20th century
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
20th century
21st century
Solo repertoire
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Alto flute
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Weigl Vally
Aitken, Robert
Arnold, Malcolm
Barber, Samuel
Bartók, Béla Viktor János
Beaser, Robert
Bennet, Richard Rodney
Berio, Luciano
Bernstein, Leonard
Bloch, Ernest
Bolling, Claude
Boulanger, Marie-Juliette
Bozza, Eugène Joseph
Brown, Elizabeth
Brun, Georges
Burton, Eldin
Büsser, Henri
Camus, Pierre
Carter, Elliott
Casella, Alfredo
Clarke, Ian
Colquhoun, Michael
Copland, Aaron
Corigliano, John
Dahl, Walter Ingolf Marcus
Damase, Jean-Michel
Davidovsky, Mario
Debussy, Claude
Del Tredici, David
Denisov, Edison
Dick, Robert
Dohnányi, Ernő
Dutilleux, Henri
Enescu, George
Feld, Jindřich
Ferroud, Pierre-Octave
Foote, Arthur
Foss, Lukas
Françaix, Jean
Fukushima, Kazuo
Gaubert, Philippe
Gieseking, Walter
Gordeli, Otar
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grovlez, Gabriel
Guarnieri, Mozart Camargo
Hanson, Howard Harold
Harsányi, Tibor
Harty, Hamilton
Heiss, John
Heith, David
Higdon, Jennifer
Hindemith, Paul
Honegger, Arthur
Hoover, Katherine
Hosokawa, Toshio
Hovhaness, Alan
Hüe, Georges Adolphe
Ibert, Jacques
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Ittzés, Gergely
Jacob, Gordon
Jemnitz, Sándor
Jirák, Karel Boleslav
Jolivet, André
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid
Kennan, Kent Wheeler
Kornauth, Egon
La Montaine, John
Liebermann, Lowell
Martin, Frank
Martino, Donald
Martinů, Bohuslav
Messiaen, Olivier
Mihalovici, Marcel
Milhaud, Darius
Mouquet, Jules
Mower, Mike
Muczynski, Robert
Nielsen, Carl
Offermans, Wil
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Poulenc, Francis
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Rivier, Jean
Rota, Nino
Roussel, Albert
Rutter, John
Saariaho, Kaija
Sancan, Pierre
Schulhoff, Erwin
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Tailleferre, Germaine
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Taktakishvili, Otar
Varèse, Edgar
Vasks, Pēteris
Weigl, Vally
Williams, Ralph Vaughan
Yun, Isang
"Oiseau de la vie" for solo flute
Vally Weigl: “Oiseau de la vie” (Bird of Life) for solo flute was written in 1979 and it was one of the final works of Vally Weigl.
Each of the movements is dedicated to birds singing at different stages of the day, from night to dawn, noon, and dusk. The monodic writing avoids exaggerated chromatism and extreme contrasts, suggesting instead clear tonalities that are often unchanged throughout the piece.
2022, Naxos
1. Sweet Bird of the Night 2. Joyful Bird at Dawn 3. Enchanted Bird at Noon 4. Bird's Farewell to the Seting Sun
Vally Weigl (1894 – 1982) was Austrian – American composer and music therapist. Born in Vienna, she studied piano with Richard Robert, composition with Karl Weigl, and musicology with Guido Adler at Vienna University. She married her professor Karl Weigl in 1921 and emigrated to the US in 1938 after the National Socialists seized power in Austria. In exile, Vally began to compose more extensively and from the middle of the 1950s developed her method of musical therapy which she practiced at the New York Medical College. Her compositions, strongly linked to nature were intended both as educational material for disabled children and for concert performance.