Flute Sonatas

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In 1700, Corelli published his 12 violin sonatas in Rome. A veritable revolution in violin technique, they won the admiration of eminent composers (Bach, Dandrieu, Couperin) and greatly influenced the French (Francoeur, Leclair, Senaille, Quentin), who were to try their hand at this virtuoso and brilliant Italian style. At the end of the 1730s, the first six sonatas of op.5 were "adapted to the transverse flute with the bass" by a Parisian publisher.