Southern Music Woodwind

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Antonin¦Dvorak composed¦the quartet in F Major, op. 96 The American in the summer of 1893 during his¦summer vacation in Spillvale, Iowa. From 1892-1895, Dvorak served as director of the National Conservatory of Music in NYC. He had been interested in American¦Music and felt that Native American and Afro-American music could inspire an¦American Music distinct from…

The first¦question is why transcribe a work such as Mozart’s String Quartet KV 387, which is so perfectly rendered in the original, for another instrumental ensemble?¦The only answer for wind players is to have the opportunity to play and learn¦from this great work directly. Mozart¦loved the wind instruments, but wrote for them rather differently than…

This is surely one of the most performed Telemann works. It has become a staple in the flute performance repertoire.

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