Volume 2 of a collection for the young Flautist which contains Piano accompaniment. Three centuries for Flute music selected from the Louis Moyse Collection.

Description Arranged with a newly composed Finale by Louis Moyse. The Viennese triumvirate Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn does not include Schubert despite the wealth of music he composed in his short life. His early Romantic style juxtaposes lyrical melodies with exciting drama throughout his compositions. Although originally composed for piano, this arrangement is as equally charming and musically effective. Songlist Impromptu In B Flat

Description Edited by Milton Wittgenstein with figured bass realised by Thomas Wilt. Songlist Sonata In B Flat Major Sonata In C Minor Sonata In F Major Hwv.369 Sonata In G Major Hwv.363b

In a letter dating from 1777 Mozart reported to his father from Mannheim that Johann Baptist Wendling principal Flautist of the famous Mannheim Orchestra had been approached by a wealthy Dutch businessman by the name of De Jean who was prepared to pay 200 gulden for three easy flute concertos and four flute quartets for his own use. Mozart accepted the commission. By the day before the Dutchman left Mozart had delivered only three of the quartets andtwo concertos for which he had been paid 964 gulden. The composer who was himself being pressed by his father to continue his own journey to Paris with his mother was full of excuses writing back to Salzburg on 14 February 'It is not surprising I have been unable to finish them for I never have a single hour's quiet here...Moreover you know I become quite powerless when I am obliged to write for an instrument I can't stand.' There is more than a hint of disingenuousness in Mozart's words for this was the height of the period during which he was being distracted from his work by his new-found love for the Mannheim singer Aloysia Weber. (He ultimatelymarried her sister Constanze.) If Mozart's dislike of the Flute was as great as he claimed there are few signs in the Flute Concerto No.1 in G major particularly in the expressive central Adagio ma non troppo. The outermovements are an Allegro maestoso and a concluding Rondo: Tempo di Menuetto. The work is scored for two oboes (replaced by flutes in the Adagio) two horns and strings. This Great Performers' Edition is edited byJames Galway.