Flute, Piano
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HL.14040503
Flute
and Piano. Composed
by Francois Devienne.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Piano
Reduction. 60 pages.
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
#ETR001186. Published by
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
(HL.14040503).
UPC:
884088885472. 9x12
inches.
Fran
çois Devienne
(1759 - 1803) was a
French flutist and
composer, as well as a
founding professor at the
Paris Conservatory, which
was established in 1795.
During his lifetime,
Devienne
composed over 300 works,
most of which were scored
for Wind Instruments.
Devienne
belonged to a line of
French flutists and
composers who, over a
period of a century, had
adopted a German
transverse Flute and made
it a quintessentially
French musical
instrument. He followed
the path of predecessors
such as Michel de la
Barre and Michel Blavet
in establishing a French
school of Flute playing
and composition.
Devienne
wrotehundreds of works
for the Flute, as well as
a renowned tuition
manual. His 7th
Concerto is
thought by many to be the
best of the dozen or more
concertos that he
composed during his
lifetime. This concerto
was composed in or around
1787, shortly before the
French revolution. As in
Mozart's later works, the
passions of the time can
be clearly heard -
particularly in the
vigorous opening theme in
E minor. In contrast to
the stately Allegro, the
theme is gentle and
lyrical, yet intriguing,
with the Flute almost
mimicking bird
call.
