(1987) Mozart & Spohr: Concertante Works nbr_cd:1 Boccherini’s quintets are among the

Boccherini’s quintets are among the finest examples of classical chamber music and have rarely enjoyed the appreciation they deserve

used precise terminology to distinguish between the recorder (flauto and flautino) and the flute (flauto traverso)

That is certainly a different method of composition than Beethoven's

And yet there is a thread – albeit thin – that links all these works

The Stadtbibliothek

(1987) Mozart & Spohr: Concertante Works nbr_cd:1 Boccherini’s quintets are among theWhen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, accompanied by his mother, arrived in Paris in 1778, he was very optimistic about winning recognition and perhaps even a post which would free him from his duties which he so loathed at the archbishops court in Salzburg. Contact with influential personages was therefore very important. One of his most important contacts was with the Duke of Guines, a music loving diplomat and amateur flutist. Mozart enthusiastically