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The Fantaisie was commissioned by and dedicated to Paul Taffanel in 1898 for the "Concours de flute", a flute competition held by the Conservatoire de Paris.Taffanel, who took over a flute class in 1893, regularly commissioned new compositions for the annual competition, and over time amassed a whole repertoire of technically challenging pieces suitable for the Conservatoire's requirements. [3]
This is a list of notable compositions for the flute (particularly the Western concert flute). Flute alone. C. P. E. Bach: Sonata in A minor (1763) J.S. Bach:
Galway was born in North Belfast as one of two brothers. His father, who played the flute, was employed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard until the end of the Second World War and spent night-shifts cleaning buses after the war, while his mother, a pianist, was a winder in a flax-spinning mill.
"Flute" is a song by Australian electronic DJ and record production duo New World Sound and Dutch DJ and Record producer Thomas Newson. The song was released in Australia as a digital download in November 25, 2013 through Doorn Records, Spinnin Records and Ministry of Sound Australia .
The Old Orange Flute (also spelt Auld Orange Flute) is a folk song originating in Ireland.It is often associated with the Orange Order.Despite this, its humour ensured a certain amount of cross-community appeal, especially in the period before the commencement of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and it has also been recorded by artists better-known for songs associated with Irish nationalism ...
Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) [1] is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 50 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres.He is one of the most recognized and respected jazz flutists in the history of jazz.
Georg Philipp Telemann's 12 fantaisies à traversière sans basse, [1] 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2–13, were published in Hamburg in 1732–33. An extant copy of the publication, conserved in Brussels, has a spurious title page reading Fantasie per il Violino senza Basso (Fantasias for Solo Violin). [ 1 ]
Bohuslav Martinů's Sonata for Flute and Piano, H. 306, was composed in 1945 in South Orleans, Cape Cod, [1] during the composer's five years in the USA following his escape from occupied France. [2] The work was composed for George Laurent who was the principal flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1918 to 1952. [ 3 ]