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Introduction of the flute into the orchestraThe flute and piccolo as used by the great composersBachHis obligatosHandelHis flauto-piccoloFlute and organGluckHaydnThe CreationSymphoniesMozartDisliked the fluteSymphoniesSerenadesOperasConcertosBeethovenHis famous flute passagesWeberMeyerbeerPiccolo passagesItalian operatic composersWilliam Tell overtureMendelssohnMidsummer Night's DreamSymphoniesOratoriosSchubertSchumannUse by modern composersBerliozFlute and HarpBrahmsDvǒrákThe Spectre's BrideCadenzasGriegBizet's CarmenSullivanThe Golden LegendColeridge-TaylorWagnerTschaikowskyR. StraussPassages of extreme difficulty.

flute is the leader of the wood-wind, and if judiciously used is one of the most telling instruments, and is capable of producing a great variety of effects. The earliest representations of an orchestra rarely include a flute or any kind, but one in a Breviary of the fifteenth century, now in the Brussels Library, contains two flutes-à-bec. Fifes and a flute were included in a band which played instrumental intermezzi at a performance of Ariosto's Suppositi before Pope Leo at the Vatican