Sheet Music for Flute Solo

Eine Auswahl aus den Perlen Alter Meister.

Eine Auswahl aus den Perlen Alter Meister.

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 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...

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...

With more than 500 printed works, Popp is probably one of the most hard-working flute composers of all times. However, only a few of his flute tutors are in use today, while his concertant music has f...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

There are still doubts about whether or not the two sonatinas (originally meant for piano in G major and F major) are genuine. Due to their low level of difficulty, they are part of the standard reper...

The compositions by the Swiss Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1952) who lived half of his life in the 19th century and the other half in the 20th century, are related more to the late Romantic period than to th...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...