Flute Concerto in B minor

The Flute Concerto in B minor was composed by musicologist and composer François-Joseph Fétis in 1869, when he was 85 years of age and two years before his death.[1] The concerto was written specifically for the Böhm flute, analogous to the standard concert-styled flute found in contemporary Western orchestras. The work features a highly florid flute section, a rather uncommon phenomenon at the time as the flute was both a new instrument in France and seen as more so a background instrument in late-19th century orchestration. Thus, the fact that it plays a leading role makes this concerto a rarity and one of the early examples of the flute gaining a serious presence as a solo instrument.

The concerto originally featured an extended cadenza included with movement three, although no such documentation survives in the present.[2]

Form

The concerto utilizes the typical structure for a concerto, consisting of three movements which features a lively beginning, a slower middle section, before returning to the first movement's tempo.

  1. Allegro
  2. Adagio
  3. Allegro ma non troppo

References
  1. "Klassik des Tages: Das Flötenkonzert in h-Moll von François Joseph Fétis". Epoch Times (in German). 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  2. "Konzert h-moll für Flöte und Orchester von Francois-Joseph Fétis im Alle Noten Shop kaufen". www.alle-noten.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-27.
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