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Vienna, March - April,1816. Franz Schubert writes his Sonatas for pianoforte accompanied by a violin. 1816 was a particulary disappointing year for Schubert. A modest music teacher's employment in Lai...

The 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' is a piece from Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio Solomon, written in 1748 and performed for the first time on March 17, 1749. The arrangements presented here can b...

Das Oratorium 'Salomo' entstand im Sommer 1748 und wurde am 17.3.1749 uraufgeführt. Ein wirkungsvolles Stück, gerade für den Beginn eines Quartettprogramms. Ausser einigen barocken Dreiklangsbrechunge...

The Zigeunerweisen (gipsy airs), a famous and popular virtuoso piece from violin literature, required some modification with regard to their performance on the flute. Nevertheless the harmonies, melod...

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote the Suite presented here in 1884, on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the Danish writer Ludwig Holberg. Originally composed for the piano, Grieg...

The instrumentation in this Concerto, originally written for flute and strings with basso continuo, was changed. The solo part, however, totally corresponds to that of the original. A choir-like perfo...

It is assumed Giuseppe Torti was born in Milan and lived during the 18th century. In this case, 'Concerto' is a rather misleading term as the piece really is a quartet. The interesting composition use...

Vienna, March - April, 1816. Franz Schubert wrote his Sonatas for pianoforte accompanied by a violin. 1816 was a particulary disappointing year for Schubert. A modest music teacher's employment in Lai...

Vienna, March - April,1816. Franz Schubert writes his Sonatas for pianoforte accompanied by a violin. 1816 was a particulary disappointing year for Schubert. A modest music teacher's employment in Lai...

These duets are easy and uncomplicated pieces by a 18th century composer who is hardly known today. The duets, presented here for the first time in a new edition, are arrangements made by an unknown a...

Verdis Oper Nabucco gehört nicht zuletzt wegen ihrer impliziten politischen Bedeutung zu seinen erfolgreichsten. Insbesondere der Chor 'Va pensiero' avancierte zum Volkslied, ja fast zur Nationalhymne...

In 1807, Matiegka rearranged Beethoven's Serenade in D major op. 8 for violin, viola and violoncello and made it into a trio with guitar - a version which soon became very popular at the time. This ne...

Naturally, two-part texture played an important role for the selection of the preludes contained in this volume, i.e. only those pieces were chosen that will not lose their musical substance when arra...

The Fantasia Sentimentale L'Appassionata op.5 was composed in Cape Town in 1904 and was dedicated to the Dutch flutist Edward De Jong. The piece was De Lorenzo's first composition specifically written...

Can Chopin's piano music be arranged for the flute? The arranger himself calls his work an experiment. It is quite interesting how Cheyron changed the Préludes for four flutes and thus created an arra...

This sonata is quite mysterious. It was composed around 1736 and has been handed down in the form of a copy made by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach's authorship has been contested rep...

Mozart composed this sonatina for piano and violin (or flute) in London when he was eight years old. The arrangement of the Allegro presented here is quite easy and can be rehearsed in a short time. I...

Camillo Schumann's (1872 - 1946) catalogue of works includes more than 300 compositions of which only 60 have been published in printed form (mainly organ pieces, but none of his great chamber music w...

Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722-1794) was vice kapellmeister and musical director at the court of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach in Bayreuth and later in Ansbach. His compositions show him to...

In his lifetime, A. F. Doppler (1821 - 1883) was a famous composer and solo player. The performances in which he played duets with his brother Karl, also a flutist, made them famous all over Europe. Q...

Trying to find Haydn pieces for the flute will be pretty much disappointing. He wrote only 6 pieces for the flute. The piece presented here is based on the piano sonata in A flat major, Hoboken XVI, n...

Le composizioni dello svizzero Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1952), che visse metà della sua vita nel XIX secolo e l’altra metà nel XX, sono più vicine al tardo Romanticismo che al Modernismo. Le sue prime op...

This issue presents one of the most important works of flute literature in a revised edition. The editor comes up with a new interpretation of the handwritten source of the piece. In turn, this leads...

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), was born in Naples and went to Lisbon in 1720, where he was appointed kapellmeister at the court of the King of Portugal, Joao V. Additionally, he was the teacher of in...

The title Latin meets classic describes the basic idea behind this quintet: the composer tried to make his favorite Latin American rhythms from the 20th century meet with European rhythms from the bar...