Beethoven, L. - Largo for Alto Flute or C Flute and piano

TITLE: Largo for Alto Flute or C Flute and piano COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven PUBLISHER: Progress Press ED/ARR: Theobald Boehm, Andrea Graves, Tammie Walker INSTRUMENTATION: Alto Flute or C Flute, Piano DESCRIPTION: Flutists universally recognize Theobald Boehm (1794-1881) as the creator of the modern concert flute in C, but few know that his favorite flute was the modern alto flute in G, which he created in 1850. In his treatise Flute and Flute Playing, Boehm writes:My ideal of tone - large, sonorous, and powerful, admitting of every gradation from pianissimo to fortissimo - is still the tone of my silver flute in G. The effect I have repeatedly produced, when playing it, although now I am an old man of 78 years, is such that I only regret that I did not make this flute forty years ago. To promote his alto flute on concert tours, he arranged twenty-three pieces for alto flute in various chamber settings from the music of composers including Bach, Beethoven, Haydn