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The Reiter brothers, Josef and Xaver, were true heroes of the horn, having filled solo positions in the Munich Opera, orchestras in Sondershausen, Hannover, Karlsruhe and the Bayreuth Festival. After coming to America, they were solo horns of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Symphony, Orchestra of San Francisco, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the first season of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and finally, the New York Philharmonic with Gustav Mahler and Josef Stransky!