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,...
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...
While the quartet for flute and strings in C major (c. 1827) by itinerant flute virtuoso Louis Drouët belongs to a genre that had seen its heyday in the late 1770s and early 1780s, this composition sh...
Boismortier's Six Concerto pour les Flutes-Traversieres, Violons, ou Haubois; avec la Baße, Op. 21, were published in early 1728. They are the second set of concertos to be composed by a Frenchman, th...
Boismortier's Op. 21 was intended for a flute, a violin or second flute, and basso continuo (with a musette or recorder proposed as alternatives to the flute in Concerto No. 3), but the deliberately g...
These works contain some of Boismortier's finest and most accomplished music. Written in the 'Italian' style, they are an extension of his sonata writing for one or two instruments and continuo, and y...
