Spartiti classica

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...

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 edition presented here is an adaptation of the so-called second lute suite whose original instrumentation, however, still remains uncertain. Judging by formal aspects, this piece has more in commo...

L'edizione qui presentata è un adattamento della cosiddetta seconda suite per liuto, la cui strumentazione originale, tuttavia, rimane ancora incerta. A giudicare dagli aspetti formali, questo brano h...

Johann Sebastian Bach's music has always entailed rearrangements as each and every solo player or ensemble wants to perform these extraordinary pieces. The Orchestra suite presented here really calls...

The composer starts his work by quoting the first two bars of the introduction. Zgraja himself said that surprisingly, it were the figures of accompaniment of the original which inspired me the most....

Oldrich Flosman (geboren am 5. April 1925 in Pilsen, gestorben am 12. Oktober 1998 in Prag) studierte von 1944 bis 1946 am Prager Konservatorium bei Karel Janacek und von 1946 bis 1950 an der Akademie...

Niels Peter Jensen (1802-1846), blind since his childhood, played both the organ and the flute in Copenhagen and composed numerous pieces for the flute, but also for the piano and the stage. He was a...

Originally short piano pieces, composed for entertainment but yet with a melancholic touch. The arrangements for both the flute and the piano contain no real technical difficulties. Some pieces are es...

François Couperin (1668 - 1733) worked at the court of Louis XIV in Versailles at a time when musicians fervently disputed the question whether the brilliant ornate Italian style or the natural French...

In his 1st flute quartet, Swiss composer Franco Cesarini (born in 1961) is mainly trying to combine musical and didactic contents. In the progress of its musical development, the harmonic dissonances...

Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881) started his career as a solo flutist in various opera orchestras in which he changed and extended the flute parts according to his abilities which soon turned him into It...

First drafts for this work were made during the composer's first journey to Sicily in the late 80's. But it should last until as late as 2003 for the piece to become what it is now. For a major part,...

The musical works of Frederick the Great (1712-1786) were not permitted to be published during his lifetime. They have still not all been published to this dayand their study can be considered as inco...

Jules Demersseman (1833 - 1866) was one of the best flutists of his time. He also wrote about 150 works for flute most of which are now forgotten. The sonata in C minor composed in the classical sonat...

Schumann's Scherzo from Symphony No.2 In C has been arranged for Flute Quintet by Trevor Wye. Scored for 3 Flutes, Alto Flute In G and Bass Flute.

In addition to some 70 operas, Domenico Cimarosa's (1749 - 1801) compositions include lithurgical music, but also chamber music as well as 32 one-movement sonatas for harpsichord. The musical roots of...

Auf der Suche nach einem Instrument, das dem Bedürfnis tiefer, 'kräftiger und sogleich sonorer Flötentöne' entsprach, baute der geniale Flötenbauer Theobald Böhm 1858 die erste Altflöte. Für dieses ne...

Erinnerung An Mozart is a sparkling virtuoso Flute solo inspired by the music of Mozart, written for flautist Andras Adorjan and based upon ideas and themes of The Magic Flute.

Joseph Küffner (1776 - 1856) entstammt einer Musikerfamilie. Er selbst war erfolgreicher Violinist, Orchesterleiter und Militärmusikdirektor. Seine Werke waren zu seinen Lebzeiten als Unterhaltungsmus...

The second Flute concerto by Mozart is one of the most played on this instrument. The publisher conflates three different cadences, created in the first half of the 20th Century. The cadence of the fl...

An elegantly restrained air, which shifts between sweet gracefulness and the gentle melancholy of a lyrical Slavic melody, is juxtaposed with the light-footed gaiety of motoring ostinato tarantella ph...