Frederick the Great was a prolific composer for this instrument, having been taught by the author of a 1752 treatise on playing it, Johan Quantz.
Frederick the Great was a prolific composer for this instrument, having been taught by the author of a 1752 treatise on playing it, Johan Quantz. Pierre Buffardin and Michel de la Barre were its leading French baroque composers, and the Hotteterre family was credited with developing its transverse variety. A solo one joins the strings in Bach's Orchestral Suite #2 in B Minor, figuring prominently in its Minuet and Badinerie. Traditionally the featured instrument in the concertos The Night, The Storm at Sea, and The Goldfinch by Vivaldi, this is, FTP, what woodwind instrument that does not use reeds and has such variants as the fife and piccolo?
Frederick the Great was a prolific composer for this instrument, having been taught by the author of a 1752 treatise on playing it, Johan Quantz.
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