Schott Musik

In a brief prefatory note printed on the title page, the composer points out that these suites have all the necessary ornamentation and can be played as solo pieces without bass.

Due to the rediscovery of early music and the interpretation with original instruments, the baroque traverso flute is also enjoying increasing popularity. Hans-Martin Linde (- 1930), one of the most d...

The piece for solo flute, which is both atmospheric and virtuosic, reflects the composer's experience of the sea during a stay on the island of Samos. It is excellently suited as an effective concert...

The tonal language of the flute sonata, and of Wanek's chamber music in general, follows a personal line, apart from any musical taste of the time. Formal coherence, brevity, discreetness and wit are...

Charles (or Charles) Keller (1784-1855) was a gifted and esteemed flutist and composer who wrote a practical school of technique and performance for aspiring flutists. The fantasies presented here as...

In three movements entitled Nakts - Lidojums - Nakts, the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, born in 1946, uses onomatopoeic devices to describe a nocturnal flight of birds between dusk and dawn.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 6)

The 'Humoresques and Romances' are appealing literature for the advanced flute student. Catchy melodies with dance-like echoes (including tango and mazurka) make making music together a pleasure.

One of his last works, this virtuosic and highly demanding sonata is a must for all lovers of Françaix's sophisticated style.

This gently ironic and teasing work is also an extremely virtuosic hommage to his colleague and friend Aurèle Nicolet by the famous oboist Holliger. A compendium of contemporary avant-garde playing te...

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (1745-1814), son of the leader of the Royal Prussian court orchestra Franz Benda, was employed as a violinist in the court orchestra and was also featured there as a c...

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda (1745-1814), son of the leader of the Royal Prussian court orchestra Franz Benda, was employed as a violinist in the court orchestra and was also featured there as a c...

Johann Georg Tromlitz (1725-1805) was solo flutist of the 'Große Konzert' in Leipzig, the predecessor of the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra. He was not only a gifted performer but equally renowned as com...

Giulio Briccialdi was one of the most eminent flute virtuosos of the 19th century. Naturally, apart from one opera, his oeuvre consisted mainly of pieces for the flute. In numerous fantasies on excerp...

This recorder solo, with optional tubular bells accompaniment, is headed by a line from an ode by Klopstock, also quoted in his diary by the poet Hölderlin: 'Death, our saviour, ... softly approaches...

This recorder solo, with optional tubular bells accompaniment, is headed by a line from an ode by Klopstock, also quoted in his diary by the poet Hölderlin: 'Death, our saviour, ... softly approaches...

First published on the 50th anniversary of his death on September 8, 1999. 15-year-old Richard Strauss composed this piece (his only composition for flute and piano) in late April 1879.

These two unpublished pieces for flute and piano were written shortly after Paul Dessau's emigration to France and were not rediscovered until 1992, when Dessau's unpublished works were looked through...

Les ombres du vent - The Shadows of the Wind - is an impressionistic composition, written with a great sense of sound and of the possibilities of the flute. The Polish composer Krystof Zgraja wrote nu...

Les ombres du vent - The Shadows of the Wind - is an impressionistic composition, written with a great sense of sound and of the possibilities of the flute. The Polish composer Krystof Zgraja wrote nu...

Heinz Holliger, whose Sonate (in)solit(air)e (FTR 175) has been a standard work of contemporary flute literature for a long time, now presents two further compositions, with (é)cri(t) acting as a virt...