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Alto flute

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Hindemith Paul

Aitken, Robert

Amirov, Fikret

Amlin, Martin

Amram, David

Andriessen, Jurriaan

Arnold, Malcolm

Arrieu, Claude

Auric, Georges

Babbit, Milton

Bacchus, Peter

Bacri, Nicolas

Baker, Michael Conway

Baksa, Robert

Barber, Samuel

Barrere, Georges

Bartók, Béla Viktor János

Baton, René-Emmanuel

Beaser, Robert

Bennet, Richard Rodney

Berg, Gunnar

Berio, Luciano

Bernofsky, Lauren

Bernstein, Leonard

Bloch, Ernest

Bolling, Claude

Bon, Maarten

Bonis, Mel

Boughton, Rutland

Boulanger, Marie-Juliette

Boulez, Pierre

Bourdin, Roger

Bournonville, Armand

Bowen, Edwin York

Bozza, Eugène Joseph

Bréville, Pierre

Brings, Allen

Brotons, Salvador

Brown, Elizabeth

Brun, Georges

Burkhard, Willy

Burton, Eldin

Büsser, Henri

Camus, Pierre

Carmichael, John

Carter, Elliott

Casella, Alfredo

Chaynes, Charles

Clarke, Ian

Colgrass, Michael

Colquhoun, Michael

Copland, Aaron

Corigliano, John

Cortese, Luigi

Currier, Sebastian

Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus

Damase, Jean-Michel

Davidovsky, Mario

De Lorenzo, Leonardo

Debussy, Claude

Del Tredici, David

DeLaney, Charles Oliver

Delerue, Georges

Denisov, Edison

Dèsbriere, Jacques

Dick, Robert

Dinicu, Grigoraș

Dodgson, Stephen

Dohnányi, Ernő

Dubois, Pierre Max

Dukas, Paul

Durey, Louis

Dutilleux, Henri

Enescu, George

Farkas, Ferenc

Feld, Jindřich

Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

Flothuis, Marius

Folio, Cynthia

Foote, Arthur

Foss, Lukas

Françaix, Jean

Fukushima, Kazuo

Gade, Jacob

Gál, Hans

Gaubert, Philippe

Genzmer, Harald

George, Thom Ritter

Ghidoni, Armando

Gieseking, Walter

Glass, Philip

Glière, Reinhold

Golovin, Andrei

Gordeli, Otar

Grier, Lita

Griffes, Charles Tomlinson

Grinblat, Romuald

Grovlez, Gabriel

Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo

Gubajdulina, Sofia

Hahn, Reynaldo

Hailstork, Adolphus

Halphen, Fernand

Hanson, Howard Harold

Harberg, Amanda

Harbison, John

Harsányi, Tibor

Harty, Hamilton

Heiss, John

Heith, David

Henze, Hans-Werner

Higdon, Jennifer

Hindemith, Paul

Holliger, Heinz

Holmboe, Vagn

Honegger, Arthur

Hoover, Katherine

Hosokawa, Toshio

Hovhaness, Alan

Hüe, Georges Adolphe

Hurel, Philippe

Ibert, Jacques

Ichiyanagi, Toshi

Ittzés, Gergely

Ives, Charles

Jacob, Gordon

James, Bob

Jemnitz, Sándor

Jirák, Karel Boleslav

Jóhannsson, Magnús Blöndal

Jolivet, André

Jongen, Joseph

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid

Kay, Ulysses

Kelterborn, Rudolf

Ķeniņš, Tālivaldis

Kennan, Kent Wheeler

Kennedy, Martin

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Khachaturian, Aram

Kocsár, Miklós

Kodaly, Zoltan

Koechlin, Charles

Kornauth, Egon

Kraft, Leo

Krzywicki, Jan

Kupferman, Meyer

La Montaine, John

Lauber, Joseph

Lavista, Mario

Lee, Eugene

Leeuwen, Ary van

Levinson, Gerald

Liebermann, Lowell

Loudova, Ivana

Mack, Dieter

Mahler, Gustav

Maresz, Yan

Martin, Frank

Martino, Donald

Martinů, Bohuslav

Meltzer, Harold

Messiaen, Olivier

Mihalovici, Marcel

Milhaud, Darius

Mouquet, Jules

Mower, Mike

Muczynski, Robert

Nielsen, Carl

Norby, Erik

Nordenstrom, Gladys

Offermans, Wil

Olsen, Carl Gustav Sparre

Paget, Daniel

Perle, George

Petrovics, Emil

Piazzolla, Astor

Piston, Walter

Poulenc, Francis

Prokofiev, Sergey

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Ran, Shulamit

Raphael, Günter

Rautavaara, Einojuhani

Ravel, Maurice

Reynolds, Verne

Riegger, Wallingford

Rivier, Jean

Rodrigo, Joaquin

Rota, Nino

Rotaru, Doina

Rouse, Christopher

Roussel, Albert

Rutter, John

Saariaho, Kaija

Sancan, Pierre

Schmidt, Ole

Schocker, Gary

Schulhoff, Erwin

Schwantner, Joseph

Sciarrino, Salvatore

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Sibelius, Jean

Smit, Leo

Tailleferre, Germaine

Takemitsu, Tōru

Taktakishvili, Otar

Tansman, Alexandre

Tomasi, Henri

Tower, Joan

Uébayashi, Yuko

Varèse, Edgar

Vasks, Pēteris

Weigl, Vally

Weinberg, Mieczysław

Wilder, Alec

Williams, Ralph Vaughan

Yi, Chen

Yun, Isang

Zgraja, Krystof

Sonata for Flute and Piano

By Hindemith Paul

Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Flute and Piano was written in Berlin in 1936 by commission of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in Washington. The Sonata was premiered in 1937 by flutist Georges Barrère and the pianist Jesús María Sanromá at the Library of Congress in Washington. The Sonata was written during a time when Hindemith's music was practically banned by the Nazis as "atonal and noisy", thus facilitating his departure to Switzerland in 1938.

The work is noted for its linear counterpoint and rhythmic vitality. Unlike the lush French sonatas of the same era, Hindemith’s work is "dry," intellectual, and focuses on the equality between flute and piano.
1936 was a dark and transformative year for Hindemith. In Germany, the Nazi regime had officially banned his works, labeling him a "cultural Bolshevist" and his music as "Entartete Musik" (degenerate music). Consequently, Hindemith began looking for opportunities abroad, making his first trip to Turkey to reorganize their musical education system.
This work was one of the first in Hindemith’s ambitious project to write at least one sonata for every orchestral instrument.
In 1936, Hindemith was finalizing his major theoretical treatise, The Craft of Musical Composition (Unterweisung im Tonsatz). The Flute Sonata serves as a practical application of his new harmonic theories, specifically his focus on Series 1 and 2 (relationships of intervals based on acoustics rather than traditional major/minor scales).

Ulla Miilmann

Kristoffer Hyldig (piano), 2020, live at The Danish Radio Concer Hall for the online Galway Festival

1. Heiter Bewegt, 2. Sehr Langsam, 3. Sehr Lebhaft - Marsch

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Mark Sparks

Clinton Adams (piano), 1998, Summit Records / Orchard

1. Heiter Bewegt

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Mark Sparks

Clinton Adams (piano), 1998, Summit Records / Orchard

2. Sehr Langsam

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Mark Sparks

Clinton Adams (piano), 1998, Summit Records / Orchard

3. Sehr Lebhaft - Marsch

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Emmanuel Pahud

Eric Le Sage (piano), 2021, Warner Classics

1. Heiter Bewegt

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Emmanuel Pahud

Eric Le Sage (piano), 2021, Warner Classics

2. Sehr Langsam

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Emmanuel Pahud

Eric Le Sage (piano), 2021, Warner Classics

3. Sehr Lebhaft - Marsch

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Hindemith Paul

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was German composer, violinist, violist and conductor, one of the main figures of so-called New Objectivity (art movement against expressionism, implying more practical engagement with the world).  Since 1927 Hindemith taught at the Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. However, later in 1930's, when Hindemith music was banned by Nazis as "atonal and noisy" he had to leave for Turkey where he helped to establish Turkish State Opera and Ballet, thus greatly influencing musical life in Turkey.

In 1940 he founded the Yale Collegium Musicum in US making great impact on many notable students. Mostly known compositions: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, opera Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), song circle Das Marienleben (The Life of Mary), and Der Schwanendreher (The Swan Turner) for viola and orchestra.