Fugues from Op.20 No.5 and No.6 by Franz Joseph Haydn
Arranged for Flute Quartet by John W. Pratt (originally for strings)
Scores and Parts for Flute 1, Flute 2, Alto Flute, and Bass Flute, PDF $21.75
Haydn’s quartets through Op.20 made him the father of the string quartet no less than of the symphony. Three of the finales of the Op.20 quartets are exuberant fugues with multiple subjects (Haydn “soggetti”) ... four subjects in No.2, two in No.5, and three in No.6. John Pratt has arranged these lively fugues for flute quartet; this edition includes two of the fugues, those from Op.20 No.5 and No.6, while the Op.20 No.2 fugue has been published separately. A group of four flutes is well suited to the kittens-on-the-keys feel of Haydn’s Op.20 fugues, and they are a blast to play. For the arrangements in this publication, the No.5 fugue has been transposed up a major third and the No.6 fugue up a minor third to bring them into better range for flutes.
Scores, 20 pages; Flute 1 parts, 4 pages; Flute 2 parts, 4 pages; Alto Flute parts, 4 pages; Bass Flute parts, 4 pages; Total,46 pages.
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