Charles Edward Horn (1786-1849) was an English composer, singer and teacher, represented in the Pristine catalogue under the short heading Horn. Born in London, he worked in theatre, song and opera in Britain and America.

Horn wrote stage works, songs and arrangements, and was also active as a performer. His name is especially associated with English song repertory and with the kind of vocal music that travelled easily between stage, parlour and recital.

His music is melodic, direct and grateful to the voice, with the clear outlines expected of early nineteenth-century song. In instrumental or arranged form, it belongs to the same cultivated light repertory heard in historic recital programmes.

This page identifies the catalogue heading cautiously, because the surname alone can be sparse. In this context Horn is best understood as part of the English song and theatre tradition rather than as a large symphonic figure.