Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 – 1773) was a German flutist, flute maker and Baroque music composer. He composed hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, and wrote On Playing the Flute, a treatise on flute performance. This etude is from his book Fantasie and Preludes, the original is written in the key of G (for flute) but I transposed and edited in C and Eb for our convenience…
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Here a great performance of Emmanuel Pahud playing in the original key:
