Two flutes & organ continuo SKU: HH.HH464-FSP
Composed by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Edited by Michael Elphinstone. Two Flutes & Organ Continuo. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH464-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH464-FSP). ISBN 9790708146735.
The individual works are expertly crafted, and collectively they contain much charming music, including two excellent three-part fugues and several dances that surely typify popular music heard in the French capital in the late 1730s. Since they were evidently written for amateur musicians, the Op. 78 sonatas are technically accessible and set in comfortable tonalites for the one-keyed flute; this makes them particularly attractive for today’s students of the instrument.