SKU: FZ.50512
ISBN 9790049505123. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier is part of our French classical music collection. Sonates a deux flutes traversieres sans basse. Oeuvre huitieme. Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, Le Clerc, 1725. Presentation: Composition - Phrasing - Ornamentation. These six sonatas, technically fairly easy, make a useful approach to that particular style, a mixture of Italian writing and French ornamentation, often known as Les Gouts Reunis. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of a copy in the National Library of Paris (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.
SKU: HH.HH557-FSP
ISBN 9790708185727.
The first instrumental compositions Boismortier published were sonatas for two transverse flutes without bass, of which he wrote eight sets. They document both his development as a composer and the early evolution of the genre itself. The Six Sonates pour II Flutes traversieres Sans Baße Op. 47 (1733) — his last surviving set of such works — are ostensibly in the ‘Italian’ style. The dance-heavy format of the earlier ‘French’ sonatas has been abandoned, and structurally they reflect the influence of Telemann’s Sonates sans Basse à deux Flutes traveres [sic] (the second of their four movements is always a fugue). Set in tonalities comfortable for the baroque flute, these virtually unknown duets are expertly written for the one-keyed instrument and are richly rewarding to perform.
