Flute Music II
Pre-Classical
The second volume of our collection describes the road from the Baroque to Classicism. Along with sonatas with independent piano parts, composers continued to cultivate the sonata with thoroughbass accompaniment. However, this is the period in which melodies were gradually transformed from Baroque rhetoric to classical symmetry. The two sonatas by Johann Baptist Vanhal printed here represent both the earlier and later varieties. While the first appears in a Baroque guise, the second offers dynamic markings and differentiations in tempo and expression – signs of the new path that can be followed using the treasure trove contained in this Urtext edition.
About the Authors
Peter-Lukas Graf (Editor)
Prof. Peter-Lukas Graf was born in 1929 in Zürich. He studied the flute with André Jaunet (Zürich), Marcel Moyse and Roger Cortet (Paris). At the Conservatoire National he won first prize as a flautist and (under Eugène Bigot) the Conductor’s Diploma. He was awarded first prize at the international ARD Music Competition in Munich in 1953.
Following many years as a solo flautist in Winterthur and in the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, he spent a decade primarily conducting opera and symphony concerts. Since then he has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher and guest conductor all over the world and has released numerous records and CDs. Peter-Lukas Graf lives in Basel and has taught at the Basel Music Academy for over twenty years.
Ernst-Günter Heinemann (Editor)
Dr. Ernst-Günter Heinemann, born in 1945 in Bad Marienberg (Westerwald), completed his schooling in Gießen and read musicology, philosophy and German in Marburg and Frankfurt/Main and also for some time Protestant church music. He did his doctorate on “Franz Liszts geistliche Musik. Zum Konflikt von Kunst und Engagement”.
From 1978–2010 Heinemann worked as an editor at G. Henle Publishers (in 1978 in Duisburg, from 1979 onwards in Munich). He edited a great many Urtext editions for the publishing house, including “Das Wohltemperierte Klavier”, Volume 1 by Bach and all of Debussy’s piano works. In addition, he wrote essays on Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn and questions concerning general editing, as well as giving seminars on editorial practice for musicology students in Munich.