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basset horn

Musical woodwind instrument, a wide-bore alto clarinet pitched in F, invented about 1765 and used by Mozart in his Masonic Funeral Music (1785), for example, and by Richard Strauss. It was revived in 1981 by Karlheinz Stockhausen and features prominently as a solo in his opera cycle LICHT. Performers include Alan Hacker and Suzanne Stephens.



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