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REPERTOIRE  

 

Selected repertoire

 

 

Piccolo in the orchestra

Georg Friedrich Handel Rinaldo (1711), Water music (for “flauto piccolo”) (1715)
Antonio Vivaldi Concerti per flautino
Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Indes galantes (1735), Dardanus (1739)
Willibald Gluck Iphigenie en Tauride (1779)
Wolfgang A. Mozart The Magic Flute (Monostatos-aria) (1791)
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonies 5, 6 and 9, Egmont-Overture
Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischütz (1821)
Gasparo Spontini Bacchanal of the Danaids
Johann Strauss Perpetuum mobile (piccolo solo)
Hector Berlioz Grand Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (1840)
Giuseppe Verdi Requiem (1874), Rigoletto (1851)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade (1888)
Richard Strauss Salome (1905), „Alpensymphonie“ (1915)
Claude Debussy La Mer (1903–1905)
Gustav Mahler 2nd symphony (prominent solo for piccolo)
Dmitri Shostakovitch 8th symphony (1943)
Benjamin Britten Young People's Guide for the Orchestra (1946)
Oliver Messiaen Saint Francois d’Assise (opera, 3 piccolos) (1974–82)

Chamber music and solo repertoire

Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot lunaire (1912), Chamber symphony (1907)
Galina Ustwolskaya Dona nobis pacem (trio for piccolo, tuba and piano)
Thea Musgrave Piccolo play (piccolo and piano)