French fairy tales for you and for me/Jacques-Martin Hotteterre

We continue telling the french baroque fairy tale stories and today our guest is Liane Sadler, an australian traverso player currently based in Basel.

https://www.lianesadler.com/

Today we are going to explore some flute duos by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. He was and still remains an important figure in the flute world.

Hotteterre owed his fame largely to his talent for playing the flute, an instrument for which he wrote a number of pieces, significantly  extending the repertory for the instrument. In addition, he played the bassoon, oboe and musette. Hotteterre was also an internationally celebrated teacher to  aristocratic patrons. He wrote one method for the transverse flute,  recorder, and oboe, published in 1707, as well as a method for the  musette, published in 1737.  His L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière was published in 1719. It was Europe's first flute manual and was used widely.

"The music of the modern flute  begins with this author, the most celebrated flutist of the end of the  seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Hotteterre  was Chamber Musician to the King of France, and was the first one to  play a transverse flute in the orchestra of the Paris Grand Opera. This extremely rare work is the earliest known book of instructions, in any language, for the transverse flute."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Martin_Hotteterre

The scores are here:

Suite in G major, Op.6

https://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/9/92/IMSLP280589-PMLP240505-Hotteterre2d2.pdf

Passacaille, page 12

https://ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/d/de/IMSLP112012-PMLP228814-hotteterre_suites_a_dois_dessus_sem_baixo.pdf

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