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Maltese composer Joseph Vella has the horn as bookends on a long career. One of his earliest works is the 1968 Trio Concertante for horn, violin, and piano. By contrast, his next work to receive a premiere (as of this writing) will be The True Face of God for four horns, timpani, and organ, composed in 2016. Roughly in the middle lies his Soliloquies for solo horn from 1996.https://robertgpatterson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/JosephVella.jpg912608