Musicology Annotation << Back Initial Training to Plains the Horn Furukin Aleksey Initial training in playing the French horn is a mandatory stage in the development of a wind instrument player, the main task is to lay a solid foundation on which the further development of the student will be based. Here the student receives basic information about the instrument, the mouthpiece, basic concepts about the position of the body to adapt to the instrument, the position and operation of the labial apparatus, movement. The task of the teacher at the initial stage is to create the correct skills, to determine the path for the further development of all components of the performance of the future horn player. Keywords: horn, initial training, labial apparatus, breathing, tongue attack, general position. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.12.2024.1408 Pp. 29-33.