Flute sonata
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A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute
and piano
, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque
period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo.
This work is an arrangement of Gould's Sonata for Bassoon and Piano.
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
and piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo.
List of Flute Sonatas
- George AntheilGeorge AntheilGeorge Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. A self-described "Bad Boy of Music", his modernist compositions amazed and appalled listeners in Europe and the US during the 1920s with their cacophonous celebration of mechanical devices.Returning permanently to...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1951)
- Malcolm ArnoldMalcolm ArnoldSir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
- Sonata for flute and piano, op.121 (1977)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel BachCarl Philipp Emanuel Bachright|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...
- Sonata in A minor for solo flute (H. (Helm) 562/Wq. (Wotquenne) 132) (1747)
- 14 Sonatas for flute and continuo
- Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
- Sonatas for keyboard with flute or violin, op. 16
- Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
- Sonata in B minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030Sonata in B minor for flute or recorder and harpsichordSonata in B minor for flute or recorder and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach is a sonata in 3 movements:* Andante* Largo e dolce* PrestoThe existing autograph manuscript dates from after 1735, when Bach led the Leipzig Collegium...
- Sonata in E-flat major for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1031Sonata in E-flat major for flute or recorder and harpsichordSonata in E-flat major for flute or recorder and harpsichord, probably by J. S. Bach , is a sonata in 3 movements:* Allegro moderato* Siciliano* Allegro-Media:- External links :...
- Sonata in A major for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1032Sonata in A major for flute or recorder and harpsichordSonata in A major for flute or recorder and harpsichord by J. S. Bach is a sonata in 3 movements:* Vivace* Largo e dolce* Allegro-Media:...
- Sonata in C major for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1033Sonata in C major for flute or recorder and basso continuoThe Sonata in C major for flute or recorder and basso continuo may have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach is a sonata in 4 movements:* Andante – Presto* Allegro* Adagio* Menuet 1 – Menuet 2...
- Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034Sonata in E minor for flute or recorder and basso continuoSonata in E minor for flute or recorder and basso continuo by J. S. Bach is a sonata in 4 movements:* Adagio ma non tanto* Allegro* Andante* AllegroThe basso continuo can be provided by a variety of instruments...
- Sonata in E major for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1035Sonata in E major for flute or recorder and basso continuoSonata in E major for flute or recorder and basso continuo by J. S. Bach is a sonata in 4 movements:* Adagio ma non tanto* Allegro* Siciliano* Allegro assaiThe basso continuo can be provided by a variety of instruments...
- Sonata in G minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1020
- Sonata in B minor for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1030
- Arnold BaxArnold BaxSir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
- Sonata for flute and harp (1928)
- Lennox BerkeleyLennox BerkeleySir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1978)
- Pierre BoulezPierre BoulezPierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
- Sonatina for flute and piano (1946) (1 serialSerialismIn music, serialism is a method or technique of composition that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as one example of...
movement)
- Sonatina for flute and piano (1946) (1 serial
- Robert J. Bradshaw
- Sonata No. 2 In My Collection for flute and piano
- Edison DenisovEdison DenisovEdison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1960)
- Sonata for flute and guitar (1977)
- Sonata for flute solo (1982)
- Sonata for flute and harp (1983)
- Pierre Max DuboisPierre Max DuboisPierre Max Dubois was a French composer of classical music. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected. He brought the ideas of Les Six, of which his instructor was a member, into the middle 1900's. This group called for a fresh artistic perspective on music...
- Sonata for flute and piano
- Henri DutilleuxHenri DutilleuxHenri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...
- Sonatina for flute and piano (1943)
- Jindřich FeldJindrich FeldJindřich Feld was a Czech composer of classical music.-Biography:Feld was born into a musical family, his father a well-known professor of violin at the Prague Conservatory which followed the tradition of Otakar Ševčík, the master of Jan Kubelík. His mother was a violinist...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1957)
- Glenn GouldGlenn GouldGlenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach...
- Sonata for Flute and Piano (1950).
This work is an arrangement of Gould's Sonata for Bassoon and Piano.
- George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
- Sonata for flute in E minor, Op.1 No.1A
- Sonata for flute in E minor, Op.1 No.1B
- Sonata for Flute in G major Op.1 No.5
- Sonata for Flute in B minor Op.1 No.9
- Hans Werner HenzeHans Werner HenzeHans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
- Sonatina for flute and piano (1947)
- Paul HindemithPaul HindemithPaul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1936)
- Bertold HummelBertold HummelBertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...
- Sonatina for flute and piano, op.107a (2001) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_107A.html
- Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
- Sonata in D, Op.50 (c1810–14)
- Sonata in A, Op.64 (c1814–15)
- Philipp JarnachPhilipp JarnachPhilipp Jarnach was considered in the 1920s to be one of the most important composers of modern music....
- Sonatina for flute and piano, Op.12 (1919)
- Sándor JemnitzSándor JemnitzSándor Jemnitz, also known as Alexander Jemnitz , was a Hungarian composer, conductor, music critic and author.-Biography:...
- Sonata for flute and piano, Op.27 (1930–31)
- David Johnstone
- Sonata for Flute solo (1998, rev. 2008)
- Fantasy-Sonatina for Flute and Piano (pub. 2005 Creighton's Collection)
- Paul JuonPaul JuonPaul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...
- Sonata for flute and piano in F, Op.78 (1924)
- Sigfrid Karg-ElertSigfrid Karg-ElertSigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for organ and harmonium.-Biography:...
- Sonata for flute and piano in B flat, Op.121 (1918)
- Charles KoechlinCharles KoechlinCharles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1913)
- Jean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie LeclairJean-Marie Leclair l'aîné, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder, was a Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school...
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.1 in B major, book 1, No.2
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.2 in E minor, book 1, No.6
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.3 in E minor, book 2, No.1
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.4 in C major, book 2, No.3
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.5 in G major, book 2, No.5
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.6 in B minor, book 2, No.11
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.7 in E minor, book 4, No.2
- Sonata for flute and harpsichord No.8 in G major, book 4, No.7
- Bohuslav MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
- Sonata for flute and piano, Halbreich 306 (1945)
- Darius MilhaudDarius MilhaudDarius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
- Sonatina for flute and piano, op.76 (1922)
- Ignaz MoschelesIgnaz MoschelesIgnaz Moscheles was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.-Sources:Much of what we know about Moscheles's life...
- Sonata for flute and piano in A, op.44 (1819)
- Sonata for flute and piano in G, op.79 (1828)
- Jules MouquetJules MouquetJules Mouquet was a French composer.- Biography :Jules Mouquet studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Xavier Leroux. In 1896, he won the prestigious Rome Prize with his cantata Mélusine. He went on to win another two composition prizes, the Prix Trémont and the Prix Chartier...
- La Flûte de Pan, Sonata op.15
- Gabriel PiernéGabriel PiernéHenri Constant Gabriel Pierné was a French composer, conductor, and organist.-Biography:Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz in 1863. His family moved to Paris to escape the Franco-Prussian War. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, gaining first prizes for solfège, piano, organ, counterpoint and fugue...
- Sonata for flute and piano, op.36 (1900)
- Willem PijperWillem PijperWillem Pijper ; Zeist, 8 September 1894 - Utrecht, 18 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher.-Life:Pijper was born at Zeist, near Utrecht, on 8 September 1894 of strict Calvinist working-class parents. His father, who sometimes played psalm accompaniments on the harmonium,...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1925)
- Walter PistonWalter PistonWalter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
- Sonata for flute and piano (1930)
- Francis PoulencFrancis PoulencFrancis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
- Flute sonataFlute Sonata (Poulenc)The Flute Sonata by Francis Poulenc, for flute and piano, was written in 1957. It is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, an American patron of chamber music. Poulenc composed it for the flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and he and Rampal gave the première in June 1957 at the...
, Schmidt 164 (1956–7)
- Flute sonata
- Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
- Flute sonata in D, op.94 (1943)
- Einojuhani RautavaaraEinojuhani RautavaaraEinojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...
- Sonata for flute and guitar (1975)
- Carl ReineckeCarl ReineckeCarl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...
- Undine, Flute sonata op.167 (1882)Sonata UndineSonata Undine is a flute and piano sonata written by Carl Reinecke that is based on the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. It is his opus 167, written in 1882.This sonata is normally associated with the Romantic genre...
- Undine, Flute sonata op.167 (1882)
- R. Murray SchaferR. Murray SchaferRaymond Murray Schafer is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World...
- Sonatina for flute and harpsichord (or piano) (1976)
- Erwin SchulhoffErwin SchulhoffErwin Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist.-Life:Born in Prague of Jewish-German origin, Schulhoff was one of the brightest figures in a generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1927)
- Leo Smit
- Sonata for flute and piano (1939-43)
- Otar TaktakishviliOtar TaktakishviliOtar Taktakishvili was a Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and writer of music.Otar Taktakishvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Conservatory, while still been a student he composed the official anthem of the Georgian SSR. By 1949 he became a Professor of the Tbilisi Conservatory and the ...
- Sonata for flute and piano (1968)
See also
- SonataSonataSonata , in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata , a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era...
- FluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
- Flute concertoFlute concertoA flute concerto is a concerto for solo flute and instrumental ensemble, customarily the orchestra. Such works have been written from the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day...
- Flute repertoryFlute repertoryFlute repertory is the general term for pieces composed for flute and often played by flautists. The following lists are not intended to be complete, but rather to present a representative sampling of the most commonly played and well known works in the genre...
- Bassoon sonataBassoon sonataA bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century. Occasionally, sonatas written for bassoon can also be performed on cello...
- Clarinet sonataClarinet SonataA clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire...
- Piano sonataPiano sonataA piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement , two movements , five or even more movements...
- Violin sonataViolin sonataA violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.-A:*Ella Adayevskaya**Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano...
- Viola sonataViola sonataThe viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:...
- Violoncello sonata