12 Fantasias for Solo Flute (Telemann)
Musical work by Georg Philipp Telemann / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georg Philipp Telemann's 12 fantaisies à traversière sans basse,[1] 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2–13, were published in Hamburg in 1732–33. An extant copy of the publication, conserved in Brussels, has a spurious title page reading Fantasie per il Violino senza Basso (Fantasias for Solo Violin).[1] The set is one of Telemann's collections of fantasias for unaccompanied instruments, the others being a set of thirty-six for harpsichord [scores], also published in 1732–33, and two sets published in 1735: twelve for solo violin and twelve for viola da gamba.[2]
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Telemann's solo flute fantasias are alone in the Baroque repertoire to include movements seemingly impossible on flute: fugues (fantasias 2, 6, and 8–11), a French overture (fantasia 7) and a passacaglia (fantasia 5).[3] In 2012, an arrangement for viola solo was published by Euprint.[4] In this arrangement, through the use of double stops, some many-voiced parts appear as real polyphonic pieces.