Felix grew up "there was one music school and at the music school there was one horn teacher". Felix enrolled and a life-time of problem solving began ...