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Multiphonics in the early 19th century? Yes, it is truly possible that these sounds were notated for the very first time in 1815 by Carl Maria von Weber, in his Horn Concertino, op.45. This concert piece, whose form is designed totally freely, is regarded as one of the most demanding of all works for horn and orchestra. While the con fuoco passages following the slow introductory sections are of breakneck difficulty, the soloist later finds himself in the centre of the work with the cadenza in the form of a recitative - at the end of which the famous multiphonic passages occur.