Spartiti classica

Nach seinem Stuttgarter Debakel war Carl Maria von Weber ( geb. am 18. Nov. 1786 in Eutin, gest. am 4./5. Juni 1826 in London) über Mannheim und Heidelberg im April 1810 in Begleitung seiner Freunde G...

Selected by Atarah Ben-Tovim

Sebbene la chitarra classica sia principalmente uno strumento solista, suonare in un ensemble — che si tratti di un duo, un trio, un quartetto, un ensemble misto o un'orchestra — offre numerosi vantag...

Harri Wessman's Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) for flute and guitar bears the first symptoms of his later style, the texture being softly dissonant. In an old mythological dictionary the composer foun...

Koskelin's work for flute dating from 2003 was first performed by Mikael Helasvuo.

This is one of the best-known pieces of classical music in the world today and probably the piece most identified with Tchaikovsky. It has been used extensively in many different contexts and has beco...

This vigorous 'Russian Dance' appears in Act 2 of The Nutcracker ballet. Tchaikovsky utilized the Cossack Trepak dance of his homeland for this exciting movement, contrasting effectively with the more...

Francois Devienne's music has long been highly rated for its grace and balance. One of the first professors of flute at the new Conservatoire in 1795, Devienne's Flute Concertos played by the composer...

Sonata 1 opens with a movement marked 'Sostenuto' and expresses to perfection the melancholy gracefulness associated with B minor. A vivacious Allegro follows, kaleidoscopic in its ever-changing rhyth...

Scheibe's three sonatas for flute (or violin) and obbligato harpsichord were published by Haffner in the late 1750's, but were probably composed much earlier; they contain a significant quantity of el...

Boismortier's final surviving set of trio sonatas, the [IV] Sonates pour deux flutes traversieres avec la basse, Op. 78, dates from late 1739 or early 1740. With this set the composer has, in a sense,...

Towards the end of his long life the organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789), resident in the Baltic port of Stettin (today, Szczecin in Poland), achieved a degree of fame as a composer through t...

Boismortier's numerous musical achievements include composing the first (and probably the only) concertos for two unaccompanied melody instruments, namely his Op. 38: VI Concerto pour 2 Flutes-travers...

Trio sonatas by Italian composers from the period around 1730 that specify flutes for both upper parts are quite rare. Among the earliest known are these three concise four-movement sonatas of only mo...

These sonatas reveal a great independence of thought in melodic writing that pushed the boundaries of flute technique further than before. They consist of highly ornamented, virtuoso, parts for the fl...

The first instrumental compositions published by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier - whose posthumous reputation was built around his having been the first French composer to take up Italian concerto form -...

The flute sonatas, now published in a modern edition for the first time, are all three-movement works. They bubble with life and have moments of great drama, particularly in the development sections o...