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Flute Repertoire

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This list contains 246 pieces in seven different categories of difficulty from easiest (level 1) to most difficult (level 7). These pieces are graded according to my personal opinion. Even I can not agree with myself as to which difficulty level all of the pieces should be most appropriately placed. Please take the list and use it if you think it useful. Just click on the level to go to that area.

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Level 1- Level 2- Level 3- Level 4- Level 5- Level 6- Level 7- List of Publishers

 

Level 1:

Bach, J.S. (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Gavotte: 40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 34 (SCH)

  • Minuet: 40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 22 (SCH)
    Suzuki Flute School vol.1, no. 16 (SUM)

  • Minuet (arr. from Suite no. 2 in b minor) BWV 1067
    Album of Classical Pieces vol. 1 (INT)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 2, no. 5 (SUM)

  • Musette
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 37 (SCH)

Beethoven, Ludwig Van (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Allegretto and Variation (arr. from Sonata for Piano and Flute)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 2 (SUM)

  • Scotch dance
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 9 (SCH)

  • Romance
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 39b (SCH)

Dandrieu, Jean-Francois (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Les Fifres
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Demersseman, Jules (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Neapolitan melody
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Faure, Gabriel (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Berceuse from Dolly
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Fleming, Robert 

  • Almost waltz(JAY)

Frank, Marcel 

  • Evening reverie (KEN)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald 

  • Minuet from Orpheus Album of 30 Classical Pieces vol. 2 (INT)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 2 (SUM)

Handel, George, Friderick (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Bourree
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 38 (SCH)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 1, no. 17 (SUM)

Haydn, Franz Joseph (L.Moyse, ed.)

  • Allegro
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 30 (SCH)

  • Serenade
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 40 (SCH)

Koechlin, Charles 

  • 14 Pieces pour Flute et Piano (SAL)

Meunier, Gerard

  • Berceuse pour Vincent (LEM)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Allegro from Flute Quartet in C major K. 285b
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 29 (SCH)

Oesten, Theodor (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Polonaise
    First Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 29 (SCH)

Prokofiev, Sergey (H. Voxmann, ed.)

  • Gavotte (Classical Symphony) (RUB)

Ravel, Maurice (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Pavane pour une enfante defunte
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Reichert, Mathieu-Andre 

  • Fantasie melancolique (Theme)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 2 (SUM)
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Saint-Saens, Camille (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Air de ballet d'Ascanio (Theme)
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

  • Le Cygne from Carnival of the Animals (Durand)

Schubert, Franz (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • Moment musical
    40 Little Pieces for Beginner Flutists no. 36 (SCH)

Schumann, Robert (L. Moyse, ed.)

  • *Romance
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

     

Level 2

Andersen, Karl Joachim 

  • Berceuse
    Five Songs Without Words op. 28, no. 1 (OUP)

  • Reverie
    Five Songs Without Words op. 28, no. 1 (OUP)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Bouree I & II (Suite no. 2 in b minor) BWV 1067 (INT)

  • Menuett I and II Sonata in C no. 4 BWV 1033 (CHE/HEN)

  • Rondeau (Suite no. 2 in b minor) BWV 1067 
    Album of 30 Classical Pieces vol. 2 (INT)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 5 (SUM)

  • Siciliano (Sonata no. 2 in E-flat major) BWV 1031 
    Album of 30 Classical Pieces vol. 1 (INT)

Borodin, Alexander 

  • Polovtsian Dance from "Prince Igor" (RUB)

Beethoven, Ludwig Van (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Polonaise from Flute Sonata in B-flat major
    Solos for the Flute Player no. 10 (SCH)

Clementi, Muzio (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Sonatina in C major
    Sonatinas for Young Flutists (SCH)

Diabelli, Anton 

  • Sonatina in C major (OTT)

Elgar, Edward 

  • Chanson de Matin op. 15, no. 2
    My Favorite Encores (SOU)

Handel, George Frideric (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Gavotte (Sonata in C major) op. 1, no. 7
    Solos for the Flute Player no. 5 (SCH)

Hindemith, Paul 

  • Echo (OTT)

Honegger, Arthur 

  • Romance
    Contemporary French Recital Pieces vol. 1 (INT)

Jacob, Gordon 

  • Cradle song
    Flute Solos vol. 2 (CHE)

Koechlin, Charles 

  • 14 Pieces pour Flute et Piano (SAL)

Kuhlau, Friedrich (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Andante
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

Mann, Leslie 

  • Five Improvisations (CMC)

Mendelssohn, Felix 

  • On wings of song
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 2, no. 8 (SUM)

  • Andante espressivo
    First Solos for the Flute Player (SCH)

  • The shepherd's song
    My favorite Encoures (SOU)

Purcell, Henry 

  • Air and Hornpipe (ALL)

Telemann, Georg Philipp 

  • Rejouissance Suite in a minor (PET/MOE)

Vivaldi, Antonio 

  • Sonata in F major (INT)

Nielsen, Carl 

  • The children are playing (CHE)

Reger, Max 

  • Romance (BR&)

Schumann, Robert (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • May, sweet May
    Solos for the Flute Player no. 11 (SCH)

Level 3

Andersen, Karl Joachim 

  • Scherzino op. 55, no. 6 (BEL)
    Concert and Contest Collection (RUB)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Polonaise (include Double) and Badinerie (Suite no. 2 in b minor) BWV 1067
    Suzuki flute School vol. 6 (SUM)
    Concert and Contest Collection (RUB)

Baliff, Claude 

  • Chant de l'Innocent (EMT)

Bizet 

  • Minuet from L'Arlesienne
    Concert & Contest Collection (RUB)

  • Carmen (Entr'acte from Act III) (Musicus)

Blavet, Michel 

  • Sonata no. 1 (L'Henriette) (ALL)

Bozza, Eugene 

  • Aria (LED)

  • Cinq chansons sur des themes Japonais (LED)

Donizetti, Gaetano (W. Bennett, ed.) 

  • Andante sostenuto
    My favorite Encoures (SOU)

Doppler, Franz 

  • Berceuse (SOU)

Drigo, Riccardo 

  • Serenade
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 3 (SUM)

Faure, Gabriel 

  • Piece (LED)

  • Sicilienne (INT)

Glick, Srul Irving 

  • Petite suite (GVT)

Handel, George Frideric 

  • Sonata in a minor Hallenser no. 1 (BAE/PET)

  • Sonata in F op. 1, no. 11 (BAE/ALL)

  • Sonata in g minor op. 1, no. 2 (BAE/ALL)

Ibert, Jacques 

  • Aria (LED)

Krommer, Franz Vincenz (Wastall, ed.) 

  • Adagio
    Romantic Music for Flute (B&H)

Kuhlau, Friedrich (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Sonatina

  • Album of Sonatinas (SCH)

Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste 

  • Sonata in e minor (ALL)

Marcello, Benedetto 

  • Sonata in F (INT)

Mouquet, Jules (Lemoine, ed.) 

  • Cinq Pieces Breves (LEM)

Pepusch, Johann Christoph (L. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Sonata in F
    Flute Music of the Baroque (SCH)

Pessard, Emile 

  • Andalouse
    Concert and Contest Collection (RUB)

Schickhardt, Johann Christian 

  • Sonata in a minor op. 17, no. 3
    Flotenmusic vol. 1 (Baroque) (HEN)

Stanley 

  • Eight Solos for FLute, Op. 1 (PET)

Telemann, Georg Philipp 

  • Sonata in F (INT)

Zuckert, Leon 

  • Little Spanish dance (JAY)

 

Level 4

Aitken, Robert 

  • Icicle for solo flute (EMT)

Applebaum, Louis 

  • Essay for solo flute (GVT)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Sonata in E flat BWV 1031 no. 2 (CHE/HEN)

  • Sonata in g minor BWV 1020 no. 7 INT/LED/HEN

Baker, Michael C. 

  • Sonata (SOU)

Barber, Samuel 

  • Canzone (SCH)

Blavet, Michel 

  • Sonata (La Lumagne)
    Flotenmusik vol. 1 (Baroque) (HEN/ALL)

Bodinus, Sebastian 

  • Caprice in gigue for solo flute (BAE)

Busser, Henri Paul 

  • Les cygnes et les ecureuils (LED)

Caplet, Andre 

  • Reverie et petite valse (INT)

Couperin, Francois 

  • Le rossignol en amour
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 4 (SUM)

Evans, Robert 

  • Thoronet for solo flute (CMC)

Faure, Gabriel 

  • Morceau de concours (BRO)

Freedman, Harry 

  • Soliloquy (LEE)

Fukushima, Kazuo 

  • Requiem (ZER)

Gaubert, Philippe 

  • Madrigal (INT/ENO)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald 

  • Minuet and dance of the blessed spirits (BET/RUB)

Godard, Benjamin

  • Allegretto and Idylle
    Suite de Trois Morceaux (CHE/SOU)

Handel, George Frideric 

  • Sonata in b minor op. 1, no. 9 (BAE/ALL)

  • Sonata in C op. 1, no. 7 (BAE/ALL)

  • Sonata in G op. 1, no. 5 (BAE/ALL)

Heiden, Bernard 

  • Sonatina (AMP)

Keetbaas, Dirk, Jr. 

  • Three miniatures for solo flute (JAY)

Kuhlau, Friedrich 

  • Grand solo no. 1 op. 57 (BIL)

Leclair, Jean-Marie 

  • Sonata in G op. 9, no. 7 (OTT)

Locatelli, Pietro Antonio 

  • Sonata in F (HUG)

Mozart, W. A. 

  • Andante in C (BR&/ALL)

Ravel, Maurice 

  • Piece en forme de habanera (LED)

Saint-Saens, Camille 

  • Romance (DUR)

Schumann, Robert 

  • Three romances (INT)

Stamitz, Johann 

  • Capriccio-Sonata in A for solo flute (BR&)

Telemann, Georg Philipp 

  • Fantasia no. 8 for solo flute

  • Fantasia no. 9 for solo flute
    Twelve Fantasias (BAE/INT)

Vivaldi, Anonio 

  • Sonata no. 6
    Six Sonatas (Il Pastor Fido) (BAE/INT)

Woodall, Albert 

  • Serenade
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 3 (SUM)

List of Publishers

  • ALL Rudall Carte

  • AMA Amadeus

  • AMP Associated Music Publishers

  • B&H Boosey & Hawkes

  • BAE Barenreiter Verlag

  • BEL Belwin Mills

  • BER Berandol

  • BET Cundy-Bettony

  • BIL Billaudot

  • BR& Breitkopf & Hartel

  • BRO Broude Brothers

  • BVP Broeckmans & Van Poppel

  • CHE J. & W. Chester Ltd.

  • CMC Canadian Music Centre

  • COL Colfranc

  • CPE Clemont Pepin Editions

  • DBM Les Editions Doberman, Inc.

  • DON Donemus

  • DUR Durand & Cie

  • EAS Aeneas Publications

  • EMB Editio Musica Budapest

  • EME Emerson

  • EMT Editions Musicales Transatlantiques

  • ENO Enoch

  • FHP Falls House Press

  • FIS Carl Fischer, Inc.

  • GIR Arsenio Girón, Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canda

  • GVT Gordon V. Thompson, Ltd.

  • HEN G. Henle Verlag

  • HEU Heugel

  • HIN Hinrichsen

  • HUG Hug

  • INT International Music Co.

  • JAY Jamar

  • JOB Jobert

  • KEN Kendor

  • LED Leduc

  • LEE Leeds Music

  • LEM Lemoine

  • LEU Leuckart

  • MCA MCA and Mill/MCA Joint Venture Editions

  • MIL Mills Music

  • MOE Moeck

  • OTT B. Schotts Sohne

  • OUP Oxford University Press

  • PET Edition Peters

  • PIP Piper Press

  • POP Papagena Pres

  • RIC G. Ricordi & Co.

  • RUB Rubank

  • SAL Editions Francis Salabert

  • SAM Samfunder

  • SCH G. Schirmer Inc.

  • SIK Sikorski

  • SOU Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc.

  • SUM Summy-Birchard, Inc.

  • UMP United Music Publishers

  • UNI Universal Edition

  • WAT Waterloo Music Co., Ltd.

  • ZEN Zen-On

  • ZER Zerboni

  • ZIM Zimmermann

Level 5

Bach, C.P.E. 

  • Sonata in G major (Hamburg) H564 (OTT)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Sonata no. 3 in A BWV 1032 (CHE/HEN)

  • Sonata no. 4 in C BWV 1033 (CHE/HEN)

Blavet, Michel 

  • Sonata in d minor (La Vibray) (ALL)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 4 (SUM)

Csillag, Pierre 

  • Sonatina for flute and piano (FHP)

Chopin, Fryderyk 

  • Variations on a theme of Rossini (INT)

Debussy, Claude 

  • Syrinx for solo flute (JOB/CHE)

Devienne, Francois 

  • Sonata in D (INT)

Donizetti, Gaetano 

  • Concertino (PET)

Faure, Garbriel 

  • Morceau de concours (Bourne)

Fukushima, Kazuo 

  • Mei for solo flute (ZER)

Ganne, Louis 

  • Andante and Scherzo
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix 

  • The Shepherd's Song
    My Favorite Encores (SOU)

Gaubert, Philippe 

  • Sicilienne (Heugel)

Genin, Pierre-Agricole 

  • Carnival of Venice (BIL/CHE)
    Suzuki Flute School vol. 5 (SUM)

Giron, Arsenio 

  • Sonata for flute and piano (GIR)

Handel, George Frideric 

  • Sonata in e minor op. 1, no. 1b (BAE/ALL)

Haydn, Franz Joseph 

  • Concerto in D (INT)

  • Sonata in G major (Peters)

Hindemith, Paul 

  • Acht Stucke (OTT)

Honegger, Arthur 

  • Danse de la chevre (SAL)

Ibert, Jaques 

  • Aria (LED)

Kuhlau, Friedrich 

  • Introduction and Rondon sur "Le colporteur de Onslow" (BIL)

Luening 

  • Suite No. 1 for Flute Alone (Galaxy)

Loeillet 

  • Sonatas, Op. 3 (SCH)

Marais, Marin 

  • Les Folies d'Espagne for solo flute (BAE)

Martinon, Jean 

  • Sonatine (BIL)

Pentland, Barbara 

  • Sonatina for solo flute (CMC)

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista 

  • Concerto in G (INT)

Reinecke, Carl 

  • Ballade (ZIM)

Roussel, Albert 

  • Krishna

  • M. de la Pejaudie

  • Pan

  • Tityre

  • Joueurs de Flute (DUR)

Saint-Saens, Camille 

  • Airs de ballet d'Ascanio (DUR)

Schafer, R. Murray 

  • Sonatina for flute and harpsichord or piano (BER)

Simeonov 

  • Scherzino (Harris)

Somers, Harry 

  • Etching
    The vollard Suite (RIC)

Stamitz, Johann 

  • Concerto in G (INT)

Telemann, Georg Philipp 

  • Fantasia for solo flute nos. 2, 3, 6, 12
    Twelve Fantasias (BAE/INT)

Veracini 

  • Sonatas (B&H)

Vaughan-Williams, Ralph Von 

  • Suite de ballet (OUP)

Level 6

Bartok, Bela 

  • Suite paysanne hongroise (UNI)

Bach, C.P.E. 

  • Sonata in a minor for solo flute H. 562 (AMA/INT)

  • Sonata in B flat op. 130 (ZIM)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Sonata in b minor BWV 1030 (CHE/HEN)

  • Sonata in E BWV 1035 (CHE/HEN)

  • Suite no. 2 in b minor BWV 1067 (PET/SCH)

Beethoven, Ludwig Van 

  • Ten Themes with Variations (Belwin Mills)

Bedard, Denis 

  • Sonate (DBM)

Beecroft, Norma 

  • Tre pezzi brevi (UNI)

Benda, Franz 

  • Concerto in e minor (OTT)

Bennett, Richard Rodney 

  • Winter music (MIL)

Blavet, Michel 

  • Concerto in a minor (INT)

  • Sonata No. 4 La lumagne (Fischer)

Bloch, Ernst 

  • Suite modale (Broude)

Boccherini, Luigi 

  • Concerto in D op. 27 (LEU/INT)

Bolling, Claude 

  • Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (Silhouette Music Corp.)

Chaminade, Cecile 

  • Concertino (FIS)
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

Couperin, Francois 

  • Concert royal no. 4 (INT)

Doppler, Franz 

  • Fantasie pastorale hongroise (CHE/FIS)

Enescu, George 

  • Cantabile and Presto (INT)
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

Faure, Gabriel 

  • Fantasie (CHE/INT)
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

Gaubert, Philippe 

  • Nocturne and allegro scherzando (INT)
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

  • Romance (LED)

Hetu, Jacques 

  • Aria op. 27 (DBM)

Hindemith, Paul 

  • Sonata (OTT)

Hoover, Kathryn 

  • Kokopeli (POP)

  • Medieval Suite (POP)

Hue, Georges-Adolphe 

  • Fantasie (BIL)

Ibert, Jacques 

  • Piece for solo flute (LED)

  • Jeux (LED)

Jones, Kelsey 

  • Rondo for solo flute (WAT)

Leclair, Jean-Marie 

  • Concerto in C op. 7, no. 3 (INT)

Martinu, Bohuslav 

  • First sonata (AMP)

Milhaud, Darius 

  • Sonatine (DUR)

Pepin, Clermont 

  • Quatre monodies pour flute seule (CPE)

Poulenc, Francis 

  • Sonata (CHE)

Quantz, Johann Joachim 

  • Concerto in G (BR&/INT)

Reinecke, Carl 

  • Sonata (Undine) (INT)

Taffanel, Paul 

  • Andante pastoral & Scherzettino (INT)
    Flute Music by French Composers (SCH)

Telemann, Georg Philipp 

  • Concerto a cinque in D (SIK)

  • Sonata in f minor (INT)

  • Suite in a minor (MOE/PET/HIN)

Tulou, Jean-Louis (M. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Grand solo no. 13
    The Golden Age of the Flutists vol.1 (ZEN/BIL)

  • Grand solo no. 5
    The Golden Age of the Flutists vol. 2 (ZEN/BIL)

Varese, Edgard 

  • Density 21.5 for solo flute (RIC/COL)

Vivier, Claude 

  • Piece pour flute et piano (DBM)

Weinzweig, John 

  • Divertimento 1 (B&H)

Level 7

Arnold, Malcolm 

  • Concerto (Boosey)

Aitken, Robert 

  • Plainsong for solo flute (UNI)

Bach, C.P.E. 

  • Concerto in d minor (LEU/INT)

Bach, J.S. 

  • Partita in a minor for solo flute BWV 1013 (BAE)

  • Sonata no. 5 in e minor BWV 1034 (CHE/HEN)

Badings, Henk 

  • Capriccio (DON)

Berkeley 

  • Sonata (Chester)

Boehm, Theobald (M. Moyse, ed.) 

  • Air varie de la Molinara "Nel cor piu"
    The Golden Age of the Flutists vol. 2 (ZEN)

Bozza, Eugene 

  • Image for solo flute (LED)

Burton, Eldin 

  • Sonatina (FIS)

Coulthard 

  • Lyric Sonatina (Waterloo)

Copland, Aaron

  • Duo for Flute and Piano (B&H)

Damase, Jean-Michel

  • Scherzo (LEM)

  • Serenade (LEM)

Dohnanyi, Ernst Von

  • Passacaglia for solo flute (BRO)

Doppler, Franz 

  • Airs valaques (EME)

Dutilleux, Henri 

  • Sonatine (LED)

Farroud, Pierre-Octave 

  • Trois pieces (SAL)

Francaix, Jean

  • Divertimento pour Flute et Piano (SCH)

Frank, Cesar

  • Sonata (ZER/INT)

Gordelli, Otar

  • Concerto (PIP)

Griffes, Charles T.

  • Poem (SCH)

Hanson, Howard 

  • Serenade (Fischer)

Hetu, Jacques 

  • Quatre pieces pour flute et piano (BIL)

Ibert, Jacques 

  • Concerto (LED)

Jolivet, Andre 

  • Chant de Linos (LED)

  • Cinq incantations (B&H)

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid 

  • Impressions exotiques op. 134 (ZIM)

Kenins, Talivaldis 

  • Concertante (B&H)

Martin, Frank 

  • Ballade (UNI)

Mercadante, Saverio 

  • Concerto in e minor op. 57 (ZER)

Messiaen, Oliver 

  • Le merle noir (LED)

Milhaud, Darius 

  • Sonatine (DUR)

Morawetz, Oskar

  • Sonata (EAS/CMC)

Mozart, W.A.

  • Concerto in G K. 313 (BR&)

  • Concerto in D K. 314 (BR&)

Mucynski, Robert

  • Sonata (SCH)

Nielsen, Carl

  • Concerto (SAM)

Piston, Walter

  • Sonata (AMP)

Prokofiev, Sergey

  • Sonata (MCA/SIK)

Quantz, Johann Joachim

  • Concerto in D ("pour Potsdam")(INT)

Pergolesi

  • Concerto in G (Boosey)

Piston, Walter

  • Sonata (SCH)

Reinecke, Carl 

  • Concerto in D op. 283 (BR&)

Rodrigo, Joaquin

  • Concierto pastoral (OTT)

Sancan, Pierre

  • Sonatine (DUR)

Schubert, Franz

  • Introduction & Variations on "Trockne Blumen" (OTT/UNI/BR&)

Sigurbjornsson, Thorkell

  • Kalais for solo flute (UNI)

Stevens

  • Sonatina (Broude)

Taffanel Paul

  • Fantasie sur le "Freischutz"
    The Golden Age of the Flutists vol. 1 (ZEN)

  • Grande fantasie on themes from "Mignon" (SOU)

Tremblay, Gilles

  • Envol-Alleluia pour flute seule (SAL)

Widor, Charles-Marie

  • Suite op. 34 (HEU/PIP)​

 

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