Sheet Music for Flute

Joseph Haydn wrote the Symphony Hob. I:24 in D major in 1764, when he was Vice-Kapellmeister in the service of Prince Nicholas I Esterházy and before he was appointed First Kapellmeister in 1766. In t...

Gottlieb Heinrich Köhler was born in Dresden. After his apprenticeship with the Stadtmusikus of Bautzen, he worked as a flute and piano teacher in his hometown before finding employment as an 'art vio...

Jean-Louis Tulou, a pupil of Johann Georg Wunderlich, was one of the leading flutists of his time as a soloist at the opera of his native Paris and a professeur at the Conservatoire. His students incl...

A student of Antonin Reicha at the Paris Conservatoire, Eugène Walckiers, a native of the French part of Flanders, ranks among illustrious French composers: Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod or César Fra...

Theobald Böhm became the first flutist of the royal Isartortheater in 1816, two years later a member of the royal court orchestra of his native Munich and from 1830 also its first flutist. Concert tou...

Trained on many instruments by the town piper of Schleusingen near his birthplace Erlau in Thuringia, Kaspar (Gaspard, Caspar) Kummer served in various capacities in the service of the Duke of Saxe-Co...

Xavier Boisselot studied composition at the Conservatoire in Paris. In 1836 he won the 1er Grand prix de Rome with the cantata Velléda. His opera Ne touchez pas à la reine premiered in 1847, followed...

The Italian Giulio Briccialdi learned to play the flute mainly from his father. His virtuoso career began early and he received a position as flute teacher with the Count of Syracuse in Sicily. He tra...

Anton Ortner worked as an organist, choirmaster, singing teacher and church musician in his native Munich as well as in Augsburg, where he lived until his death. As a composer, he wrote mainly sacred...

American flutist Henry Clay Wysham was born in Baltimore. He played solo flute in the Baltimore and Boston Symphony Orchestras. As an author, he published an essay 'The Evolution of the Boehm Flute' i...

Little more is known about Edmond Sténosse than his date of birth: April 7, 1839. From 1875 until after 1900, some 20 works by Edmond Sténosse - mainly for flute - appeared in print, some of them publ...

Raised in a family of organ builders and organists, Charles-Marie Widor's path as an organist was preordained. In 1870 he moved from his native Lyon to Paris and became titular organist at Saint-Sulpi...