Quartets

This section contains selected rare published editions of quartets with flute in the Music Division's collections:

Titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog when available.

Quartets with Flute

Selected list of rare scores and parts for flute with three other performers.

Trois quatuors pour flûte, violon, alto et violoncelle concertans : œuvre 42 by Johann Andreas Amon
Call Number: M462 .A5 op. 42 1806 Case
Published/Created: 1806
Four parts for flute, violin, viola, and cello. Offenbach s/M: J. André. 1806. Publisher’s plate no. 2285.
Four Quartettos, op. 19 by Johann Christian Bach
Call Number: M462 .B22 op. 19 (Case)
Published/Created: circa 1785
Parts for four quartets: "two for two flutes, a tenor, and violoncello; one for two flutes, a violin, and violoncello, and one for a flute & hoboy, or two flutes, a tenor & violoncello. Opera xix." London: J. Preston, circa 1785.
Six quatuors concertants pour flute, violon, alto et violoncelle by Johann Christian Bach; Karl Friedrich Abel; Nicolas Joseph Chartrain
Call Number: M60.S63 CASE
Published/Created: 1776
Parts for flute, violin, viola, and cello. Collection of works by Johann Christian Bach, Karl Friedrich Abel, and Nicolas Joseph Chartrain. Paris: Berault, 1776.
Trois quatuors concertans, pour flûte, violon, alto & violoncelle, oeuvre 62 by François Devienne
Call Number: ML30.4c no. 1632 Miller
Published/Created: circa 1814
Parts for Quartets, op. 62 for flute, violin, viola, and cello. Plate no. 3394. Part of the Dayton C. Miller Collection.

Selected list of rare scores and parts for standard flute quartet instrumentation (four flutes), including all auxiliary instruments.

Quartetto, for four flutes, op. 12 by Anton Reicha
Call Number: ML30.4c no. 1233 Miller
Published/Created: 1820s
Four parts for Quartet in D major, op. 12. London: Monzani & Hill, 1820s. Part of the Dayton C. Miller Collection.
Adagio et scherzando : pour quatre flûtes, op. 77 by Adolphe François Wouters
Call Number: ML30.4c no. 913 Miller
Published/Created: circa 1900
Score and parts. Part of the Dayton C. Miller Collection.