Sheet Music for Flute

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...

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...

As did most of the galant composers attached to the Berlin court of Frederick the Great, Carl Heinrich Graun wrote a significant number of trios [trio sonatas] that exist in versions with different sc...

Skinner’s main publication was a set of six sonatas for flute, violin or solo harpsichord, which came out in 1752. These unpretentious pieces, then as now well suited to performance by amateurs or by...

Skinner’s main publication was a set of six sonatas for flute, violin or solo harpsichord, which came out in 1752. These unpretentious pieces, then as now well suited to performance by amateurs or by...

A programmatic work in two movements. Blessings is expressive and heart-felt, and Celebration is a joyful syncopated dance tune. For bass flute (or alto or C) and piano. 1998 NFA Newly Published Music...

The three woodwind sonatas of Camille Saint-Saëns for oboe, clarinet and bassoon were composed in the final years of his life. In his mid-80s and knowing that he did not have much time left to live, h...

Three of this opus's original four for violin and piano are presented here, edited for flute and piano: Allegro moderato, Larghetto, and Allegro appassionato.

Johann Martin Blochwitz (1687-1742), not a very well-known name even amongst flutists, initially studied in Leipzig before he was employed as an oboist (1711) and then flutist (1717) in the Dresden Co...