New for Flute and Clarinet: Hoffmeister's Duet "Sonata in D minor"

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Dec. 20, 2017 - PRLog -- Noteworthy Sheet Music, LLC (NSM) is an online sheet music publishing enterprise with a catalog of >150 editions, most of which are unavailable from other sources.  NSM specializes in, but is not limited to, sheet music for flute and alto flute.  They offer original contemporary works by distinguished composers, facsimile editions of rare historical scores, and unique transcriptions of pieces from the classical repertoire.  Selected NSM publications are offered as professionally-printed hard copy versions, and most of NSM's catalog listings are available as convenient pdf downloads from the NSM website.  Visit www.NoteworthySheetMusic.com for additional information about the new release mentioned below and other NSM editions.  New sheet music selections are uploaded often, along with preview pages, contributing composer biographies, useful links, reviews and articles.

Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754-1812) was a German music publisher and prolific composer.  Born in Rothenburg am Neckar, he studied law in Vienna, but after becoming captivated by the music scene in that city he devoted the rest of his life to music.  Hoffmeister founded his own successful music publishing firms, first in Vienna and later in Leipzig, issuing works by such prominent composers as Beethoven and Mozart, among many others.  After returning to Vienna, he dedicated himself fully to writing music.  His compositional output includes 9 operas, over 66 symphonies and overtures, 150 string quartets, numerous pieces for piano, and a great many compositions for flute, including concertos and chamber works.

Noteworthy Sheet Music published an edition of the Sonata in D minor, Duo 3 from Hoffmeister's Trois Duos pour Deux Flûtes, Op.50, after being contacted by flutist Richard A. Evans.  Years ago, Mr. Evans had located several editions of 18^th and 19^th century flute duets, long since out of print, at the Library of Congress.  Finding them quite enjoyable to play, and believing them undeserving of their current obscurity, he and his music colleague Bronnie Stroud took the initiative of re-typesetting and editing the pieces using a modern music notation software program.  The folks at NSM agreed that these works should be made more readily available to present-day musicians and audiences, and published them after making only minor stylistic and formatting revisions to Mr. Evans' scores and parts; the articulation and dynamic markings are those suggested by Mr. Evans.

Aware of the paucity of repertoire available for flute and clarinet duo, and realizing these pieces would work nicely for that instrument pair as well, as first pointed out by Mr. Evans, NSM is also publishing editions of several of these flute-flute duets as works for flute and clarinet, with the second flute parts transcribed for B-flat clarinet.  Hoffmeister's Sonata in D minor, Op.50, Duo 3 is the first to become available; the PDF, including both score and parts edited by Mr. Evans, can be downloaded from the NSM website.  For additional information and to preview a page of the score, check out the flute and clarinet duet listing at https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/sheet-music/ensemble-tags/winds/568-hoffmeister-sonata-in-d-minor-flute-and-clarinet.  You can also browse the website for other repertoire of interest either by searching from the drop-down menus by instrument or ensemble or by perusing the online catalog (https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/sheet-music/category...).